· Private foundation
West Virginia First Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k63 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k59 grants · $5.8M
- $250k+3 grants · $802k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH STAR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $288,000 |
| SOUTHERN WV FELLOWSHIP HOME INC | $263,520 |
| BERKELEY COUNTY COMMISSION | $250,258 |
| PRESTERA CENTER FOR MHS INC | $190,070 |
| CITY OF WHEELING | $185,453 |
| VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY MHC | $177,964 |
| SEED SOWER INC | $177,120 |
| WV PERINATAL PARTNERSHIP INC | $169,089 |
| NATIONAL YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAM | $167,140 |
| HAMPSHIRE COUNTY PATHWAYS DBA WVCOR | $160,000 |
| SEMPER LIBERI INC | $160,000 |
| ABUNDANT LIFE RECOVERY HOUSING NETW | $154,264 |
| YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM | $146,500 |
| MORGANTOWN SOBER LIVING INC | $144,000 |
| NORTH STAR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $144,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 88% 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.
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.
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
Rockbridge Recovery supports individuals, families, and communities touched by addictive behaviors through support from peers, prevention, and education.
To collectively strengthen integrated behavioral and primary healthcare system by providing a continuum of services to the community that is responsive, accessible, and high-quality.
To serve as the primary planning and coordinating body to promote
To provide appropriate mental health, prevention, alcohol & drug treatment and recovery services in the Van Wert and Paulding Counties and surrounding areas in a person centered environment.
Wv nonprofit organization working to prevent substance abuse in raleigh county, wv.
Anchor homes operates a faith-based recovery program and believes in helping people of all races, nationality, social class, religion, gender, and language with recovery programming and housing. we believe that the answer to addiction is…
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
To provide an organization through which the community can plan and implement efforts to address the problems of substance abuse and dependency for the citizens of Harrison County.
Provide quality treatment and prevention services to all persons suffering from the consequences of substance abuse or HIV illnesses.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-Ohio Valley Fellowship Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hope House Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 89 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 NORTH STAR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN WV FELLLOWSHIP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds SEED SOWER INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WV PERINATAL PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER LIBERI INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Abundant Life Recovery Housing Network ↗
- Who funds MISSION WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds MORGANTOWN SOBER LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds WESTBROOK HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA HEALTH RIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPSHIRE COUNTY PATHWAYS INC STAMBLER ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VISION RENEWABLE ENERGY INC ↗
- Who funds Pollen 8 Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARTINSBURG INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MID-OHIO VALLEY FELLOWSHIP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Libera Inc ↗
- Who funds United Summit Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LILY'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA PREVENTION SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Fayette County Family Resource Network Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF PARKERSBURG INC ↗
- Who funds STOP THE HURT INC ↗
- Who funds McDowell County Commission on Aging 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: Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Milan Puskar Foundation Inc · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Sisters of St Joseph Charitable Fund Inc · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington West Virginia · Parkersburg Area Community Foundation Inc (Previously Pacf Inc) · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · West Virginia Child Abuse Network Inc · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · West Virginia University Research Corporation · Highmark 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 First Foundation 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
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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