· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BLUEFIELD ARTS & REVITALIZATION CORP | $10,000 |
| MERCER COUNTY FELLOWSHIP HOME | $6,500 |
| CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF | $5,000 |
| BIG CREEK PEOPLE IN ACTION | $5,000 |
| CHARLESTON BALLET INC | $3,000 |
| THE SANDERS HOUSE | $3,000 |
| SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $3,000 |
| Clinch Valley Community Action Inc | $2,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WV | $2,000 |
| THE WADE CENTER | $2,000 |
| SECOND CHANCE FOR CATS | $1,500 |
| Speaking of Horses LLC | $1,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- VHVIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2025 · $180k · revenue +79%
- MCMERCER COUNTY FELLOWSHIP HOME INC7× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +24%
- BCBIG CREEK PEOPLE IN ACTION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $25k
- TOTown of Athensone grant, 2022 · $25k
- FLFishburne Learning Centerone grant, 2023 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide direct financial support to agencies, organizations and governmental units in support of the fine arts in harrison county, wv
Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv
Provide social services to a nine-county area of central kentucky.
The prevention of cruelty to animals through pet adoption, education, and spay/neuter programs within the community of mercer county, kentucky.
The west virginia chamber of commerce provides opportunities for broad based prosperity throughout west virginia.
Community health center
Promote and advance decent, safe and sanitary housing for persons of low and moderate income, the elderly, disadvantaged or infirm, in the cabell- wayne counties and surrounding metropolitan area of west virginia.
To identify and serve the cultural needs of the community and to develop and present quality arts programs through the preservation and operation of the historic mishler theatre
Support the arts locally through local cultural experiences
Finding committed, permanent homes for companion animals in our community; measurably reducing companion animal overpopulation; educating and promoting humane values.
Provide comprehensive primary medical care to the communites served.
To promote the arts in caldwell county, nc
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Connections Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bluefield High School Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 27. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEFIELD ARTS AND REVITALIZATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MERCER COUNTY FELLOWSHIP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds BIG CREEK PEOPLE IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE FOR CATS INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds MERCER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE HALL INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Helpful Harvest Food Bank ↗
- Who funds McDowell County Commission on Aging Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCER COUNTY FAIR INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.