· Private foundation
The John and Lucille Pianfetti 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of THE JOHN AND LUCILLE PIANFETTI FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE TAMARACK FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| Holler Health | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON | $25,000 |
| EXPERIENCE LEARNING | $25,000 |
| COALFIELD DEVELOPMENT | $25,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA HEALTH RIGHT | $25,000 |
| Mountaineer Food Bank | $18,530 |
| FAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA | $15,000 |
| APPALACHIAN EXPEDITIONS | $14,200 |
| CHARLESTON DISTANCE RUN FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Ken Ellis Memorial Park | $8,000 |
| Warner Drive-In Cultural Resource C | $7,500 |
| Celtic Arts Foundation | $6,000 |
| THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION | $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 (FY25–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
31 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- CDCOALFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +481%
- TFTAMARACK FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +92%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC9× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- PCPendleton County Farmers Marketone grant, 2023 · $3k
- BABELOVED ASHEVILLE DISASTER RELIEFone grant, 2024 · $2k
- UUUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATIONone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
Appalachian investment corporation works to increase economic activity in the appalachian counties of kentucky.
To help local farms thrive, link farmers to markets and supporters, and build healthy communities through connections to local food.
Restoring and conserving our Appalachian forests through education and stewarship.
Strengthening philanthropy in the mountain state.
Backroads of appalachia is a non-profit organization with a mission to provide new economic opportunities within the communities of eastern kentucky and southwest virginia.
The mission of the WVU Foundation is to enrich the lives of those touched by West Virginia University by maximizing charitable support and providing services to the University, its students and affiliated organizations.
Appalachian voices brings people together to protect the land, air, and water of central and southern appalachia and advance a just transition to a generative and equitable clean energy economy.
Job training and development
Provide education and grassroots advocacy about issues of importance to lgbt west virginians.
The mission of vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.
The organization is a community based economic development entity serving the 32 counties of appalachia ohio. its mission is to build the capacity of appalachian communities to network, work together and innovate to create a dynamic…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yew Mountain Center and the most unlike its peers is Coalfield Development Corporation. 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 24 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 43 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 WEST VIRGINIA HEALTH RIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds COALFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TAMARACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Expeditions Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSIDE TRACK INC ↗
- Who funds CELTIC ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YOUTH SCIENCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YEW MOUNTAIN CENTER ↗
- Who funds Mountain Laurel Learning Cooperative ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds FACING HUNGER FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN OUTREACH 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: Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation · Milan Puskar Foundation Inc · The Burke & Herbert Bank Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving 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 John and Lucille Pianfetti 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.