West Virginia · Nonprofit
ELK RIVER TRAIL FOUNDATION INC
ELK RIVER TRAIL FOUNDATION INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,699 to it, the largest being DR OM & RUTH A HARPER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundationshared funderslocal
- Partnership for the National Trails System Incportfolio match
- Rails to Trails Conservancyportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $50k → $3k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ELK RIVER TRAIL FOUNDATION 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.
How concentrated its funding is
ELK RIVER TRAIL FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 50% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
51% of ELK RIVER TRAIL FOUNDATION 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. $199 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundationshared funderslocalWV · backs 23 organizations that share your funders · funds 185 organizations near you
- Partnership for the National Trails System Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rails to Trails Conservancyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Wilderness Stewardship Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Trailsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- K & A Spease Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gil Moore Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rei Cooperative Action Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Forever Our Rivers Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wet Mtn Valley Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Forest Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Rail Heritage Trust First Option Bank Trusteeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding ELK RIVER TRAIL FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Appalachian Regional Commission$1.4M
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 ELK RIVER TRAIL FOUNDATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ELK RIVER TRAIL FOUNDATION 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ELK RIVER TRAIL FOUNDATION INC?
- ELK RIVER TRAIL FOUNDATION INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,699 to it, the largest being DR OM & RUTH A HARPER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELK RIVER TRAIL FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $102,699 in grants to ELK RIVER TRAIL FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELK RIVER TRAIL FOUNDATION INC?
- DR OM & RUTH A HARPER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELK RIVER TRAIL FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing