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United Way of Central West Virginia

UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA brings people and resources together to create positive change and lasting impact for our community.

$698k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 94% of UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $448k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $195k
$17,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RELIGIOUS COALITION FOR COMMUNITY RENEWAL INC$70,000
THE SALVATION ARMY - CHARLESTON WV AREA COMMAND$65,000
YWCA OF CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA INC$60,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS (CENTRAL & SOUTHERN WV CHAPTER)$45,000
RECOVERY GROUP OF SWV INC$42,000
CHILDRENS THERAPY CLINIC$40,000
WEST VIRGINIA HEALTH RIGHT INC$38,000
BOB BURDETTE CENTER INC$36,250
KANAWHA COUNTY DENTAL HEALTH COUNCIL INC$35,000
HEART AND HAND OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC$27,000
GABRIEL PROJECT OF WEST VIRGINIA$23,100
APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC$21,000
KANAWHA VALLEY FELLOWSHIP HOME INC$18,250
HERO HOUSE$17,000
KVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE WEST VIRGINIA INC$16,750
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%ARTS IN ACTION INC: $6k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC: $6k → 15%YWCA OF CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA INC: $60k → 18%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS (CENTRAL & SOUTHERN WV CHAPTER): $45k → 18%KANAWHA VALLEY SENIOR SERVICES INC: $8k → 18%BOB BURDETTE CENTER INC: $36k → 18%DAYMARK INC: $15k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 28% of United Way of Central West Virginia’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in WV; read by stated purpose it is 73% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

United Way of Central West Virginialessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your field

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.

1
Southern Wv Felllowship Home Inc

The southern west virginia fellowship home is here to serve all in need of a better life apart from drugs and alcohol. we have a confident expectation that a whole new life "a better life" exists for all.

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2
Wv Helping Hands
Human Services
3
Tug Valley Recovery Shelter Associationinc

Shelter service for abused women and children in mingo and logan counties in west virginia.

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4
Central West Virginia Aging Services Inc

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.

Human Services
5
West Virginia Homes Inc

Provide housing to low-income families.

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6
Ywca of Central Virginia

The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, dignity, and freedom for all.

Human Services
7
Harvest Freewill Baptist Childcare Ministries Inc

The organization is operated as a emergency shelter and home for abused, neglected and troubled children of southwest virginia. it provides services for the local departments of social services. it is paid on a fee for service basis by…

Religion
8
Communityworks in West Virginia Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
9
Anchor Homes Inc

Anchor homes operates a faith-based recovery program and believes in helping people of all races, nationality, social class, religion, gender, and language with recovery programming and housing. we believe that the answer to addiction is…

Health
10
West Virginia Coalition to End Homelessness Inc

The mission of the wvceh is to create partnerships and collaborations at the local, state, and national levels to develop and implement long-term solutions to homelessness and poverty. the wv coalition to end homelessness shall advocate…

Human Services
11
Wayne County Community Services Organization

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

Community Improvement
12
Mountain Cap of West Virginia Inc

Mountain cap of west virginia, inc. provides services to the low income, underpriveleged and elderly citizens of west virginia through weatherization, medicaid waiver, low income housing, child services and other programs.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities West Virginia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hero House. 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 50 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr13%4%5–10yr16%8%10–20yr15%12%20–35yr14%40%35–55yr24%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%1%5–10yr16%9%10–20yr15%10%20–35yr14%36%35–55yr24%44%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/28
the rest of the field
13%
236/1,759

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.

05the grantee network

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 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
7/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VARIOUS PARTNER AGENCIES — $6,551,038 · OtherVARIOUS PARTNER AGENCIES+7 more — $238,000 · OtherYWCA OF CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $45,000 · Human ServicesBOB BURDETTE CENTER INC — $36,250 · Human ServicesDAYMARK INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE WEST VIRGINIA CASA ASSOCIATION INC — $14,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesUNION MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $8,500 · Human ServicesBRANCHES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC — $8,500 · Human ServicesKANAWHA VALLEY SENIOR SERVICES INC — $7,500 · Human Services+2 more — $11,600 · Human ServicesRECOVERY GROUP OF SWV INC — $42,000 · HealthCHILDRENS THERAPY CLINIC — $40,000 · HealthKANAWHA COUNTY DENTAL HEALTH COUNCIL INC — $35,000 · HealthGABRIEL PROJECT OF WEST VIRGINIA — $23,100 · HealthKANAWHA VALLEY FELLOWSHIP HOME INC — $18,250 · HealthHERO HOUSE — $17,000 · HealthKVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE WEST VIRGINIA INC — $16,750 · HealthREA OF HOPE FELLOWSHIP HOME INC — $10,000 · HealthAPPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC — $21,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANAWHA AND PUTNAM COUNTY INC — $5,600 · Housing & Shelter
Other$6,789,038Human Services$218,350Health$202,100Housing & Shelter$26,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYWCA OF CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA INC — $60,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRECOVERY GROUP OF SWV INC — $42,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCHILDRENS THERAPY CLINIC — $40,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA HEALTH RIGHT INC — $38,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOB BURDETTE CENTER INC — $36,250 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetKANAWHA VALLEY FELLOWSHIP HOME INC — $18,250 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHERO HOUSE — $17,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetKVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE WEST VIRGINIA INC — $16,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDAYMARK INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WEST VIRGINIA CASA ASSOCIATION INC — $14,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREA OF HOPE FELLOWSHIP HOME INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBRANCHES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC — $8,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC — $5,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANAWHA AND PUTNAM COUNTY INC — $5,600 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

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.

The Greater Kanawha V…Encova Foundation of …Pallottine Foundation…Truist West Virginia …The Daywood Foundatio…Tgkvf IncBowles Rice FoundationBernard McDonough Fou…Charleston Retail Cre…McJunkin Family Found…Logan Healthcare Foun…Bernard H and Blanche…
The Greater Kanawha Valley FoundationWV40.6× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington West Virginia · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · The Daywood Foundationinc · Tgkvf Inc · Bowles Rice Foundation · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · Charleston Retail Credit Associatio · McJunkin Family Foundation Truist Foundations and Endowment Spec Pract Tr · Logan Healthcare Foundation 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 United Way of Central West Virginia 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.

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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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