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Who funds public benefit in West Virginia

Most of it comes from outside West Virginia: only 14% is from funders based in the state, so national funders set the agenda here.

$15M
granted
44
organizations
14%
from in-state

The short version

Largest funders of public benefit in West Virginia

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

1Democracy Fund Inc$1M2American Center$1M3State Policy Network$712k4Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Incorporated$610k5The Ford Foundation$600k6Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3522$590k7The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation$579k8The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc$510k9John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation$500k10Working Families Organization Inc$453k

Public benefit organizations in West Virginia that draw the most

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

For West Virginia's Future Inc$3MRural Digital Youth Resiliency Project$3MWest Virginia Center on Budget and Policy Inc$3MCardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy Inc$2M
34 other public benefit organizations$1M
West Virginia Citizen Action Group$781kVeterans of Foreign Wars Post 3522$590kWV Cant Wait Votes a Non-Profit Corporation$351k

How to find public benefit funders in West Virginia

  1. 1
    Start with the funders already active in West Virginia

    The funders giving the most to public benefit in West Virginia are Democracy Fund Inc, American Center, State Policy Network. A funder already writing public benefit checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.

  2. 2
    See who funds organizations like yours

    Open the public benefit 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. 3
    Add the out-of-state funders reaching in

    86% of public benefit money in West Virginia comes from funders elsewhere, so national public benefit funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in West Virginia.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a public benefit nonprofit in West Virginia?
Start with the funders already giving to public benefit in West Virginia, currently Democracy Fund Inc, American Center, State Policy Network. Then look at who funds the public benefit organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into West Virginia from out of state.
Who is the largest public benefit funder in West Virginia?
Democracy Fund Inc gives the most to public benefit organizations in West Virginia, $1M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to public benefit in West Virginia?
$15M reached 44 public benefit organizations in West Virginia, from 104 funders. 14% 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 unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
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

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; 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.