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Wv Emulation Endowment Trust

Support of specified educational institutions

$375k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.8M
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $232k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $134k
$24,300
Median grant
4
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON$69,700
WVU FOUNDATION$64,100
WV SCHOOL OF OSTEOPATHIC MED$44,700
WHEELING UNIVERSITY$27,200
WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY$26,800
RANDOLPH COLLEGE$26,000
DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE$24,300
MARSHALL UNIVERSITY$20,400
BETHANY COLLEGE$19,500
WV WESLEYAN COLLEGE$17,300
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$13,000
WITTENBERG UNIVERSITY$13,000
WEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY$9,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%BETHANY COLLEGE: $20k → 13%WHEELING UNIVERSITY: $27k → 15%DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE: $24k → 17%WEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $21k → 18%WV SCHOOL OF OSTEOPATHIC MED: $45k → 18%WV WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $17k → 19%WVU FOUNDATION: $64k → 19%MARSHALL UNIVERSITY: $20k → 19%ALDERSON-BROADDUS COLLEGE: $17k → 20%RANDOLPH COLLEGE: $30k → 8%WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY: $27k → 12%BETHANY COLLEGE: $19k → 13%WHEELING UNIVERSITY: $26k → 15%DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE: $24k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON: $70k → 18%WV SCHOOL OF OSTEOPATHIC MED: $26k → 18%WV WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $17k → 19%WVU FOUNDATION: $59k → 19%MARSHALL UNIVERSITY: $20k → 19%RANDOLPH COLLEGE: $26k → 8%WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY: $26k → 12%BETHANY COLLEGE: $17k → 13%WHEELING UNIVERSITY: $23k → 15%DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE: $21k → 17%WEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $18k → 18%WVU FOUNDATION: $58k → 19%RANDOLPH COLLEGE: $25k → 8%WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY: $23k → 12%WHEELING UNIVERSITY: $23k → 15%DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE: $21k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON: $68k → 18%WVU FOUNDATION: $54k → 19%RANDOLPH COLLEGE: $22k → 8%WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY: $23k → 12%WHEELING JESUIT UNIVERSITY: $21k → 15%DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE: $18k → 17%WVU FOUNDATION: $40k → 19%RANDOLPH COLLEGE: $22k → 8%WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 12%WHEELING UNIVERSITY: $20k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON: $59k → 18%WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: $20k → 19%RANDOLPH COLLEGE: $19k → 8%WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 12%GRETA B STEVENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $18k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON: $59k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON: $53k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON: $51k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 37% of Wv Emulation Endowment Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Wv Emulation Endowment Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 13 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
2

Total granted

$1.8M
$29k

Still filing today

85%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $360k · revenue +15%
  • Washington and Lee University
    6× · 2020–2025 · $139k · revenue +134%
  • WV
    WEST VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    5× · 2021–2025 · $106k · revenue +192%

Funded once

  • WI
    WVU - INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • WV
    WEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $14k
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.

04Its field

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.

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Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

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2
Washington & Jefferson College

To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.

Education
3
Waynesburg University

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…

Education
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
Roberts Wesleyan University

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.

Education
6
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
7
Wofford College

The purpose of wofford college is to function as a liberal arts institution of superior quality. its chief concern is the development of an intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic atmosphere in which serious and inquiring minds of students…

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8
Washington University of Virginia

Provides seminary, under-graduate, graduate, doctoral, and other continuing education programs

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9
Widener University

Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.

Education
10
University of Lynchburg

The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…

Education
11
Westminster College

The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…

Education
12
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Virginia University Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC: $359,900 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INCWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $314,080 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCWashington and Lee University: $138,500 · EducationWashington and Lee UniversityDAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE: $115,400 · EducationDAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGEBETHANY COLLEGE: $100,500 · EducationBETHANY COLLEGEWEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $89,200 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGEUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $67,100 · EducationTHE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE: $67,100 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $62,510 · Education+1 more: $42,700 · EducationRANDOLPH COLLEGE: $144,000 · OtherRANDOLPH COLLEGEJOSEPH H HODGES SCHOLARSHIP FUND CO BB&T: $140,300 · OtherJOSEPH H HODGES SCHOLARSHIP FU…WEST VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $105,900 · OtherWEST VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF OSTEOP…STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA: $73,510 · OtherSTATE OF WEST VIRGINIA+2 more: $28,600 · Other+2 more
Education$1,356,990Other$492,310

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC: $359,900 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $314,080 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJOSEPH H HODGES SCHOLARSHIP FUND CO BB&T: $140,300 over 6y, 82% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $138,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE: $115,400 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $105,900 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetBETHANY COLLEGE: $100,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $89,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $67,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE: $67,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $62,510 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetALDERSON BROADDUS UNIVERSITY INC: $42,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
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 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JOSEPH H HODGES SCHOLARSHIP FUND CO BB&T ↗
  • Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
  • Who funds DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WEST VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds BETHANY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALDERSON BROADDUS UNIVERSITY INC ↗

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.

The Greater Kanawha V…National Collegiate A…West Virginia Indepen…Albert a Christ Schol…Ritton Family Foundat…West Virginia Univers…The West Virginia Hum…Claude Worthington Be…Ibm International Fou…Enterprise Holdings F…Verizon FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…
The Greater Kanawha Valley FoundationWV17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · West Virginia Independent Colleges and Universities Inc · Albert a Christ Scholarship Fund 1403 · Ritton Family Foundation · West Virginia University Research Corporation · The West Virginia Humanities Council Inc · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wv Emulation Endowment Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wv Emulation Endowment Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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