West Virginia · Nonprofit
WEST VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH SOLUTIONS INC
WEST VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH SOLUTIONS INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $484,000 to it, the largest being CLAUDE WORTHINGTON BENEDUM FOUNDATION ($405,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $222k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $484k
- Net assets
- $22k
What West Virginia Alliance for Creative Health Solutions Inc does
Mission
West virginia alliance for creative health solutions (wvachs) is a primary care practice-based research network (pbrn) leading patient-centered and community-oriented research to bring solutions to priority health disparities and health issues in the state.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Health care research and dissemination:the west virginia alliance for creative health solutions, inc. (wvachs) is a statewide network of clinicians, researchers, and community partners working to improve health care across west virginia, especially for people and communities that face the greatest barriers to care. Efforts are focused on practical research that stems from questions in clinics and communities. In 2025, wvachs continued to build this work across a range of priority issues, including chronic disease, obesity, infectious disease, access to care, environmental health, and prevention. By the close of calendar year 2025, wvachs had 12 active or ongoing research projects. These included projects such as: "perceived water safety and elevated liver enzymes in rural west virginia, which explores how drinking water concerns may influence health behaviors and liver outcomes "statewide youth vaping prevention in west virginia: two-year outcomes of catch my breath, which evaluates the reach and impact of a school-based vaping prevention program "ongoing work on hepatitis c treatment access, racial bias in pulse oximetry, and community-based obesity and nutrition interventions…
$49,517 spentof which $24,000 as grants30% of program spendingResearch mentorship program: the wvachs research mentorship program is one of the main ways the network helps build the future of health care and research in west virginia. Through this program, clinicians partner with students and other learners on research projects. The goal is to give learners meaningful hands-on experience while also helping clinician-led projects move forward. In calendar year 2025, the program supported 8 accepted mentorship projects. Across the 7 projects with completed 2025 evaluation data, mentors documented work with 22 learners, including 9 medical students and 13 students and trainees from health professions and related fields. These projects addressed real-world challenges facing west virginia communities. Examples include: "research on water quality and health, including its connection to liver disease and beverage choices "research examining racial bias in pulse oximetry and its potential impact on diagnosis and care "research focused on hepatitis c treatment access and patient engagement in care "ongoing research related to obesity, nutrition, and food is medicine programming "evaluation of a youth vaping prevention program these projects are…
$3,196 spentof which $2,500 as grants2% of program spendingAppalachian pulmonary health project (aphp): the wvachs continues to serve as fiscal sponsor for the appalachian pulmonary health project (aphp). The aphp is a peer network of west virginia respiratory therapists and health advocates committed to the four goals of primary prevention of chronic lung diseases, expanding access to high quality pulmonary testing and pulmonary rehabilitation in rural areas, and care coordination for persons with chronic lung disease. In 2025, the aphp incorporated as a west virginia non-profit and obtained irs 501c3 status. The respiratory therapists of aphp continue to provide pulmonary rehabilitation services at 11 rural hospitals and clinics around the state. Aphp has foundation and private funding to support transportation and coinsurance costs so that more rural patients can receive these services. Working in partnership with the wv american lung association and the state health department, aphp delivered the catch my breath vaping prevention curriculum to over 9000 students, grades 5-8, in 33 counties and 58 schools. Aphp has foundation funding to provide school and teacher incentives to encourage delivery of the catch my breath curriculum. With…
$110,698 spent68% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $163,411.
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 $64k to $382k (+497%).
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.
87% of WEST VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH SOLUTIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
April Vestal Mph
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $75k → $138k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 WEST VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH SOLUTIONS 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
WEST VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH SOLUTIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 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
WEST VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH SOLUTIONS INC draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside West Virginia, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
WEST VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH SOLUTIONS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WEST VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH SOLUTIONS 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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
36%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH SOLUTIONS INC?
- WEST VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH SOLUTIONS INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $484,000 to it, the largest being CLAUDE WORTHINGTON BENEDUM FOUNDATION ($405,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEST VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH SOLUTIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $484,000 in grants to WEST VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH SOLUTIONS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH SOLUTIONS INC?
- CLAUDE WORTHINGTON BENEDUM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $405,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR CREATIVE HEALTH SOLUTIONS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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