West Virginia · Nonprofit
WEST VIRGINIA COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC
WEST VIRGINIA COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being GEORGE W BOWERS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WEST VIRGINIA COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Your Community Foundation of North Central Wv Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The West Virginia Humanities Council Inclocalportfolio match
- Robinson S Parlin Trustshared funders
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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: 2020 17% · 2021 5% · 2022 4% · 2023 15% · 2024 22% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of WEST VIRGINIA COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of WEST VIRGINIA COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM 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.
Where its funders are
100% of WEST VIRGINIA COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC's grant income comes from West Virginia funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Your Community Foundation of North Central Wv Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchWV · backs 7 organizations that share your funders · funds 5 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The West Virginia Humanities Council Inclocalportfolio matchWV · funds 2 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Robinson S Parlin Trustshared fundersWV · backs 7 organizations that share your funders
- Hs & Cg Patterson Jr Char Fd Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Strong-Treister Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Phillips Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sacred Heart Childrens Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Washington County Tourism Promotion Agencyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Waynesboro Beneficial Fund Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Laurel Highlandsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Truist West Virginia Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like WEST VIRGINIA COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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 WEST VIRGINIA COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC?
- WEST VIRGINIA COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being GEORGE W BOWERS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEST VIRGINIA COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to WEST VIRGINIA COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST VIRGINIA COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC?
- GEORGE W BOWERS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST VIRGINIA COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing