· Community foundation
Tucker Community Foundation
Public foundation to benefit tucker county, west virginia.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 28 grants below total $1,622,409 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,826,047 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,203,638 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $410k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $128k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF PARSONS | $745,626 |
| PARSONS PARK BOARD INC | $273,189 |
| FIVE RIVERS LIBRARY | $127,700 |
| SNOW SPORT MUSEUM OF WV | $46,238 |
| ST JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCH | $39,436 |
| WVU MEDICINE CHILDREN'S | $38,300 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ELKINSRANDOLPH PUBLIC LIBRARY | $36,818 |
| GARRETT MENTORS | $33,688 |
| TUCKER COUNTY SCHOOLS | $32,450 |
| MOUNTAINTOP PUBLIC LIBRARY | $27,253 |
| DAVIS HEALTH SYSTEMS | $26,710 |
| RANDOLPH COUNTY SCHOOLS | $26,148 |
| MOUNTAIN LAUREL LEARNING CO-OP | $19,636 |
| CHALLENGED ATHLETES OF WV | $17,345 |
| PHILIPPI PUBLIC LIBRARY | $16,372 |
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 (FY18–24, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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 +15% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- DHDAVIS HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $166k · revenue +177%
- GMGARRETT MENTORS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $135k · revenue +1% · 51% of their budget
- DSDISABLED SPORTS USA-CHALLENGED ATHLETES OF WV7× · 2017–2024 · $108k · revenue +78% · 33% of their budget
Funded once
- GCGRANT COUNTY COMMISSIONone grant, 2017 · $50k
- GCGRANT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCone grant, 2017 · $50k
- WMWVU MEDICINE CHILDREN'Sone grant, 2022 · $47k
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.
Providing public fire protection and emergency rescue services.
Mission for burnsville vfd burnsville wv the burnsville vfd provides fire protection fire safety and emergency rescue services to the citizens in its designated area. bvfd serves in a safe efficient manner serving all stakeholders.
WVFD provides fire suppression and rescue services to the communities of Nicholas County, WV and surrounding areas.
To serve the new creek fire district of mineral county, wv; to provide fire protection and fire suppression services to the area; to provide basic and advanced life support to the community with utilization of two ambulances and other…
Volunteer fire company providing fire protection and emergency rescue services to hardy county, wv
To provide volunteer fire, rescue and ambulance services to the residents of the counties of jefferson and berkeley, wv.
To provide volunteer fire, rescue and ambulance service to the mountain area of jefferson county, wv and surrounding areas.
To provide volunteer fire, rescue & emergency services to the community of reader wv.
Fire fighting
Fire and rescue services
Fire protection for the City of Lewisburg, WV and surrounding areas
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parsons Volunteer Fire Department Incorporation and the most unlike its peers is Davis Volunteer Fire Department Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 55 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 DAVIS HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GARRETT MENTORS INC ↗
- Who funds DISABLED SPORTS USA-CHALLENGED ATHLETES OF WV ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE CARE CORPORATION D/B/A WEST VIRGINIA CARING ↗
- Who funds Tucker County Family Resource Network Inc ↗
- Who funds CANAAN VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INCER PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHEAT INC ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Expeditions Inc ↗
- Who funds POTOMAC HIGHLANDS FOOD AND FARM INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Mountain Laurel Learning Cooperative ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH COUNTY COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds KUMP EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW VISION RENEWABLE ENERGY 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: Oakland Foundation Inc · Pallottine Foundation of Buckhannon West Virginia · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Tucker Community Foundation 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.