· Private foundation
The Driehorst Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $197k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OGLEBAY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| AUGUSTA LEVY LEARNING CENTER | $30,000 |
| BETHANY COLLEGE | $22,000 |
| WHEELING SYMPHONY SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| MARSHALL COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE | $15,000 |
| WHEELING COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| RUSSELL NESBITT SERVICES | $15,000 |
| KINGS DAUGHTERS CHILD CARE CENTER | $10,000 |
| WV INDEPENDENT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ORCHARD PARK HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| WHEELING HEALTH RIGHT | $10,000 |
| Q | $10,000 |
| THE LINSLY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NEWBRIDGE ACADEMY FOR KIDS | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 6 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
- OFOGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $440k · revenue +284%
- BCBETHANY COLLEGE7× · 2018–2025 · $202k · revenue +7%
- MCMARSHALL COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE8× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- OVOHIO VALLEY RECOVERY INCone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -51%
- OIOGLEBAY INSTITUTE - GLASS MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $18k
- FSFAMILY SERVICE - UPPER OHIO VALLEY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +25%
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.
Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv
Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…
Valley healthcare system shall improve our community's health by delivering the highest quality behavioral healthcare guided by our consumer's needs.
Mission is to promote and advocate for the welfare of people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities.
The westchester institute for human development (wihd) creates better futures for people with disabilities, for vulnerable children, and for their families and caregivers. wihd accomplishes its mission through professional education,…
Valley Residential Services provides personalized support in safe, comfortable home environments for developmentally disabled individuals, residences for veterans with rehabilitation opportunities, and family assistance services.
Full-service animal shelter, animal care, adoptive services, humane investigaation services and humane education.
The mission of ohio valley goodwill industries rehabilitation center, inc. is to provide vocational rehabilitation, training, and employment services to individuals with either disabilities or social and economic barriers to full employment
The purpose of the corporation as defined in the certificate of incorporation is to provide nursing home accommodations for sick, invalid, infirm, disabled or convalescent persons of low income and to this end, to plan, construct, erect,…
St john's home for children is a leader in delivering innovative and therapeutic services, in collaboration with our community partners and resources, to promote healing and growth for our children and family prosperity and resilience.
Voluntary health & welfare
Assist individuals with developmental disabilities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Linsly School Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 60 years old; the field is 27. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 28 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 OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BETHANY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA LEVY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OGLEBAY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WHEELING SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELING COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RUSSELL NESBITT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE KING'S DAUGHTERS CHILD CARE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE LINSLY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELING HEALTH RIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds GROW OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE - UPPER OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS HOME OF WHEELING INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION CAREGIVERS 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: Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · Stamp 2001 Charitable Fund · Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust · W E Stone Foundation · Chris Hess Foundation · Raymond A & Gertrude D Hyer Foundation · Stamp Charitable Fund · Robert L& Helen E Levenson Family Charitable Tr · Vna Home Support Services Inc · Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation · Ann Sonneborn Charitable Foundation · Francis J and Edith Jackson Founda Security National Trust Company
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 Driehorst Family Foundation 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.
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