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K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$109k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 31
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$2.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving16$109k19%
FY20241$5k100%
FY202323$158k22%
FY202227$168k22%
FY202126$148k19%
FY202031$151k35%
FY201828$135k21%
FY201728$149kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$408kArts & Culture$165kHealth$75kReligion$72kEducation$71kAnimals$48kHuman Services$41kCommunity Improvement$23kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 32 grantees
All grantees of K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Virginia Horse Center Foundation$180,00061%
Kentucky Horse Park Foundation Inc$164,67652%
Christ Episcopal Church$65,8006n/a
Bluefield Arts and Revitalization Corporation$35,00031%
Mercer County Fellowship Home Inc$22,00073%
Big Creek People in Action Inc$21,12171%
Second Chance for Cats Inc$18,20073%
Bluefield University$16,25030%
Community Connections Inc$14,00060%
The Children's Home Society of West Virginia Inc$13,50050%
Charleston Ballet Inc$13,00071%
Mercer County Historical Society Inc$9,5005n/a
Mercer County Humane Society$9,00035%
Carnegie Hall Inc$7,50050%
West Virginia Symphony Orchestra Inc$7,00020%
Southwest Virginia Community College (Swcc College)$6,0002n/a
Pet Haven and Rescue Center$6,0003n/a
Concord University Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Mercer County Fair Inc$5,000518%
McDowell County Commission on Aging Inc$5,00010%
Helpful Harvest Food Bank$5,00011%
Bluefield Union Mission Inc$4,00030%
Tender Mercies Ministries of Princeton$4,00031%
Bluefield High School Foundation$3,0001n/a
Child Protect of Mercer County Inc$3,00030%
Richlands Area Citizens for the Arts$2,50012%
Clinch Valley Community Action Inc$2,00010%
CHARLES T CHUCK MATHENA II co RICHARD L DAVIS$2,00010%
Speaking of Horses LLC$1,5001n/a
Westminster at Wade Inc$1,5001n/a
4 Pals Productions Inc$1,0001n/a
Hinton Area Foundation Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($368k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVirginia Horse Center Foundation: $180,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetKentucky Horse Park Foundation Inc: $164,676 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetBluefield Arts and Revitalization Corporation: $35,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMercer County Fellowship Home Inc: $22,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetBig Creek People in Action Inc: $21,121 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetSecond Chance for Cats Inc: $18,200 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetBluefield University: $16,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Connections Inc: $14,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Children's Home Society of West Virginia Inc: $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCharleston Ballet Inc: $13,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetMercer County Humane Society: $9,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetCarnegie Hall Inc: $7,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWest Virginia Symphony Orchestra Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetConcord University Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMercer County Fair Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetMcDowell County Commission on Aging Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHelpful Harvest Food Bank: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBluefield Union Mission Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTender Mercies Ministries of Princeton: $4,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetChild Protect of Mercer County Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRichlands Area Citizens for the Arts: $2,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetClinch Valley Community Action Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLES T CHUCK MATHENA II co RICHARD L DAVIS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHinton Area Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The H P and Anne S Hunnicutt FoundationWV30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The H P and Anne S Hunnicutt Foundation · Hugh I Shott Jr Foundation Inc · The 1912 Charitable Foundation · Frank Litz Smoot Charitable Trust · The Pace Family Foundation Inc · Skewes Family Foundation · The Stelio and Betty Tracy Corte Charitable Foundation · The Credit Bureau of the Virginias Foundation Inc · The Paul & Carol Cole Foundation Inc · Preservati Family Char Tr Fdn · Ethel N Bowen Foundation · United Way of Southern Wv Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust

How much does K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust give?
K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust reported 16 grants totaling $108,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (40%), Arts & Culture (16%), Health (7%).
Who are K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Virginia Horse Center Foundation ($180k), Kentucky Horse Park Foundation Inc ($165k), Christ Episcopal Church ($66k).
Does K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The H P and Anne S Hunnicutt Foundation, Hugh I Shott Jr Foundation Inc, The 1912 Charitable Foundation.
Where is K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust based?
K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust is based in WV.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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