How much did THE GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

THE GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATION reported 239 grants totaling $15,972,376 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is THE GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATION based?

THE GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATION is based in WV.

THE GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATION

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· Community foundation

THE GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATION

THE GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATION is a philanthropic leader that helps donors, nonprofits, and other collaborative partners strengthen our community so all of the people and places we serve have the opportunity to thrive.

$16M

Granted FY2024

239

Grants

Communities

$829k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of THE GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

supportgeneralentrepreneurshipaffectedchildren's therapytherapy clinicresponsibilitygreenbrier

2019

band boostersfootball baseballplace-basedscottpersonssidelabor

2020

voaddisasterstrengtheningscottachievementlabordecent

2021

ledgersuppportbleeding disordersmanufacturingwvsompersonsachievement

2022

farmersmarketswvsomfacultyconferenceexpandbbbsts

2023

alsvoicesmediaeducatorstoolsbbbstsbrothers sisters

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 239 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k23 grants · $166k
$10k–50k145 grants · $3.6M
$50k–250k62 grants · $5.7M
$250k+9 grants · $4.4M

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$348M

Total assets

Largest grants

CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC$828,533
UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON$670,293
THE GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATION$628,918
CAMC FOUNDATION INC$616,794
GREENBRIER VALLEY AQUATIC CENTER$480,000
WEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$410,089
WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE$257,375
THE LEWISBURG FOUNDATION INC$250,000
WEST VIRGINIA CIVIC LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE INC$250,000
THE CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND SCIENCES OF WEST VIRGINIA$233,980
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$232,400
NEW VENTURE FUND$220,000
THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF KANAWHA COUNTY INC$200,000
STATE FAIR OF WEST VIRGINIA INC$200,000
WEST VIRGINIA HEALTH RIGHT INC$192,413

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $7.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 12%. 95% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$68M · 264 repeat orgs$4.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

264 repeat relationships — 170 still active in FY2024, 94 since wound down; 62 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

264

Total granted

$68M

$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

Still filing today

71%

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

UO
UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON
7× · 2017–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +16%
WV
WEST VIRGINIA HEALTH RIGHT INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +80%
WV
WEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +7%

Funded once

GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2017 · $428k · revenue -25%
COMMUNITY FOINDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC
one grant, 2017 · $428k · revenue -14%
WV
WEST VIRGINIA VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS ACTIVE IN DISASTER (WV VOAD)
one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -98%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

West Virginia University Hospitals Inc

WVU Hospitals exists to provide a quality healthcare system, including tertiary services, to the citizens of WV and the surrounding region.

Health

West Virginia University Medical Corporation

To support the West Virginia University School of Medicine in the furtherance of its charitable, scientific, and educational purposes.

Health

West Virginia United Health System Inc

West Virginia United Health System is committed to improving the health of the communities it serves through quality, cost effective health care services support of health professional training and research.

Health

West Virginia Community Voices Inc

To improve the health and health care quality for residents of west virginia.

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West Virginia Community Action Partnersh

West virginia community action partnership is an alliance of community action agencies that supports and strengthens our members, advocates for low-income and families and promotes partnerships.

Community Improvement

West Virginia Rural Water Association Inc

The organization provides training and technical assistance to water and wastewater utility providers throughout the State of West Virginia through a variety of programs.

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West Virginia Chamber of Commerce

To promote west virginia businesses and industries

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West Virginia Health Improvement

The wvhii is a statewide collaboration among multiple stakeholders focusing on improving the health and health care of the citizens of west virginia.

Health

West Virginia Statewide Independent

Established pursuant to federal and state legislation, the organization functions both independently and as a partner with the west virginia centers for independent living and the west virginia division of rehabilitation services (wvdrs)…

Human Services

West Virginia Rural Health Association

To advocate for empowering all west virginians to advance their quality of life, well-being, and access to excellence in rural health care.

Health

West Virginia University Alumni

Wvuaa provides life-long support of our alumni and friends and serves the interest of the university.

Education

Wayne County Community Services

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

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Greenbrier Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Young Life. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%10/374

the rest of the field

12%

399/3,203

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.

05the grantee network

263 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

250/263

Grantees still filing

181/263

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$33,255,502Education$13,392,522Human Services$8,180,138Arts & Culture$7,321,266Health$5,489,417Philanthropy$4,028,962Environment$1,573,500

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.

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.

Tgkvf IncWV163.7× affinity78 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tgkvf Inc · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · The Daywood Foundationinc · The Jeanne G Hamilton and Lawson W · Milan Puskar Foundation Inc · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation · United Way of the Greenbrier Valley Inc · Charles & Mary Fayne

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 organisation THE GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WV FOSTER ADOPTIVE & KINSHIP PARENTS NETWORK INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 862054833 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on WV FOSTER ADOPTIVE & KINSHIP PARENTS NETWORK INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

263 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation?

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THE GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

263 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation?

More from the funding graph