· Public charity
The West Virginia Humanities Council Inc
The west virginia humanities council awards grants to others, directly funds certain projects, e-wv an online interactive program, and conducts seminars and conferences throughout the state of west virginia.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $204,029 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $290,146 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $86,117 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $147k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION | $28,675 |
| SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,227 |
| WEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $20,000 |
| ALCHEMY THEATRE TROUPE INC | $18,000 |
| WV MUSIC HALL OF FAME | $18,000 |
| MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORP | $13,041 |
| AUGUSTA HERITAGE CENTER | $12,061 |
| WV PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION | $11,516 |
| MARTINSBURG BERKELEY COUNTY NAACP | $9,770 |
| STEP BY STEP INC | $8,685 |
| CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATRE FESTIVAL | $8,000 |
| APPALACHIAN FORREST HERITAGE AREA | $7,800 |
| PRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF WV | $6,799 |
| ARTHURDALE HERITAGE | $6,000 |
| WV MINE WARS MUSEUM | $5,403 |
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 (FY23–24, $17k) 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 +27% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 4 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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 RESEARCH CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $229k · revenue +94%
- SUSHEPHERD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $207k · revenue +10%
- WVWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION7× · 2018–2024 · $142k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- COCITY OF WESTON HISTORICAL LANDMARK COMMISSIONone grant, 2021 · $24k
- FOFriends of Blackwaterone grant, 2020 · $23k
- RCRANDOLPH COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $22k
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 mission of the society is to promote an interst in the broad spectrum of history with emphasis on that of western virginia; to collect, preserve, interpret and make available materials relating to that history; to sponsor research and…
Dedicated to the preservation and perpetuation of history in berkeley county, west virginia.
Preservation and promotion of the history, traditions, and culture of westmoreland county, virginia and preservation of historical records of the county.
To preserve the history and artifacts of our heritage in Mannington District, Marion County, West Virginia
The mission of washington heritage museums is to preserve, promote and maintain its five 18th century properties in fredericksburg, virginia and develop dynamic educational resources and programs to engage and inspire the intrest of…
Find, cultivate, educate and encourage new talent. Recognize and honor those who have used their talents to promote and encourage Country Music. Provide a suitable environment for displaying memorabilia and other artifacts related to the…
Public education and preservation of West Virginia's railroad history.
Provide direct financial support to agencies, organizations and governmental units in support of the fine arts in harrison county, wv
Provide historical records and documents
Educating our community and passing on an appreciation for Art, History, and Culture. It is our mission to ensure that visiting Clarksburg History Museum is an enriching, exciting and educational experience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mount Hope Heritage & Hope Inc and the most unlike its peers is Clio Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 90 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 RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDA ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA MUSIC HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA MINE WARS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATER FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BLACKWATER INC ↗
- Who funds Alchemy Theatre Troupe Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ASHBY'S FORT INC ↗
- Who funds CLIO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROOKE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTHURDALE HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
- Who funds PRICKETT'S FORT MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARRISON COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC BEVERLY PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE WEST VIRGINIA LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GREENBRIER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN GLASS LTD ↗
- Who funds Adaland Mansion Development 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: Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · The Daywood Foundationinc · Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · West Virginia University Research Corporation · Tgkvf Inc · Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson 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 West Virginia Humanities Council 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.
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.