Tucker Community Foundation
Parsons, WV · EIN 55-0687098. Reported 102 grants totalling $5,409,751 to 38 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Tucker Community Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 38 distinct organizations, with 44% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 83% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $12,678. Half of what it reported fell between $8,500 and $30,950; the smallest was $5,060 and the largest $745,626. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Parsons | Parsons, WV | $2,370,354 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Parsons Park Board Inc | Parsons, WV | $1,146,263 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Five Rivers Library | Parsons, WV | $414,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Tucker County Schools | Parsons, WV | $155,020 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Garrett Mentors Inc | Oakland, MD | $135,249 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Davis Health System Foundation Inc | Elkins, WV | $115,261 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Elkins-Randolph County Public Library Inc | Elkins, WV | $114,519 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Disabled Sports USA | Snowshoe, WV | $71,033 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| West Virginia Univ Foundation Inc | Morgantown, WV | $69,250 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Tucker Co Historical Society Incorporated | Hambleton, WV | $57,508 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Philippi Public Library | Philippi, WV | $54,753 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Snow Sports Museum of West Virginia | Davis, WV | $52,152 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church of Red House | Oakland, MD | $50,967 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hospice Care Corporation Dba Wv Caring | Arthurdale, WV | $50,035 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Tucker County Family Resource Network Inc | Parsons, WV | $49,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Wvu Medicine Children's | Davis, WV | $46,700 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Belington Public Library | Belington, WV | $40,499 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Appalachian Expeditions | Davis, WV | $36,625 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Canaan Valley Volunteer Fire Department Inc | Davis, WV | $34,950 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mountaintop Public Library | Thomas, WV | $33,559 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Randolph County Schools | Elkins, WV | $33,548 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| City of Davis | Davis, WV | $32,814 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Legion Auxiliary | Belington, WV | $28,816 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mountain Laurel Learning Cooperative | Davis, WV | $28,550 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Randolph County Childrens Advocacy Center Inc | Elkins, WV | $27,088 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| First Parsons United Methodist Church | Parsons, WV | $22,418 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Blackwater Ministerial Association | Thomas, WV | $18,786 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| St George Medical Clinic Inc | Parsons, WV | $18,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Youthbuild North Central Wv | Elkins, WV | $17,131 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Vision Renewable Energy Inc | Philippi, WV | $13,372 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Preston County Schools | Kingwood, WV | $12,862 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Travis Phillip Moreland Foundation Inc | Ridgeley, WV | $12,394 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pioneer Memorial Public Library | Harman, WV | $9,096 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mountain Hospice Inc | Belington, WV | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Twenty-Ten Corporation Inc | Davis, WV | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Davis Volunteer Fire Department Inc | Davis, WV | $7,245 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Parsons Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated | Parsons, WV | $6,300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of Blackwater Inc | Thomas, WV | $6,134 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
27 of 38 (71%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Parsons Park Board Inc
GENERAL SUPPORT FOR PARKS - Tucker County Family Resource
CHILD FEEDING, PARENTING PROGRAM
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 12 of 38 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 24 | $1,249,175 | $12,883 |
| 2022 | 23 | $1,303,423 | $12,862 |
| 2023 | 27 | $1,234,744 | $11,000 |
| 2024 | 28 | $1,622,409 | $16,858 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
97% of its giving went to organizations in West Virginia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $12,678 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in West Virginia.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Tucker Community Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: P O Box 491, Parsons, WV, 26287.
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