Foundation for the Tri-State
Ashland, KY · EIN 61-0729266. Reported 119 grants totalling $2,178,397 to 65 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 Foundation for the Tri-State, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 65 distinct organizations, with 10% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 56% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $16,738; the smallest was $5,230 and the largest $179,629. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
1 of those grants was non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $159,215 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paramount Arts Center Inc | Ashland, KY | $213,344 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| City of Huntington Foundation Inc | Huntington, WV | $182,848 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fairfield Community Development Corporation | Huntington, WV | $175,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Highlawn Community Alliance Inc | Huntington, WV | $138,750 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Highlands Museum & Discovery Inc | Ashland, KY | $78,508 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ashland Area Young Mens Christian Association | Ashland, KY | $77,756 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Fisher House | Huntington, WV | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Huntington Museum of Art Inc | Huntington, WV | $68,500 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| John W Hereford Boys and Girls Clubs of Huntington Inc | Huntington, WV | $63,793 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cabell Huntington Hospital Foundation Inc | Huntington, WV | $63,412 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Heritage Farm Foundation | Huntington, WV | $55,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Greater Huntington Park & Recreation District | Huntington, WV | $51,804 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| First Church of the Nazarene | Huntington, WV | $51,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cross Road Correctional Ministries | Grand Rapids, MI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kentucky Educational Television Foundation Inc | Lexington, KY | $47,819 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Brothers & Big Sisters of the Tri-State Inc | Huntington, WV | $40,919 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boyd County Fiscal Court | Catlettsburg, KY | $38,853 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ashland Community Kitchen Inc | Ashland, KY | $36,162 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Goodwill Industries of Kyowva | Huntington, WV | $36,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Goodwill Industries of Kyowva Area Inc | Huntington, WV | $36,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Safe Harbor of Northeast Kentucky Inc | Ashland, KY | $29,925 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Renewall Inc | Huntington, WV | $28,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Caney Creek Community Center | Pippa Passes, KY | $27,039 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Huntington Symphony Orchestra Association Inc | Huntington, WV | $26,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Lilys Place | Huntington, WV | $26,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Western Wv Animal Rescue Alliance | Huntington, WV | $26,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Huntington YMCA Foundation Inc | Huntington, WV | $23,789 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Christian Associates | Huntington, WV | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| First Church of God | Morehead, KY | $21,960 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| First Presbyterian Church | Ashland, KY | $21,292 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Digdeep Right to Water Project | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hopes Place Inc | Ashland, KY | $18,772 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Huntington City Mission | Huntington, WV | $16,738 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Huntington Inc | Huntington, WV | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Community Assistance Referral Services Inc | Ashland, KY | $15,936 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Dig Deep | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wv Alliance of Recovery Residences | Charleston, WV | $14,550 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kings Daughters Health Foundation Inc | Ashland, KY | $13,357 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Huntington West Virginia Scottish Rite of Frcemasonry Foundation Inc | Huntington, WV | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Wild Ramp | Huntington, WV | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tri-State Early College STEM | South Point, OH | $11,536 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Huntington Childrens Museum Inc | Huntington, WV | $10,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boyd County Ky 4H Youth Developmen | Catlettsburg, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Childrens Home Society of West Virginia | Charleston, WV | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ebenezer Medical Outreach | Huntington, WV | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| First Presbyterian Church | Charleston, WV | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jack and the Bean Inc | Huntington, WV | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jesse Stuart Foundation Inc | Ashland, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Woman at the Well Ministries | Milton, WV | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| First Book | Washington, DC | $9,425 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Developmental Therapy Center Inc | Huntington, WV | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mountwest Community & Tech College | Kenova, WV | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tristate Family Connections Inc | Proctorville, OH | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Morehead First Church of the Nazare | Morehead, KY | $6,831 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tri-State Family Connections | Proctorville, OH | $6,541 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Marshall Univ Campus Christian Cntr | Huntington, WV | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cabell County Public Library | Huntington, WV | $6,184 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pallottine | Huntington, WV | $6,097 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hospice of Huntington Inc | Huntington, WV | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Keith Albee Performing Arts Centerinc | Huntington, WV | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Team for West Virginia Children Inc | Huntington, WV | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| River Cities Harvest Inc | Ashland, KY | $5,994 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| CASA of Northeast Ky Inc | Ashland, KY | $5,253 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ceredo-Kenova Elementary School | Kenova, WV | $5,230 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Huntington Middle School | Huntington, WV | $5,230 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
25 of 65 (38%) 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 kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 34 of 65 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 | 25 | $422,931 | $9,425 |
| 2022 | 25 | $526,866 | $12,770 |
| 2023 | 25 | $679,719 | $12,500 |
| 2024 | 44 | $548,881 | $10,000 |
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
63% 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 $10,000 -- 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 Foundation for the Tri-State'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: Po Box 2096, Ashland, KY, 41105.
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