· Private foundation
The Strong-Treister Family Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| YMCA | $35,000 |
| MARSHALL HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WVU HEALTH SYSTEMS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BUCKSKIN COUNCIL-BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $6,500 |
| WING 2 WING FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FUND FOR THE ARTS | $5,000 |
| WILKESVILLE CIVIC ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| CAPITOL MARKET | $5,000 |
| YWCA OF CHARLESTON WV | $5,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH UNITED METHODIST | $5,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA MANUFACTURER'S ASSOC EDUCATION FD | $3,000 |
| KANAWHA CHARLESTON HUMANE ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 8 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- WVWEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $207k · revenue +123%
- CHCABELL HUNTINGTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2024 · $41k · revenue +61%
- HMHUNTINGTON MUSEUM OF ART INC2× · 2021–2023 · $20k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- GKGREATER KANAWHA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $110k
- KCKANAWHA COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $65k
- YOYMCA OF CHARLESTON WVone grant, 2024 · $50k
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.
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…
The west virginia rural health association (wvrha) advocates for empowering all west virginians to advance their quality of life, their well-being, and their access to excellence in rural health care. our mission is to unite people,…
To improve the health and health care quality for the residents of west virginia.
The west virginia chamber of commerce provides opportunities for broad based prosperity throughout west virginia.
Communityworks in west virignia (cwwv) creates housing and community development solutions for all west virginians through a network of member organizations. cwwv carries out its mission by providing effective training and technical…
Provide homemaker and case management services to home-bound seniors and disabled members in west virginia. provide, also, training and job assistance to those 55 and older on a limited income.
Strengthening philanthropy in the mountain state.
Valley healthcare system shall improve our community's health by delivering the highest quality behavioral healthcare guided by our consumer's needs.
The mission of wvicu is to advance collectively the interests of west virginia's independent colleges and universities and their students.
Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fund for the Arts and the most unlike its peers is The Wing 2 Wing Foundation. 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 44 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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 64 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 STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF KANAWHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CABELL HUNTINGTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CLARKSBURG MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL THERAPY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE WING 2 WING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPITOL MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds REA OF HOPE FELLOWSHIP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE CARE CORPORATION D/B/A WEST VIRGINIA CARING ↗
- Who funds KANAWHA-CHARLESTON HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA 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: Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Tgkvf Inc · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · Herscher Foundation Inc · Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington West Virginia · The Elliot Foundation Inc · Charles & Mary Fayne Glotfelty Foundation Inc · The Daywood Foundationinc · Bowles Rice Foundation
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 Strong-Treister Family 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.
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.