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· Public charity

Tamarack Foundation Inc

To foster, enhance, and extend the cultural heritage of west virginia by providing services and opportunities to west virginia artisans.

$40k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$83kCommunity Improvement$20kHuman Services$15kEducation$8kHousing & Shelter$8k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $20,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $40,060 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $20,060 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$395k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRANT COUNTY CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU$10,000
ARTS MONONGAHELA INC$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%GRANT COUNTY CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU: $10k → 14%ARTS MONONGAHELA INC: $10k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Lewisburg Foundation Incorporated
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2
Red River Economic Development

Economic Development and Tourism Promotion in Eastern Kentucky

Community Improvement
3
Create Appalachia

Intergrating arts and technology for the benefit of our region

Public Benefit
4
Virginia's Heritage Music Trail the Crooked Road

To generate tourism and economic development in the appalachian region of southwest virginia by focusing on the region's unique musical heritage.

Arts & Culture
5
Rivers Way Outdoor Adventure
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6
Summit Chamber Music Series Inc
Arts & Culture
7
Wind River Valley Artist Guild
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8
Wise County Va Chamber of Commerce

The organization's activities are centered around promoting the area in order to attract new business and tourism. all residents of the service area benefit from the activities of the organization.

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9
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

Vcca's mission is to provide time and space for national and international writers, visual artists, and composers of talent and promise to bring forth their finest works, because the arts are vital, diversity is a strength, and creativity…

Arts & Culture
10
Go West Virginia Inc

Go West Virginia, Inc. is dedicated to advocating and educating the public on issues including economic growth and job creation. We will develop and advance an agenda for West Virginia to promote real policy solutions to create jobs,…

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11
Wilkes Playmakers Inc

Provide cultural and artistic programs for the public of Wilkes County, NC and the surrounding area

Arts & Culture
12
The West Virginia Chamber Foundation
Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Step By Step Inc; the most unlike its peers is Coda Mountain Academy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ELKINS MAIN STREET INC: $10,000 · OtherELKINS MAIN STREET INCTHE HEART OF WEST VIRGINIA: $10,000 · OtherTHE HEART OF WEST VIRGINIACITY OF SMITHERS: $7,500 · OtherCITY OF SMITHERSBIG CREEK PEOPLE IN ACTION INC: $7,500 · OtherBIG CREEK PEOPLE IN ACTION INCNATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN FEDERATION: $7,500 · OtherNATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN FEDERATIONARTS MONONGAHELA INCORPORATED: $10,000 · Arts & CultureARTS MONONGAHELA INCORPORAT…LOVE HOPE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $7,500 · Arts & CultureLOVE HOPE CENTER FOR THE AR…WEST VIRGINIA MINE WARS MUSEUM: $7,500 · Arts & CultureWEST VIRGINIA MINE WARS MUS…GUITARS IN THE CLASSROOM: $7,500 · Arts & CultureGUITARS IN THE CLASSROOMSTEP BY STEP INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesSTEP BY STEP…RECONNECTING MCDOWELL INC: $7,500 · EducationRECONNECTING…Coda Mountain Academy Inc: $7,500 · EducationCoda Mountai…Grant County Convention Visitors: $10,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CHERRY RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOALFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $7,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$42,500Arts & Culture$32,500Human Services$15,000Education$15,000Community Improvement$10,000Philanthropy$10,000Housing & Shelter$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTEP BY STEP INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetELKINS MAIN STREET INC: $10,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetGrant County Convention Visitors: $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetARTS MONONGAHELA INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetTHE CHERRY RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetRECONNECTING MCDOWELL INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOALFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCoda Mountain Academy Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBIG CREEK PEOPLE IN ACTION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA MINE WARS MUSEUM: $7,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGUITARS IN THE CLASSROOM: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

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 Greater Kanawha V…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Greater Kanawha Valley FoundationWV13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tamarack Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tamarack Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 15 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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