FundersWest Virginia

Touma Foundation Inc

Huntington, WV · EIN 55-0718768. Reported 65 grants totalling $269,900 to 31 organizations across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,500median grant
$269,900granted, 2020-2024
31organizations funded
61%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,052,436assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Touma Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $5,000; the smallest was $300 and the largest $27,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
10 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
35 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
12 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
7 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Marshall University FoundationHuntington, WV$105,000552024
Huntington Museum of ArtHuntington, WV$35,500442024
United WayHuntington, WV$17,500332024
Cabell Huntington Hospital FoundationHuntington, WV$16,500332024
Holy Spirit ChurchHuntington, WV$14,500222023
Marshall Artist SeriesHuntington, WV$10,500222023
WING2WING FoundationHuntington, WV$10,000222024
St Patrick's Episcopal Day SchoolWashington, DC$8,000552024
Family Medicine Foundation of WvBarboursville, WV$6,000332024
Studio TheaterWashington, DC$5,500442024
Aao-Hns FoundationAlexandria, VA$5,000112023
Coalition for the HomelessNew York, NY$5,000112024
Greater Huntington Park & Recreation DistrictHuntington, WV$4,000222023
Cabell Huntington Coalition for the HomelessHuntington, WV$3,000112021
Maderia FoundationMclean, VA$3,000442024
National Cathedral SchoolWashington, DC$3,000222024
National Homelessness Law CenterWashington, DC$3,000332024
Facing Hunger FoodbankHuntington, WV$2,000222021
Shriners Children HospitalRanson, WV$2,000222021
Holy Spirit Orthodox ChurchHuntington, WV$1,500112020
Huntington Childrens MuseumBarboursville, WV$1,500112022
Goodwill IndustriesHuntington, WV$1,000112021
Heritage Farm FoundationHuntington, WV$1,000112020
Loveland FoundationBrooklyn, NY$1,000222024
Save the Children FoundationFairfield, CT$1,000222024
St Jude Children HospitalMemphis, TN$1,000112020
St Jude Children's Research HospitalMemphis, TN$1,000112022
City of Huntington FoundationHuntington, WV$600112024
Hospice of HuntingtonHuntington, WV$500112024
St Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church CorpNaples, FL$500112020
Epilipsy Foundation of WvCharlottesville, VA$300112021

18 of 31 (58%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 61%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 23 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
5 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Arts & Culture
4 grants
Recreation & Sports
2 grants
International Affairs
2 grants
Civil Rights
2 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant
Religion
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202010$47,500$1,250
202110$44,800$1,000
202214$67,000$2,000
202315$60,500$2,000
202416$50,100$1,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 86% of this one's giving went to organizations in West Virginia. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

West Virginia
$233K
District of Columbia
$20K
Virginia
$8K
New York
$6K
Tennessee
$2K
Connecticut
$1K
Florida
$500

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal 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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc11 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund10 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc8 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America7 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust7 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program6 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in West Virginia.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Touma Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 911 3RD Ave Suite 210, Huntington, WV, 25701. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 55-0718768 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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