· Private foundation
Weldon Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WV | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC | $5,000 |
| PANTRY PLUS MORE INC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +84% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CMCHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RANCH INC8× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +453%
- 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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Weldon Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Weldon Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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