2026 Tyson Fund grant recipients. (Provided Photo) (Versailles, IN) – Tyson Fund Trustees celebrated the 170th birthday of “Uncle” Jim Tyson Monday night by awarding nine Versailles area nonprofits a total of $766,160 during the annual distribution in the Tyson Methodist Church sanctuary. The man known as Uncle Jim, James H. Tyson, used $74,000 in Walgreens stock in the 1930s to set up a trust fund that specifically benefits the citizens of his …
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