How do I find funders for a housing nonprofit in West Virginia?

Start with the funders already giving to housing in West Virginia, currently The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc, Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, Generation West Virginia Inc. Then look at who funds the housing organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into West Virginia from out of state.

Who is the largest housing funder in West Virginia?

The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc gives the most to housing organizations in West Virginia, $10M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to housing in West Virginia?

$26M reached 25 housing organizations in West Virginia, from 88 funders. 17% came from funders also based in West Virginia.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · West Virginia · Housing

Who funds housing in West Virginia

Funding is concentrated: Coalfield Development Corporation alone draws 82% of every housing grant dollar in West Virginia. Most of it comes from outside West Virginia: only 17% is from funders based in the state, so national funders set the agenda here.

$26M

granted

organizations

17%

from in-state

The short version

88 funders gave $26M to 25 housing organizations in West Virginia across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
17% of that came from funders also based in West Virginia; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of housing in West Virginia is The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc, at $10M.
The housing organization drawing the most is Coalfield Development Corporation, at $21M.

Largest funders of housing in West Virginia

The funders giving the most to housing organizations in West Virginia, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc$10M 2Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation$2M 3Generation West Virginia Inc$2M 4The Andrew W Mellon Foundation$2M 5New Venture Fund$2M 6West Virginia Community Action Partnersh$951k 7Impactassetsinc$856k 8Gitlab Foundation$800k 9Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation$724k 10The Educational Foundation of America$508k

Housing organizations in West Virginia that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

Coalfield Development Corporation$21M Communityworks in West Virginia Inc$1M Eastern West Virginia Community Action$967k

15 other housing organizations$751k

How to find housing funders in West Virginia

1
Start with the funders already active in West Virginia
The funders giving the most to housing in West Virginia are The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc, Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, Generation West Virginia Inc. A funder already writing housing checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the housing organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
83% of housing money in West Virginia comes from funders elsewhere, so national housing funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in West Virginia.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a housing nonprofit in West Virginia?: Start with the funders already giving to housing in West Virginia, currently The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc, Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, Generation West Virginia Inc. Then look at who funds the housing organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into West Virginia from out of state.
Who is the largest housing funder in West Virginia?: The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc gives the most to housing organizations in West Virginia, $10M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to housing in West Virginia?: $26M reached 25 housing organizations in West Virginia, from 88 funders. 17% came from funders also based in West Virginia.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.