· Public charity
United Way of the Eastern Panhandle
To inspire and mobilize our community to create change.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 29 grants below total $647,872 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $695,148 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $47,276 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $295k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $277k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HORSES WITH HEARTS | $98,710 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE EASTERN PA | $62,622 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS BERKELEY COUNTY | $62,128 |
| CASA OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE | $53,963 |
| CCAP LOAVES & FISHES | $46,990 |
| TELEMON CORPORATION | $46,000 |
| COMMUNITY MARKETS | $40,893 |
| BERKELEY SENIOR SERVICES | $23,619 |
| STARTING POINTS | $20,836 |
| JC COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $19,047 |
| COMMUNITY NETWORKS | $14,447 |
| STARS THAT SHINE | $14,224 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN FREE CLINIC | $12,661 |
| NORBORNE PRESCHOOL & DAYCARE | $12,488 |
| FAITH COMMUNITY COALITION | $11,368 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- HWHORSES WITH HEARTS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $529k · revenue +217% · 38% of their budget
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $332k · revenue +182%
- BCBERKELEY COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $309k · revenue +202%
Funded once
- FFFAITH FEEDING FREEDOMone grant, 2022 · $13k
- EEPICone grant, 2021 · $10k
- MPMARTINSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY COMM A CORP CREATED BY ORD OF COUNCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +18%
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
Animal welfare
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.
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…
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.
Provide services to senior citizens of Summers County, West Virginia.
The mission of ccwv is to help our communities live the healthiest lives possible by meeting their immediate and long-term healthcare needs. this mission is accomplished by providing high quality, accessible, comprehensive, culturally…
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, dignity, and freedom for all.
Mountainheart community services, inc. provides services to the low income and elderly citizens of west virginia through head start, child care, right from the start, weatherization, birth to three and in-home care programs.
To provide primary medical care service in a rural community.
To operate residential and non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence.
Provide hot meals to senior citizens. provide home health care services to the elderly. provide respite care for alzheimers patients. provide transportation for senior citizens. provide social and recreational activities for senior…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Virginia Coalition to End Homelessness Inc and the most unlike its peers is Morgan County Homeless Coalition in. 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 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 58 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 HORSES WITH HEARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY COUNTY CONGREGATIONAL COOPERATIVE ACTION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH VALLEY MEDICAL SYSTEM I ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY NETWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds TELAMON CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PANHANDLE HOME HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY COUNTY BACKPACK PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds NORBORNE PRE-SCHOOL AND DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDSTOWN DAY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds CHEERS SCHOOL FAMILY INC HERITAGE SCHILD DEVELOPMENT CEN ↗
- Who funds FAITH COMMUNITY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds MORGAN COUNTY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Community Alternatives to Violence Inc ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Community Markets Inc ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MORGAN COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION IN ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE PANHANDLE INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BLACKCAT MUSIC COOPERATIVE ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MORGAN ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN ↗
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: Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation · Roy and Gwen Steeley Foundation Inc · Bowles Rice Foundation · Shepherd University Foundation Inc · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Give Back Foundation · Dan Ryan Builders Charitable Foundation · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Rotary Club of Charles Town Charitable Foundation · Community Education Group 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 the Eastern Panhandle 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.