· Private foundation
The Banford & Terri Exley Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WHEELING SYMPHONY SOCIETY | $3,900 |
| THE PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST | $2,500 |
| OGLEBAY INSTITUTE | $1,260 |
| VALLEY HOSPICE | $1,200 |
| FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES | $850 |
| OGLEBAY FOUNDATION | $750 |
| FOXFIRE FILM FESTIVAL | $375 |
| WHEELING HEALTH RIGHT | $300 |
| PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER | $300 |
| LINSLY SCHOOL | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| SOUP KITCHEN OF GREATER WHEELING | $250 |
| COMMUNITY FDN FOR THE OHIO VALLEY | $200 |
| FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF MOUNDSVILLE | $150 |
| FRIENDS OF WV PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $150 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $300) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- PCPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +174%
- WSWHEELING SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +28%
- VHVALLEY HOSPICE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- RCROTARY CLUB OF WHEELINGone grant, 2024 · $500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $200 · revenue +26%- WNWHEELING NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA CORPORATIONone grant, 2024 · $200 · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
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Valley healthcare system shall improve our community's health by delivering the highest quality behavioral healthcare guided by our consumer's needs.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hilliard Food Pantry Plus. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds WHEELING SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds OGLEBAY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELING HEALTH RIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUP KITCHEN OF GREATER WHEELING INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE LINSLY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CONSUMER REPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WV PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WHEELING INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS ZOOLOGICAL PARK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SEEING HAND ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hilliard Food Pantry Plus ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELING NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds HILLIARD DARBY ATHLETIC BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ALPHA CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Stamp 2001 Charitable Fund · Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation · Raymond A & Gertrude D Hyer Foundation · Hess Family Foundation · Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · The Driehorst Family Foundation · Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust · Helen J Prince Foundation Security National Trust Co Trustee · August J & Thelma S Hoffmann Foundation · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Stamp Charitable Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Banford & Terri Exley Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.