· Private foundation
The Paul & Carol Cole Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $112k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLUEFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY | $60,000 |
| BLUEFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY | $52,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $43,000 |
| WV COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR WOMEN INC | $37,000 |
| WOMEN'S CENTER OF MERCER COUNTY INC | $32,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY OF MERCER COUNTY | $7,500 |
| BLUEFIELD BEAUTIFICATION CORPORATION | $5,500 |
| BLUE RIDGE JUNIOR GOLF TOUR | $5,000 |
| BLUEFIELD ARTS AND REVITALIZATION CORPORATION | $4,260 |
| WESTMINISTER AT WADE | $4,000 |
| DOGWOOD THEATRICALS | $3,290 |
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 (FY25–26, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of The Paul & Carol Cole Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in WV; by stated purpose, 77%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2026, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BSBLUEFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +129%
- BRBlue Ridge Junior Golf Tour Inc3× · 2024–2026 · $15k · revenue +31%
- WAWESTMINSTER AT WADE INC2× · 2022–2026 · $6k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- MCMERCER COUNTY SCHOOLSone grant, 2025 · $6k
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $5k
- MAMountain Acres Properties Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +139% · 27% of their budget
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.
The organization is dedicated to breaking the cycle of domestic violence and building a community free of abuse. the mission of the organization is to support and respond to the needs of survivors of violence and/or abuse as well as their…
Assist low-income families in purchasing homes in the local area.
Animal welfare
We are a ministry that serves women and children who are homeless, who need accountability for sober living or who are recovering from domestic violencwe
Retrieve, house & relocate animals
To serve as the primary planning and coordinating body to promote
Blue Mountain Escape Inc. provides health human and social services to men and women with substance use disorders. We provide safe and structured housing and recovery support services for individuals reentering society from incarceration…
To provide a refuge for residents in mercer county ohio who are struggling with addiction
Providing the shelter and counseling for the abused women and children
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 27 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 WOMENS CENTER OF MERCER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BLUEFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE RIDGE RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds Blue Ridge Junior Golf Tour Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUEFIELD ARTS AND REVITALIZATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER AT WADE INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain Acres Properties Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE FOR CATS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PRINCETON LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds DOGWOOD THEATRICALS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MERCER COUNTY FELLOWSHIP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECT OF MERCER COUNTY INC ↗
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: K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust · Hugh I Shott Jr Foundation Inc · The Stelio and Betty Tracy Corte Charitable Foundation · Timken Foundation of Canton · Celanese Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Paul & Carol Cole Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Paul & Carol Cole Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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