· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 239 grants below total $13,776,797 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $15,972,376 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,195,579 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $166k
- $10k–50k145 grants · $3.6M
- $50k–250k62 grants · $5.7M
- $250k+9 grants · $4.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| WEST VIRGINIA CIVIC LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE INC | $250,000 |
| THE LEWISBURG FOUNDATION 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 |
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 (FY17–24, $7.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% 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 +34% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
262 repeat relationships — 172 still active in FY2024, 90 since wound down; 57 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC7× · 2017–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +13%
- WVWEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +0%
- GVGREENBRIER VALLEY AQUATIC CENTER4× · 2019–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +77% · 76% of their budget
Funded once
- WVWEST VIRGINIA LOCAL HEALTH INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -88%
- WVWV VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS ACTIVE IN DISASTER INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -99%
- COCITY OF CHARLESTON PARKS AND RECREATIONone grant, 2017 · $100k
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.
To improve the health and health care quality for the residents of west virginia.
The wvhii is a statewide collaboration among multiple stakeholders focusing on improving the health and health care of the citizens of west virginia.
The west virginia chamber of commerce provides opportunities for broad based prosperity throughout west virginia.
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
The organization provides training and technical assistance to water and wastewater utility providers throughout the State of West Virginia through a variety of programs.
The west virginia rural health association (wvrha) advocates for empowering all west virginians to advance their quality of life, their well-being, and their access to excellence in rural health care. our mission is to unite people,…
Communityworks in west virignia (cwwv) creates housing and community development solutions for all west virginians through a network of member organizations. cwwv carries out its mission by providing effective training and technical…
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.
Central west virginia community action association, inc.s mission is to provide pathways to economic independence for all families by leading community initiatives that address the root causes of poverty.
Generation wv is the statewide organization dedicated to attracting, retaining, and advancing young talent in the mountain state. generation west virginia equips young west virginians with key skills and career opportunities, ensuring…
The west virginia jobs creator alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting policy initiatives that encourage and support job creators throughout the state. our mission is to spearhead policy concepts that lead to the…
WVASF coordinates research, education, advocacy, and coalition building on issues related to asset building and economic stability.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Virginia Civic Leadership Initiative Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lucky Penny. 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 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
267 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 267 of the 407 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA HEALTH RIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds GREENBRIER VALLEY AQUATIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Greenbrier Community School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENBRIER VALLEY RESTORATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds GREENBRIER REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC ↗
- Who funds KANAWHA HOSPICE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds Lewisburg Foundation Incorporated ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GREENBRIER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CABIN CREEK HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALDERSON BROADDUS UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA MEAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER GREENBRIER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds STEP BY STEP INC ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE HALL INC ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF KANAWHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KANAWHA VALLEY COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF WEST V ↗
- Who funds BUCKSKIN COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GREENBRIER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds New River Health Association Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE GREENBRIER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HIGH ROCKS EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO 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: Tgkvf Inc · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington West Virginia · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · The Daywood Foundationinc · Hollowell Dawkins Foundation Inc · The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation · The Jeanne G Hamilton and Lawson W Hamilton Jr Family Foundation Inc · Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · Milan Puskar Foundation Inc
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 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.