· Private foundation
The McGee Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $526k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $160,000 |
| BLUEFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| GLENVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| SOUTHERN WV COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $66,203 |
| KANAWHA VALLEY COUNCIL ON PHILANTHROPY | $10,000 |
| PHILANTHROPY WEST VIRGINIA | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–21, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 3 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WVWEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $374k · revenue +137%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC3× · 2017–2019 · $125k · revenue +13%
- STSHOES THAT FIT3× · 2019–2021 · $115k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- CMCHARLESTON MAIN STREETS INCone grant, 2021 · $170k · revenue +20% · 82% of their budget
- WVWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $158k
- BSBLUEFIELD STATE COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $100k
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.
To foster, support, and assist in any research and economic development activities consistent with the educational objectives and mission of west virginia state university.
The west virginia chamber of commerce provides opportunities for broad based prosperity throughout west virginia.
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
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.
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
Provides seminary, under-graduate, graduate, doctoral, and other continuing education programs
The mission of wvicu is to advance collectively the interests of west virginia's independent colleges and universities and their students.
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.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 21 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 THE GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDHOOD LANGUAGE DISORDERS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON MAIN STREETS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
- Who funds SHOES THAT FIT ↗
- Who funds CAMC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY WEST VIRGINIA 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: Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Charles & Mary Fayne Glotfelty Foundation Inc · The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Herscher Foundation Inc · The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation · Tgkvf Inc · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The McGee Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McGee Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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