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United Way of Southern Wv Inc

We improve lives in southern west virginia by focusing on the building blocks for a good quality of life: health, education and financial stability.

$350k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$350k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Human Services$504kHealth$402kCrime & Legal$185kEmployment$100kHousing & Shelter$37kFood & Nutrition$37kAnimals$37kArts & Culture$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$349,950
Median grant
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States reached
$916k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
2026 AGENCY ALLOCATION S$349,950
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 20%CATHOLIC CHARITIES WV: $13k → 15%RALEIGH CO COMMISSION ON AGING: $45k → 20%REACHH FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $14k → 23%MCDOWELL COUNTY COMM ON AGING: $11k → 25%NICHOLAS STARTING POINTS: $6k → 18%REACHH FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $12k → 23%STOP ABUSIVE FAMILY ENVIROMENTS: $11k → 25%CATHOLIC CHARITIES WV: $7k → 15%MCDOWELL COMMISSION ON AGING: $10k → 25%MCDOWELL CO COMMISSION ON AGING: $9k → 25%STOP ABUSIVE FAMILY ENVIRONMENT: $7k → 25%MCDOWELL COMMISSION ON AGING: $7k → 25%RALIEGH COUNTY COMMMISSION ON THE A: $26k → 20%LOAVES AND FISHES (CCS): $7k → 21%RALIEGH COUNTY COMMMISSION ON THE A: $25k → 20%RALIEGH COUNTY COMMMISSION ON THE A: $22k → 20%RALIEGH CO COMMUNITY ACTION: $14k → 20%RALEIGH CO COMMISSION ON AGING: $11k → 20%PINE HAVEN HOMELESS SHELTER: $9k → 20%SUMMERS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $11k → 20%SUMMERS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $10k → 20%SUMMERS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $9k → 20%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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 100% of United Way of Southern Wv Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in WV; by stated purpose, 0%.

United Way of Southern Wv Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 26 repeat orgs$676k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
27

Total granted

$1.2M
$326k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+77%

Still filing today

81%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’25
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentSocial ScienceOther
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

  • RC
    RALEIGH COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $129k · revenue +84%
  • BS
    BRIANS SAFEHOUSE INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $102k · revenue +23%
  • JF
    JUST FOR KIDS INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $99k · revenue +212%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $41k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • NR
    NEW RIVER HEALTH SCHOOL BASED HEAL
    one grant, 2017 · $27k
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
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
2
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
3
Ywca of Central Virginia

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

Human Services
4
Crisis Center of Russell County

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…

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Hospice Care Corporation D/B/a West Virginia Caring

To improve care for those facing life-limiting illness through direct support of patients and their families, public education and public advocacy.

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6
Family Counseling Connection Inc

Nurturing the mental health and psychological well being of children, adults and families.

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7
Appalachian Childrens Center Inc

Serve abused and/or neglected children in the Gilmer County area via counseling and other social services.

Recreation & Sports
8
Lewis County Senior Citizens Center Inc

Serve the senior citizens of Lewis County, WV

Human Services
9
Jefferson County Council On Aging Inc

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.

Human Services
10
Westcare Kentucky Inc

To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.

Health
11
Eastern West Virginia Community Action Agency Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
12
Conway County Care Center

Provide Emergency services, services include food, clothing, utility payment assistance, rental assistance, school supplies, infant care and medical assistance for 10442 individuals

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Raleigh County Commission On Aging Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 54 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
19/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

2026 AGENCY ALLOCATION S: $349,950 · Other2026 AGENCY ALLOCATION SIndividual grant recipient: $99,570 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHOSPICE OF SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA INC: $59,050 · OtherHOSPICE OF SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA INCBIG CREEK PEOPLE IN ACTION INC: $56,745 · OtherBIG CREEK PEOPLE IN ACTION INCLILLIAN JAMES LEARNING CENTER INC: $42,775 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $41,107 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $36,581 · OtherCHILD PROTECTION OF MERCER COUNTY: $36,050 · Other+24 more: $330,876 · Other+24 moreBRIANS SAFEHOUSE INC: $102,351 · HealthBRIANS SAFEHOUSE …BECKLEY HEALTH RIGHT INC: $94,935 · HealthBECKLEY HEALTH RI…New River Health Association Inc: $35,373 · HealthNew River Health …DAVIS-STUART INC: $28,750 · HealthDAVIS-STUART INCGABRIEL PROJECT OF WEST VIRGINIA: $15,425 · HealthTHE SPARROWS NEST: $14,120 · Health+1 more: $5,175 · HealthRALEIGH COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INC: $128,963 · Human ServicesRALEIGH COUNTY CO…McDowell County Commission on Aging Inc: $36,525 · Human ServicesMcDowell County C…Summers County Council on Aging Inc: $29,350 · Human ServicesSummers County Co…REACHH FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $26,140 · Human ServicesREACHH FAMILY RES…RALEIGH COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION INC: $22,725 · Human ServicesRALEIGH COUNTY CO…CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC: $19,500 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIE…S A F E INC: $17,560 · Human ServicesS A F E INC+2 more: $13,257 · Human ServicesJUST FOR KIDS INC: $99,473 · Crime & LegalCHILD PROTECT OF MERCER COUNTY INC: $49,497 · Crime & LegalBECKLEY DREAM CENTER INC DBA FISHES AND LOAVES: $88,935 · Food & NutritionWESTMINSTER AT WADE INC: $17,055 · Youth DevelopmentBLAND MINISTRY CENTER: $16,000 · ReligionWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER: $8,825 · Social Science
Other$1,052,704Health$296,129Human Services$294,020Crime & Legal$148,970Food & Nutrition$88,935Youth Development$17,055Religion$16,000Social Science$8,825

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRALEIGH COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INC: $128,963 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBRIANS SAFEHOUSE INC: $102,351 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetJUST FOR KIDS INC: $99,473 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetBECKLEY HEALTH RIGHT INC: $94,935 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBECKLEY DREAM CENTER INC DBA FISHES AND LOAVES: $88,935 over 4y, 23% of budgetHOSPICE OF SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA INC: $59,050 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBIG CREEK PEOPLE IN ACTION INC: $56,745 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetCHILD PROTECT OF MERCER COUNTY INC: $49,497 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetLILLIAN JAMES LEARNING CENTER INC: $42,775 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetMcDowell County Commission on Aging Inc: $36,525 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNew River Health Association Inc: $35,373 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMERCER COUNTY FELLOWSHIP HOME INC: $29,855 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetSummers County Council on Aging Inc: $29,350 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDAVIS-STUART INC: $28,750 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetREACHH FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $26,140 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetRALEIGH COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION INC: $22,725 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC: $19,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetS A F E INC: $17,560 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWESTMINSTER AT WADE INC: $17,055 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBLAND MINISTRY CENTER: $16,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGABRIEL PROJECT OF WEST VIRGINIA: $15,425 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetTHE SPARROWS NEST: $14,120 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN ACTION INC: $12,420 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetNourish Up: $7,079 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRAINELLE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $5,175 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 ↗

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.

Beckley Area Foundati…Hugh I Shott Jr Found…American Electric Pow…K B Tierney Charitabl…Carter Family Foundat…Skewes Family Foundat…Bernard McDonough Fou…Encova Foundation of …The Greater Kanawha V…Enterprise Holdings F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Donor Advised Charita…
Beckley Area Foundation IncWV26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 United Way of Southern Wv Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Southern Wv Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    9report 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 54 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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