· Public charity
West Virginia Community Development Hub Inc
The hub supports communities in west virginia in their efforts to experience purposeful, self-directed development respectful of local culture and values.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $1,079,990 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,593,153 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $513,163 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $597k
- $250k+1 grant · $393k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW RIVER GORGE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY | $393,420 |
| ADVANTAGE VALLEY INC | $248,174 |
| MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION | $208,864 |
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION | $139,888 |
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY | $42,969 |
| THE VIRGINIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND | $31,675 |
| AFV EDUCATE | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 55% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 6 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 FY2024, 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
- MUMARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION2× · 2023–2024 · $318k · revenue +15%
- WVWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION3× · 2018–2024 · $233k · revenue +39%
- FOFRIENDS OF WETZEL COUNTY2× · 2020–2022 · $23k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- IAINVEST APPALACHIA INCone grant, 2022 · $70k · revenue +15%
- LCLOST CREEK FARMone grant, 2020 · $35k
- AAAYRES ASSOCIATES INCone grant, 2019 · $30k
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.
Economic Development and Tourism Promotion in Eastern Kentucky
Economic development for the west central mountain idaho region
Private funds and support for economic development in martinsville-henry county
Community and Business support to encourage economic progress and support business growth.
Promote economic developement
Industrial and commercial development.
The conserving of natural resources and improving rural economies through leadership and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grant County Convention Visitors and the most unlike its peers is Morgantown Sober Living Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 33 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 MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Advantage Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds AFV EDUCATE INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds INVEST APPALACHIA INC ↗
- Who funds Virginia Community Development Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds MEADOW RIVER VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WETZEL COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Grant County Convention Visitors ↗
- Who funds Hardy Co Convention&Visitor Bureau ↗
- Who funds KINGWOOD MAIN STREET PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN STATE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MORGANTOWN SOBER LIVING 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 Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · The West Virginia Humanities Council Inc · West Virginia University Research Corporation · Claude Worthington Benedum 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 West Virginia Community Development Hub Inc 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.