West Virginia · Nonprofit
WordPlay Connects
WordPlay Connects (West Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,500 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($81,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
WordPlay Connects runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,673 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,673 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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.
- Your Community Foundation of North Central Wv Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Farms Work Wonders Corporationlocal
- Benevolent Association of Pottsvilleportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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 WordPlay Connects’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 WordPlay Connects’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
WordPlay Connects leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 WordPlay Connects.
“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
92% of WordPlay Connects'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 $8k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside West Virginia, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81k 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 Community Foundation of North Central Wv Incshared fundersportfolio matchWV · backs 9 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Farms Work Wonders CorporationlocalWV · funds 3 organizations near you
- Benevolent Association of Pottsvilleportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of the Virginias Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sunstone Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Snowshoe Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Walter Payne Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William a Cooke Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sacred Heart Childrens Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tucker Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Home Library Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Book Foundation Incportfolio 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.
Organizations like WordPlay Connects
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 WordPlay Connects: 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 WordPlay Connects?
- WordPlay Connects (West Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,500 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($81,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WordPlay Connects have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $88,500 in grants to WordPlay Connects.
- Who is the largest funder of WordPlay Connects?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $81,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WordPlay Connects 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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