United Way Alliance of the
Parkersburg, WV · EIN 55-0403123. Reported 70 grants totalling $916,611 to 31 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For United Way Alliance of the, the IRS classifies it as a fundraising and fund-distribution organization (NTEE T12).
- How spread out its giving is. 31 distinct organizations, with 12% 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.
- How much its list changes. 60% 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 $11,500. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $18,940; the smallest was $5,334 and the largest $31,250. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oneill Senior Center Inc | Marietta, OH | $111,181 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Eve Incorporated | Marietta, OH | $77,755 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| National Foundation for Consumer Credit Inc | Parkersburg, WV | $71,940 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Wood County Society Inc | Parkersburg, WV | $58,443 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Parkersburg, WV | $53,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Family Crisis Intervention Center of Region V Inc | Parkersburg, WV | $52,900 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Boys Club of Parkersburg Inc | Parkersburg, WV | $47,172 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Community Resources Inc | Parkersburg, WV | $47,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Caring Connection Inc | Marietta, OH | $41,278 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Childrens Home Society of West Virginia | Charleston, WV | $31,950 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| North Star Child Advocacy Center Inc | Parkersburg, WV | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Red Cross Mov | Parkersburg, WV | $26,548 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Boys & Girls Club of Washington County | Marietta, OH | $24,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Young Mens Christian Association | Parkersburg, WV | $22,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sw Resources | Parkersburg, WV | $20,928 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Belpre Area Ministries Inc | Belpre, OH | $19,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mid-Ohio Valley Fellowship Home Inc | Parkersburg, WV | $19,112 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Pleasants County Inc | St Marys, WV | $18,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Gopacks | Marietta, OH | $17,750 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ely Chapman Education Foundation | Marietta, OH | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Washington County Harvest of Hope | Marietta, OH | $16,834 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Community Action Prgm Corp of Washington-Morgan Counties Ohio | Marietta, OH | $14,115 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Catholic Charities West Virginia Inc | Wheeling, WV | $12,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Pleasants Co | Saint Marys, WV | $10,240 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Recovery Point of Hunting Inc | Huntington, WV | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| West Virginia Univ Foundation Inc | Morgantown, WV | $8,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 4-H Clubs & Affiliated 4-H Organizations | Parkersburg, WV | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boys & Girls Club Pleasants Co | St Marys, WV | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sw Resources Inc | Parkersburg, WV | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mov Healh Dept Oral | Parkersburg, WV | $6,863 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Childrens Listening Place | Parkersburg, WV | $5,852 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
19 of 31 (61%) 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.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- O'neil Senior Center
TO UNITE COMMUITIES, AND TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 16 of 31 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 18 | $241,411 | $12,177 |
| 2021 | 15 | $175,100 | $11,750 |
| 2022 | 21 | $276,850 | $11,500 |
| 2023 | 16 | $223,250 | $11,250 |
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
63% 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.
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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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $11,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in West Virginia.
- 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.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from United Way Alliance of the's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 404 Market Street, Parkersburg, WV, 26101.
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