· Private foundation
The Pace Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $22,500 |
| CONCORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $21,000 |
| BIG GREEN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CHUCK MATHENA FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| PRINCETON SACRED HEART CHURCH | $4,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA | $4,000 |
| CROSS LANES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| MOUNTAIN MISSION | $2,000 |
| PRINCETON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUND | $2,000 |
| TENDER MERCIES MINISTRIES INC | $2,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WV | $2,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF PRINCETON WV | $2,000 |
| HEAVEN SENT MINISTRIES | $1,638 |
| SECOND CHANCE FOR CATS | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
35 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- MUMARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED9× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue +427%
- BGBIG GREEN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +69%
- CUCONCORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +439%
Funded once
- PRPRINCETON RESCUE SQUAD INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +42%
- TWTHOSE WHO SERVED WAR MUSEUMone grant, 2024 · $2k
- TTTHE THUNDER TRUST FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -72%
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.
The prevention of cruelty to animals through pet adoption, education, and spay/neuter programs within the community of mercer county, kentucky.
To provide housing, food and religious counseling for the needy and underprivileged.
Shelter service for abused women and children in mingo and logan counties in west virginia.
To provide personal care and counseling services for the development of wholesome family life
Mountain state justice provides free legal services to low income people in west virginia and assures that low income people have access to the court system.
Animal welfare
To serve the needs of individuals suffering from life-limiting illness as well as to serve the individuals caring for them. to place emphasis on comfort and quality of life while fulfilling the physical, psychological, social and spiritual…
Provide comprehensive primary medical care to the communites served.
Providing free lunches to the hungry, sheltering the homeless during inclement weather, and case management for those seeking financial assistance. services are offered to those in the paducah, kentucky area.
Provide care for homeless/abused animals
Provide food to needy individuals & families - food is puchased from several sources, donated from serveral sources. costs include renting u-haul trucks to picking up truck loads of food from the mountaineer food bank. we also provide…
The Organization provides utility and rent assistance as well as clothing, furniture, and transportation for citizens of Mingo County, WV, and Martin County, Ky.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Thunder Trust Foundation Inc. 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 43 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
26 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. 26 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 MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BIG GREEN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONCORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES T CHUCK MATHENA II co RICHARD L DAVIS ↗
- Who funds TENDER MERCIES MINISTRIES OF PRINCETON ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds Princeton Community Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds HEAVEN SENT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEFIELD UNION MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE FOR CATS INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN TEEN CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECT OF MERCER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MERCER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MANNA MEAL INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds KANAWHA-CHARLESTON HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE THUNDER TRUST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WARM A HEART GIVE A BED ↗
- Who funds HEART AND HAND OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE VIRGINIAS 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: Preservati Family Char Tr Fdn · The H P and Anne S Hunnicutt Foundation · K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust · Celanese Foundation · Jam Family Foundation Inc · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · The 1912 Charitable Foundation · The Stelio and Betty Tracy Corte Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of the Virginias Inc · The Burke & Herbert Bank Foundation · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington West Virginia
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 Pace Family 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.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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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