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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.

$290k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$29k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.6MEducation$445kScience & Tech$209kEnvironment$129kCommunity Improvement$119kRecreation & Sports$77kPhilanthropy$49kPublic Benefit$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $204,029, the rows itemized in this filing. The $290,146 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $86,117 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $147k
$11,516
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%STEP BY STEP INC: $9k → 18%STEP BY STEP INC: $8k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 34 repeat orgs$675k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
52

Total granted

$2.0M
$638k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+17%

Still filing today

71%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MU
    MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $229k · revenue +94%
  • SU
    SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $207k · revenue +10%
  • WV
    WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $142k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF WESTON HISTORICAL LANDMARK COMMISSION
    one grant, 2021 · $24k
  • FO
    Friends of Blackwater
    one grant, 2020 · $23k
  • RC
    RANDOLPH COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · $22k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Westmoreland County Museum & Library Inc

Preservation and promotion of the history, traditions, and culture of westmoreland county, virginia and preservation of historical records of the county.

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2
Historical Society of Western Virginia

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…

Arts & Culture
3
West Augusta Historical Society

To preserve the history and artifacts of our heritage in Mannington District, Marion County, West Virginia

Arts & Culture
4
The Berkeley County Historical Society

Dedicated to the preservation and perpetuation of history in berkeley county, west virginia.

Arts & Culture
5
Washington Heritage Museums

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Lewisburg Foundation Incorporated
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7
Isle of Wight County Museum Foundation Inc
Arts & Culture
8
West Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
9
The West Virginia Railroad Museum Inc

Public education and preservation of West Virginia's railroad history.

Arts & Culture
10
The Cultural Foundation of Harrison County Inc

Provide direct financial support to agencies, organizations and governmental units in support of the fine arts in harrison county, wv

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11
Historical Society of Washington County Va

Provide historical records and documents

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12
Clarksburg History Museum Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mount Hope Heritage & Hope Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/55
Grantees still filing
38/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEST VIRGINIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDA: $113,746 · Arts & CultureWEST VIRGINIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUN…WEST VIRGINIA MUSIC HALL OF FAME INC: $113,708 · Arts & CultureWEST VIRGINIA MUSIC HALL OF FAME INCWEST VIRGINIA MINE WARS MUSEUM: $101,489 · Arts & CultureWEST VIRGINIA MINE WARS MUSEUMCONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATER FESTIVAL: $99,112 · Arts & CultureCONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATER FESTIVALAlchemy Theatre Troupe Inc: $69,591 · Arts & CultureAlchemy Theatre Troupe IncCLIO FOUNDATION: $61,500 · Arts & CultureCLIO FOUNDATIONPRICKETT'S FORT MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $36,675 · Arts & CultureHARRISON COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $35,890 · Arts & Culture+18 more: $290,716 · Arts & Culture+18 moreWEST VIRGINIA EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTING AUTHORITY: $74,560 · OtherWEST VIRGINIA EDUCATIONAL BROAD…ARTHURDALE HERITAGE INC: $40,590 · OtherARTHURDALE HERITAGE INCTHE MOUNTAIN OF HOPE INC: $38,000 · OtherWEST VIRGINIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INCORPORATED: $35,100 · OtherVOICES FROM THE EARTH INC: $31,000 · OtherTHANKS PLAIN AND SIMPLE INC: $26,995 · Other+38 more: $510,540 · Other+38 moreSHEPHERD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $207,326 · EducationSHEPHERD UNIVERSITY FOU…WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION: $141,583 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSIT…DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE: $85,565 · EducationDAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGEBROOKE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $48,884 · EducationBROOKE COUNTY LIBRARY F…THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC: $40,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARL…+3 more: $29,263 · EducationMARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION: $228,693 · Community ImprovementMARSHALL U…Hardy Co Convention&Visitor Bureau: $11,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $7,800 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF ASHBY'S FORT INC: $69,219 · PhilanthropyLIBRARY FOUNDATION OF KANAWHA COUNTY INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyHERITAGE FARM FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyRURAL APPALACHIAN IMPROVEMENT LEAGUE INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyROWLESBURG REVITALIZATION COMMITTEE INC: $7,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF BLACKWATER INC: $79,752 · EnvironmentTHE WEST VIRGINIA LAND TRUST INC: $21,559 · EnvironmentSTEP BY STEP INC: $17,055 · Human ServicesWV Strawberry Festival Association Inc: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$922,427Other$756,785Education$552,621Community Improvement$247,493Philanthropy$111,219Environment$101,311Human Services$17,055Recreation & Sports$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION: $228,693 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSHEPHERD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $207,326 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION: $141,583 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDA: $113,746 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA MUSIC HALL OF FAME INC: $113,708 over 6y, 30% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA MINE WARS MUSEUM: $101,489 over 7y, 13% of budgetCONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATER FESTIVAL: $99,112 over 8y, 25% of budgetDAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE: $85,565 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF BLACKWATER INC: $79,752 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetAlchemy Theatre Troupe Inc: $69,591 over 4y, 25% of budgetFRIENDS OF ASHBY'S FORT INC: $69,219 over 3y, 32% of budgetCLIO FOUNDATION: $61,500 over 3y, 68% of budgetBROOKE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $48,884 over 3y, 32% of budgetARTHURDALE HERITAGE INC: $40,590 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRICKETT'S FORT MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $36,675 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetHARRISON COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $35,890 over 2y, 40% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHISTORIC BEVERLY PRESERVATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCHARLESTON BALLET INC: $28,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetMARSHALL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetTHE WEST VIRGINIA LAND TRUST INC: $21,559 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGREENBRIER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $21,500 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN GLASS LTD: $20,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetAdaland Mansion Development Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetSTEP BY STEP INC: $17,055 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHARPERS FERRY PARK ASSOCIATION: $15,212 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetLIBRARY FOUNDATION OF KANAWHA COUNTY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $14,263 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARDY COUNTY TOUR & CRAFT ASSOCIATION: $12,694 over 1y, 40% of budgetCRAIK-PATTON INC: $11,543 over 1y, 11% of budgetCARNEGIE HALL INC: $11,102 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPOCAHONTAS COUNTY OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $11,050 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetHardy Co Convention&Visitor Bureau: $11,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetRICH MOUNTAIN BATTLEFIELD FOUNDATION INC: $10,963 over 1y, 22% of budgetMOUNT HOPE HERITAGE & HOPE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetHistoric Shepherdstown Commission Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetMorgantown Theatre Company: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHERITAGE FARM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetPoint Pleasant River Museum Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetWV Strawberry Festival Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUNTINGTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOIL GAS & INDUSTRIAL HISTORICAL AS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetWHEELING SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRURAL APPALACHIAN IMPROVEMENT LEAGUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetAPPALACHIAN FOREST HERITAGE AREA INC: $7,800 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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 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 WEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC BEVERLY PRESERVATION 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 ↗

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.

Claude Worthington Be…The Greater Kanawha V…Mid Atlantic Arts IncTruist West Virginia …The Daywood Foundatio…Eastern West Virginia…Eqt FoundationEncova Foundation of …West Virginia Univers…Tgkvf IncCommunity Foundation …Bernard H and Blanche…
Claude Worthington Benedum FoundationPA43.3× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The West Virginia Humanities Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The West Virginia Humanities Council Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 90 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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