· Public charity
United Way of Southern Wv Inc
United way is working to advance the common good by focusing on education, income and health.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $159,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $594,896 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $435,396 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RALEIGH CO COMMISSION ON AGING | $45,000 |
| CHILD PROTECT OF MERCER COUNTY | $22,500 |
| BECKLEY HEALTH RIGHT | $17,500 |
| BIG CREEK PEOPLE ACTION | $15,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES WV | $12,500 |
| LILLIAN JAMES LEARNING CENTER | $12,000 |
| MCDOWELL COMMISSION ON AGING | $10,000 |
| GABRIEL PROJECT | $10,000 |
| BLAND MINISTRIES CENTER & DENTAL CENTER | $9,000 |
| HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN WV | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $294k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 20%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of United Way of Southern Wv Inc’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, 94% of the giving stays in WV; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 16 since wound down.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- RCRALEIGH COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INC5× · 2017–2023 · $129k · revenue +84%
- BSBRIANS SAFEHOUSE INC5× · 2017–2022 · $102k · revenue +23%
- JFJUST FOR KIDS INC4× · 2017–2020 · $99k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $41k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $30k
- NRNEW RIVER HEALTH SCHOOL BASED HEALone grant, 2017 · $27k
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.
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
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.
Nurturing the mental health and psychological well being of children, adults and families.
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, dignity, and freedom for all.
The Crisis Center of Russell County was organized to provide assistance and temporary housing to victims of domestic abuse through secured temporary housing and education with job placement to transition them back into society. In…
To improve care for those facing life-limiting illness through direct support of patients and their families, public education and public advocacy.
Serve abused and/or neglected children in the Gilmer County area via counseling and other social services.
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
To provide in home services, para-nursing services, nutritional meals, transportation, and other various services to the elderly of Jefferson and Berkley Counties located in WV.
Eastern West Virginia Community Action Agency serves the disadvantaged people by determining their needs; advocating for and providing programs that help remove them from the causes of poverty.
Serve the senior citizens of Lewis County, WV
Shelter service for abused women and children in mingo and logan counties in west virginia.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reachh Family Resource Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Womens Resource Center. 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 34 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 53 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 RALEIGH COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds BRIANS SAFEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JUST FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds BECKLEY HEALTH RIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds BECKLEY DREAM CENTER INC DBA FISHES AND LOAVES ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds BIG CREEK PEOPLE IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECT OF MERCER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LILLIAN JAMES LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds McDowell County Commission on Aging Inc ↗
- Who funds New River Health Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCER COUNTY FELLOWSHIP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Summers County Council on Aging Inc ↗
- Who funds DAVIS-STUART INC ↗
- Who funds REACHH FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RALEIGH COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds S A F E INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER AT WADE INC ↗
- Who funds BLAND MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GABRIEL PROJECT OF WEST VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds THE SPARROWS NEST ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER ↗
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: Beckley Area Foundation Inc · Hugh I Shott Jr Foundation Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust · Carter Family Foundation · Skewes Family Foundation · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Southern Wv 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.