West Virginia · Nonprofit
APPALACHIAN SOUTH FOLKLIFE CENTER
APPALACHIAN SOUTH FOLKLIFE CENTER (West Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,283 to it, the largest being TRUIST FOUNDATION INC ($9,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $87k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $27k
- Net assets
- $196k
What Appalachian South Folklife Center does
Mission
Community service and educational programs
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Volunteer rehabilitation/home repair program - service program for groups of volunteers led by trained professionals, are taught to perform critical repairs to the homes of local elderly, disabled, or otherwise in-need residents of summers county and surrounding areas.
$36,256 spent69% of program spendingLearning day camp program - educational summer camp and online workshops program providing low-income and at-risk children and teens with enriching educational activities and learning experiences. Offers online and take- home reading, history, art, science, and other educational materials, workshops, and content. 50+ youth.
$12,459 spent24% of program spendingCommunity education and support programs - workshops, camps, festivals, concerts, misc outreach events, performance art exhibits, agricultural workshops and networking, local heritage, and community wellness.
$3,531 spentof which $592 as grants7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $52,246.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $189k to $196k (+3%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
58% of APPALACHIAN SOUTH FOLKLIFE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $109.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of APPALACHIAN SOUTH FOLKLIFE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
APPALACHIAN SOUTH FOLKLIFE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
66% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund APPALACHIAN SOUTH FOLKLIFE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 63% · 2022 56% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
66% of APPALACHIAN SOUTH FOLKLIFE CENTER's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $9k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside West Virginia, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
APPALACHIAN SOUTH FOLKLIFE CENTER's revenue fell 34% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like APPALACHIAN SOUTH FOLKLIFE CENTER
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In West Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for APPALACHIAN SOUTH FOLKLIFE CENTER: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds APPALACHIAN SOUTH FOLKLIFE CENTER?
- APPALACHIAN SOUTH FOLKLIFE CENTER (West Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,283 to it, the largest being TRUIST FOUNDATION INC ($9,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does APPALACHIAN SOUTH FOLKLIFE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $27,283 in grants to APPALACHIAN SOUTH FOLKLIFE CENTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of APPALACHIAN SOUTH FOLKLIFE CENTER?
- TRUIST FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like APPALACHIAN SOUTH FOLKLIFE CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing