· Private foundation
The Huntington Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $255k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUNTINGTON MUSEUM OF ART | $35,000 |
| BUCKSKIN COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| HERITAGE FARM FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE TRI-STATE COMMUNITY | $25,000 |
| HUNTINGTON YMCA | $25,000 |
| RENEWALL | $15,000 |
| HUNTINGTON CITY MISSION | $15,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE TRI-STATE COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| HUNTINGTON MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| HUNTINGTON HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| APPALACHIAN CHILDREN'S MUSIC & ARTS FND | $9,000 |
| GREATER HUNTINGTON PARKS & RECREATION | $7,500 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD INSTITUTE OF HUNTINGTON | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $234k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Huntington Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in WV; read by stated purpose it is 93% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +62% since the first grant, against +61% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- KAKEITH ALBEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC6× · 2017–2023 · $525k · revenue ×12 · 38% of their budget
- HMHUNTINGTON MUSEUM OF ART INC5× · 2018–2024 · $437k · revenue +62%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (7015)5× · 2020–2024 · $193k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- MUMARSHALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINEone grant, 2020 · $60k
- BCBUCKSKIN COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTSone grant, 2018 · $56k
- CDCOALFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +101%
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.
Promote and advance decent, safe and sanitary housing for persons of low and moderate income, the elderly, disadvantaged or infirm, in the cabell- wayne counties and surrounding metropolitan area of west virginia.
The huntington regional chamber of commerce will be the business advocate and actively facilitate the development and promotion of an attractive business climate and workforce in cabell and wayne counties.
Provide direct financial support to agencies, organizations and governmental units in support of the fine arts in harrison county, wv
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…
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 mission of West Virginia University School of Medicine Charleston Division d/b/a West Virginia University Physicians of Charleston, is to support the West Virginia University School of Medicine & Improve the lives of our patients,…
For west virginia's future raises funds and provides technical assistance that help state and local non-profit organizations bring people together to support efforts to increase civic participation.
Strengthening philanthropy in the mountain state.
To provide quality services and support to children, families, and the early childhood community
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the River Cities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Clio Foundation. 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 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
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 54 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 KEITH ALBEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (7015) ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE FARM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds City of Huntington Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE TRI-STATE COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds FACING HUNGER FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds COALFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE RECOVERY POINT OF HUNTINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE RIVER CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds LILY'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Renewall Inc ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS DAY NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds Tri-State Fire School Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSION WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MOUNTWEST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds CABELL-HUNTINGTON COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL THERAPY CENTER 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: Pallottine Foundation of Huntington West Virginia · Foundation for the Tri-State Community Inc · Board of Trustees of Prichard Schoo · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Peoples Bank Foundation · United Way of the River Cities Inc · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Huntington Clinical Foundation Inc · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation
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 Huntington 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.
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