West Virginia · Private foundation
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
- 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.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $109k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $5k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $158k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $168k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $148k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $151k | 35% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $135k | 21% |
| FY2017 | 28 | $149k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Horse Center Foundation | $180,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Kentucky Horse Park Foundation Inc | $164,676 | 5 | 2% |
| Christ Episcopal Church | $65,800 | 6 | n/a |
| Bluefield Arts and Revitalization Corporation | $35,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Mercer County Fellowship Home Inc | $22,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Big Creek People in Action Inc | $21,121 | 7 | 1% |
| Second Chance for Cats Inc | $18,200 | 7 | 3% |
| Bluefield University | $16,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Community Connections Inc | $14,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Children's Home Society of West Virginia Inc | $13,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
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.
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How this is measured
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.
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
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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.
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