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W E Stone Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WV INDEPENDENT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON | $15,000 |
| EXPERIENCE LEARNING | $10,000 |
| OGLEBAY INSTITUTE | $8,000 |
| LINSLY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| WHEELING SYMPHONY SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| OGLEBAY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WHEELING COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ARTS AMPLIFIED | $5,000 |
| HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER | $3,500 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS | $2,000 |
| ORCHARD PARK HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC | $1,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
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 +50% since the first grant, against -19% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 5 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 FY2025, 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC9× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +13%
- OFOGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +284%
- OIOGLEBAY INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $57k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- WCWVICU CIRCLE OF VISIONone grant, 2017 · $15k
- TLTHE LIFE HUB WVone grant, 2024 · $6k
- WJWHEELING JESUIT UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -19%
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.
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Wheeler is an independent, college preparatory day school serving students nursery through grade 12 whose mission is derived from the ideal of its founder, mary c wheeler, "to learn our powers and be answerable for their use."
Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…
As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.
Wilmington university is committed to excellence in teaching, relevancy of the curriculum, and individual attention to students. as an institution with admissions policies that provide access for all, it offers opportunity for higher…
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
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Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.
Oberlin College and Conservatory educate students for lives of intellectual, musical and artistic rigor and breadth, sustained inquiry, creativity and innovation, and leadership. Oberlin aims to prepare graduates with the knowledge,…
Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nami National. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 25 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 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
- Who funds OGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OGLEBAY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WHEELING COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELING SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LINSLY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BETHANY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF THE CARPENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds WHEELING JESUIT UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Mountain Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds GROW OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
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 Driehorst Family Foundation · Hess Family Foundation · Elizabeth Stifel Kline Foundation · Stamp 2001 Charitable Fund · Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · Eqt Foundation · Helen J Prince Foundation Security National Trust Co Trustee · Stamp Charitable Fund · James B Chambers Memorial
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 W E Stone Foundation 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.
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