West Virginia · Nonprofit
APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF WEST VIRGINIA INC
APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF WEST VIRGINIA INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $369,137 to it, the largest being WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION ($369,137). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $985k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $369k
- Net assets
- $11k
What Applied Research Foundation of West Virginia Inc does
Mission
To foster, support, participate in and assist in any research and economic development activities in furtherance of the educational objectives and mission of bluefield state college.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The corporation is organized to operate as a non-profit corporation exclusively for charitable, educational & scientific purposes. It fosters, supports, participates in and assists in any research and economic development activities in furtherance of the educational objectives and mission of bluefield state college.
$880,633 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $880,633.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $273k to $444k (+63%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 98% · 2024 98% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF WEST VIRGINIA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $7k → $72k.
From the IRS filings of APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF WEST VIRGINIA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF WEST VIRGINIA INC's grant income comes from West Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF WEST VIRGINIA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF WEST VIRGINIA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$8.4M
- Department of the Interior$68k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF WEST VIRGINIA INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In West Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Bluefield State College · exempt
- Bluefield State College Research and Development Corporation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF WEST VIRGINIA INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF WEST VIRGINIA INC?
- APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF WEST VIRGINIA INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $369,137 to it, the largest being WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION ($369,137). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF WEST VIRGINIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $369,137 in grants to APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF WEST VIRGINIA INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF WEST VIRGINIA INC?
- WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $369,137 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like APPLIED RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF WEST VIRGINIA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing