· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Holler Health | $30,000 |
| THE TAMARACK FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| EXPERIENCE LEARNING | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON | $25,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA HEALTH RIGHT | $25,000 |
| COALFIELD DEVELOPMENT | $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 |
| Friends of the Hot Springs Library | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain Laurel Learning Cooperative ↗
- Who funds FACING HUNGER FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN OUTREACH INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The John and Lucille Pianfetti Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John and Lucille Pianfetti Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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