The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation

· Private foundation

The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation

Q: How much did The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation grant in FY2024?

The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $404,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Q: Where is The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation based?

The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation is based in WV.

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$405k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$100k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 91% of The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial 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

2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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2024

charlestonkanawhahealthchurch

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

03FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k25 grants · $87k
$10k–50k11 grants · $143k
$50k–250k2 grants · $175k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

CHARLESTON AREA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON$75,000
THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF KANAWHA COUNTY$25,000
University of Charleston - INNOVATIVE SCHOLARS$25,000
CODA MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC$12,500
WV CASA ASSOCIATION INC$10,000
SAINT MATTHEWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$10,000
WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER OF WEST VIRGINIA$10,000
NATIONAL YOUTH SCIENCE ACADEMY$10,000
CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV$10,000
WEST VIRGINIA HEALTH RIGHT$10,000
A NEW CLENDENIN$10,000
TGKVF - COMMUNITY INITIATIVE FUND$10,000
West Virginia University - INNOCENcE PROJECT$5,500
DAYMARK$5,000

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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 16%. 100% 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 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 Community Voices Inc

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

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West Virginia Dental Association

Promotion and advancement of dentistry in west virginia

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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 Senior Legal Aidinc

To provide free legal assistance for needy senior west virginians over 60 years old.

Philanthropy

Virginia Voice Inc

Provide reading service to individuals who are blind or have low vision.

Human Services

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 University Alumni

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

Education

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 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

Leadership West Virginia

Education and leadership development

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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 Coalition to End

A non-profit organization acting as an advocate for services to prevent and end homelessness in west virginia.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Virginia Health Right Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dr Groves B Smith Guardianship Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

20 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)

20/20

Grantees still filing

15/20

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,621,500Education$100,750Philanthropy$25,000Civil Rights$10,000Human Services$10,000Health$9,000Crime & Legal$3,750Arts & Culture$2,000

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.

The Greater Kanawha Valley FoundationWV45.9× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Tgkvf Inc · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation · The Daywood Foundationinc · Herscher Foundation Inc · Charles & Mary Fayne · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington · HB Wehrle Foundation Stephen D Wehrle TTEE · The Jeanne G Hamilton and Lawson W · Bernard McDonough 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 organisation The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial 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.

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⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

04Through 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: CODA MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +90% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 462699615 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 CODA MOUNTAIN ACADEMY 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

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
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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How do I get to The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

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 Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial 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?

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation?

More from the funding graph

The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial 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?

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation?

More from the funding graph