· Public charity
United Methodist Foundation of West Virginia Inc
The mission of the Foundation is to create a culture of generosity by raising, managing, and distributing funds for charitable and religious purposes, with a special interest on United Methodist causes.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 65 grants below total $1,314,074 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,454,858 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,140,784 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 $10k28 grants · $200k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $651k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $463k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| West Virginia Wesleyan College | $101,104 |
| Pension Funds Inc | $98,102 |
| Duffey Memorial Methodist Church | $76,425 |
| Burlington United Methodist Family Services Inc Beckley Campus | $67,418 |
| Christ United Methodist Church Weirton | $66,030 |
| Burlington United Methodist Family Services Inc | $53,594 |
| Heart and Hand Outreach Ministries Inc | $44,344 |
| United Methodist Committee on Relief | $43,941 |
| City National Bank Trust Department | $37,028 |
| Wesley Theological Seminary | $34,813 |
| Individual grant recipient | $32,631 |
| St Andrew United Methodist Church St Albans | $32,037 |
| West Hamlin United Methodist Church | $31,880 |
| Gassaway United Methodist Church | $30,524 |
| John Stewart United Methodist Church | $25,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $836k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
61 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 21 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $323k 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
- THTHE HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $161k · revenue +48%
- UCUpshur Cooperative Parish Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $84k · revenue +340%
- SRSCOTTS RUN SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $59k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- BUBurlington UM Family Servone grant, 2017 · $61k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $60k
- FUFirst United Methodist Churchone grant, 2019 · $52k
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.
Provide housing to low-income families.
To provide housing, food and religious counseling for the needy and underprivileged.
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…
The organization is a community-based mutual-aid nonprofit, providing supplies and support to people experiencing homelessness and advocating for compassionate, just, and collaborative solutions to homelessness.
The mission of the Foundation is to create a culture of generosity by raising, managing, and distributing funds for charitable and religious purposes, with a special interest on United Methodist causes.
Shelter service for abused women and children in mingo and logan counties in west virginia.
To work with government and business organizations to improve quality of life for citizens
To provide shelter for victims of domestic violence
West virginia community action partnership is an alliance of community action agencies that supports and strengthens our members, advocates for low-income and families and promotes partnerships.
Improve the administration of justice and the provision of legal services for west virginia's citizens.
Valley healthcare system shall improve our community's health by delivering the highest quality behavioral healthcare guided by our consumer's needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Religious Coalition for Community Renewal Inc and the most unlike its peers is Big Blue Wardensville. 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 39 years old; the field is 19. 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 — 0.0% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 191 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 WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BURLINGTON UNITED METHODIST FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HEART AND HAND OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Upshur Cooperative Parish Inc ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds SCOTTS RUN SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
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: The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Peoples Bank Foundation · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · The Strong-Treister Family Foundation · Bowles Rice Foundation · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington West Virginia · Sisters of St Joseph Charitable Fund Inc · Parkersburg Area Community Foundation Inc (Previously Pacf Inc) · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Enterprise Holdings 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 United Methodist Foundation of West Virginia 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.