· Private foundation
Weldon Family 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 $10k4 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRISTIAN HELP INC | $12,000 |
| WV BLACKHILLS FREE METHODIST CAMP | $10,000 |
| CHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RANCH | $6,000 |
| PANTRY PLUS MORE INC | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WV | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $183k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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 +84% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 9 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
- CMCHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RANCH INC8× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +359%
- CHCHRISTIAN HELP INC9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +674%
- WVWEST VIRGINIA BOTANIC GARDEN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- DODAUGHTER OF THE KING MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2020 · $5k
- ITIN TOUCH & CONCERNED INCone grant, 2017 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $4k
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.
The mission of mountain view humane is to end pet overpopulation in southwest virginia and southern west virginia by providing safe, affordable spay/neuter services and vaccine clinics for the community.
Provide food to needy individuals & families - food is puchased from several sources, donated from serveral sources. costs include renting u-haul trucks to picking up truck loads of food from the mountaineer food bank. we also provide…
The organization's mission is to help alleviate hunger in west virginia, educate the general public of the organization's existence and mission, promote awareness of hunger in west virginia, continue to develop and maintain a network for…
Manna meal provides breakfast and lunch 7 days a week, 365 days a year at our location in st. john's episcopal church, charleston, wv. manna meal serves women, men, families, and seniors on a non-discriminary basis.
Reduce hunger and provide food to families in need.
Mountain state justice provides free legal services to low income people in west virginia and assures that low income people have access to the court system.
To provide primary medical care service in a rural community.
To provide housing, food and religious counseling for the needy and underprivileged.
Ccm feeds underprivileged children in wv
Preventing termination of pregnancies
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 Mylan Park Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mountaineer Spay Neuter Assistance Program. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 23 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 CHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HELP INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA BOTANIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE PANTRY PLUS MORE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds MILAN PUSKAR HEALTH RIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds MYLAN PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DAUGHTER OF THE KING MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINEER SPAY NEUTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ↗
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: Milan Puskar Foundation Inc · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Hazel Ruby McQuain Charitable Trust · Your Community Foundation of North Central Wv Inc · Lynch Foundation Inc · John M Brown Family Foundation · George D Hott Foundation · United Way of Monongalia and Preston Counites Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Charles R Nailler Memorial Foundation · Empty Bowls Monongalia · Firstenergy 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 Weldon Family 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.