· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| WEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $3,000 |
| SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| THE SANDERS HOUSE | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 MERCER COUNTY FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds McDowell County Commission on Aging Inc ↗
- Who funds Helpful Harvest Food Bank ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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