West Virginia · Nonprofit
JEFFERSON COUNTY FOUNDATION INC
JEFFERSON COUNTY FOUNDATION INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,740 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($33,100). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $106k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $114k
- Net assets
- $48k
What Jefferson County Foundation Inc does
Mission
Public Charity
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Promote effective and accountable environmental regulation to protect air quality, the human health and environment that rely on it, and reduce environmental injustice in Jefferson County and the surrounding area. We monitor, evaluate, comment on, and when indicated challenge PSD and and Title V Air permits considered by WVDEP. In 2024 this work included but was not limited to the following actions: Advocating for improved PSD permits and monitoring for Title V air permits for a new major air emission source; Continued an appeal of a PSD permit with the Air Quality board including an evidentiary hearing; Worked with citizens to monitor permitted sites and when indicated filed citizen complaints to the WVDEP requesting inspections of facilities; Published a newsletter informing the public of opportunities to engage in the permitting process; Retained experts to evaluate permit applications, disseminated this information to the public, and submitted technical public comment to the WVDEP.
$36,371 spent49% of program spendingTo promote the protection of the health, heritage, and the environment in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, we continued our water monitoring program. This year based on our pilot program we studied the PFOA/PFOS in groundwater wells in Jefferson and Berkeley Counties in WV. Pertinent results are published in the newsletter to keep the public informed.
$29,312 spent39% of program spendingPromote effective and accountable government, sustainable development, and the protection of health, heritage and the environment through evaluation of new development utilizing groundwater extraction and endangering the historic character of a historic resources on the national register of historic places. This work in 2024 included attorneys evaluating the legality of the concept plan for the development and the process. Filing of an emergency injection to stop a meeting that did not comply with the ordinance. Expert hydrogeologist evaluate the possible effects on the groundwater resources.
$5,548 spent7% of program spendingTo promote protection of health and the environment ran a spay/neuter and vaccinate program for community cats in Jefferson County.
$3,150 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $74,381.
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 $20k to $48k (+145%).
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.
100% of JEFFERSON COUNTY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $35 → $169.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 JEFFERSON COUNTY 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
JEFFERSON COUNTY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund JEFFERSON COUNTY FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 50% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
63% of JEFFERSON COUNTY FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $42k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside West Virginia, across 3 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is 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.
Against its field
JEFFERSON COUNTY FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,082 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,082 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like JEFFERSON COUNTY FOUNDATION 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.
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JEFFERSON COUNTY 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY FOUNDATION INC?
- JEFFERSON COUNTY FOUNDATION INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,740 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($33,100). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JEFFERSON COUNTY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $113,740 in grants to JEFFERSON COUNTY FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JEFFERSON COUNTY FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $33,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEFFERSON COUNTY 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.
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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 7 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing