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United Way of the Greenbrier Valley Inc

Lewisburg, WV · EIN 55-0665618. Reported 81 grants totalling $1,314,622 to 46 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

46organizations funded
$10,000median reported grant
$1,314,622granted, 2021-2024
70%of grantees funded again the next year
34%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For United Way of the Greenbrier Valley Inc, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P20Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 46 distinct organizations, with 34% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 70% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $9,950 and $12,500; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $253,543. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
21 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
56 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
1 grant
$250,000 Or More
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Greater Greenbrier Valley Community FoundationLewisburg, WV$447,658332024
Monroe County Coalition for Children & Families IncUnion, WV$51,000332024
Appalachia Service Project IncJohnson City, TN$45,000332024
Seed Sower IncMeadow Bridge, WV$42,500332024
Monroe Early Childhood Association IncUnion, WV$40,500332024
Shepherds Center of Greenbrier ValleyLewisburg, WV$40,000332024
Communities in Schools of Greenbrier CountyLewisburg, WV$39,000332024
Pocahontas County Senior Citizens IncMarlinton, WV$34,000332024
Carnegie Hall a CorporationLewisburg, WV$33,500222023
Greenbrier County Child & Youth Advocacy CenterLewisburg, WV$33,000332024
Bethlehem Farm IncTalcott, WV$31,000332024
Marvel Center IncRupert, WV$31,000332024
CASA of the Greenbrier Valley IncLewisburg, WV$30,000332024
Pocahontas County Family Resource NetworkMarlinton, WV$30,000332024
Greenbrier Repertory Theatre CompanyLewisburg, WV$29,500332024
Alderson Hospitality House Land Trust IncAlderson, WV$29,480332024
Kanawha Hospice Care IncCharleston, WV$25,500222023
Family Refuge Center IncLewisburg, WV$22,000222023
Wellspring WvRupert, WV$20,000222024
Greenbrier County Committee on Aging IncRupert, WV$16,500222024
Appalachian Service ProjectJohnson City, TN$15,000112021
Monroe County Coalition for Children and FamiliesUnion, WV$13,000112021
Fruits of LaborRainelle, WV$12,500112021
Shepherd's Center of Greenbrier ValleyLewisburg, WV$12,500112021
Family Refuge CenterLewisburg, WV$11,000112021
Monroe County Day Care CenterUnion, WV$10,500112021
Bethlehem FarmAlderson, WV$10,000112021
Child and Youth Advocacy CenterLewisburg, WV$10,000112021
Davis-Stuart IncLewisburg, WV$10,000112023
Greenbrier County Committee on AgingRupert, WV$10,000112021
Hospice CareLewisburg, WV$10,000112021
Pocahontas County Family Resource NetworkMarlinton, WV$10,000112021
Pocahontas County Senior CitizensMarlinton, WV$10,000112021
West End Youth Sports League IncRainelle, WV$9,484112022
Alderson Hospitality HouseAlderson, WV$9,000112021
CASA AssociationLewisburg, WV$9,000112021
Communities in SchoolsLewisburg, WV$9,000112021
Marvel Center IncRupert, WV$9,000112021
Carnegie HallLewisburg, WV$8,000112021
Greenbrier County SchoolsLewisburg, WV$8,000112022
Gateway Industries IncRonceverte, WV$7,500112023
Greenbrier Valley TheatreLewisburg, WV$7,000112021
Greenbrier County Universal Pre-KLewisburg, WV$6,500112021
Reining Warriors IncSinks Grove, WV$6,000112023
Monroe Health CenterUnion, WV$5,500112024
West Virginia 211 IncParkersburg, WV$5,000112023

20 of 46 (43%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 4 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 21 of 46 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
12 orgs
Recreation & Sports
2 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Housing & Shelter
1 org
Youth Development
1 org
Community Improvement
1 org
Arts & Culture
1 org
Mental Health
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202119$192,000$10,000
202221$236,209$10,000
202323$436,520$11,000
202418$449,893$11,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

95% of its giving went to organizations in West Virginia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

West Virginia
$1.3M
Tennessee
$60K

Down to the city

Lewisburg, WV
$776K
Union, WV
$120K
Rupert, WV
$86K
Marlinton, WV
$84K
Johnson City, TN
$60K
Alderson, WV
$48K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation16 shared recipientsHollowell Dawkins Foundation Inc13 shared recipientsThe Daywood Foundationinc6 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund5 shared recipientsMary B Nickell Foundation Inc4 shared recipientsFirstenergy Foundation4 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in West Virginia.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from United Way of the Greenbrier Valley Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 18 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 572, Lewisburg, WV, 24901.

EIN 55-0665618 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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