West Virginia · Nonprofit
TAMARACK FOUNDATION INC
TAMARACK FOUNDATION INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $619,638 to it, the largest being CLAUDE WORTHINGTON BENEDUM FOUNDATION ($240,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $428k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $620k
- Net assets
- $374k
What Tamarack Foundation Inc does
Mission
To foster, enhance, and extend the cultural heritage of west virginia by providing services and opportunities to west virginia artisans. The foundation's purposes are purely education and charitable.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Help create and deliver business development, arts and crafts training, and artisan relief aid programs to benefit artisan entrepreneurs.
$371,281 spentof which $40,060 as grants$11,102 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $371,281.
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 2020 to 2021, from $441k to $605k (+37%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 79% · 2018 55% · 2019 75% · 2020 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of TAMARACK FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Renee Margocee
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $8k → $102k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 TAMARACK FOUNDATION INC’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
TAMARACK FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 36% · 2019 63% · 2020 84% · 2021 94% · 2022 42% · 2023 64% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of TAMARACK FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
TAMARACK FOUNDATION INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside West Virginia, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $103k 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
TAMARACK FOUNDATION INC is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding TAMARACK FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- Appalachian Regional Commission$1.2M
- National Endowment for the Arts$365k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like TAMARACK FOUNDATION INC
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.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TAMARACK FOUNDATION INC: 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 TAMARACK FOUNDATION INC?
- TAMARACK FOUNDATION INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $619,638 to it, the largest being CLAUDE WORTHINGTON BENEDUM FOUNDATION ($240,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TAMARACK FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $619,638 in grants to TAMARACK FOUNDATION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TAMARACK FOUNDATION INC?
- CLAUDE WORTHINGTON BENEDUM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $240,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TAMARACK FOUNDATION INC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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