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ProVision Foundation Inc

Provision Foundation exists to benefit,perform the functions of and carry out the purposes of the National Christian Charitable Foundation, Inc. (NCF) in accordance with the purposes, goals and objectives of NCF.

$1.8M
Granted FY2017
5
Grants FY2017
5
Organizations funded FY2017
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52% of ProVision Foundation Inc’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year ProVision Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

5
’17
4
’18
4
’19
3
’20
4
’21
2
’22
3
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2017
$188,728
Largest grant, FY2017
$1,200,000
States reached, FY2017
2
80% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$1.2MCommunity Improvement$711kPhilanthropy$132kHousing & Shelter$95kReligion$44kInternational$26kEducation$20kYouth Development$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Proton Therapy Center LLC$1,200,00014%
Rephidim Inc$1,103,391576%
Equitas Group Inc$672,054257%
The Restoration House$75,00044%
Core Leadership$44,293149%
National Christian Foundation Inc$40,0004n/a
Strategic Cities Foundation$38,98623%
Plies$20,00021%
The Restoration House of East Tennessee$20,00021%
Second Mile Haiti$16,21012%
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All grantees of ProVision Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Proton Therapy Center LLC$1,200,00014%
Rephidim Inc$1,103,391576%
Equitas Group Inc$672,054257%
The Restoration House$75,00044%
Core Leadership$44,293149%
National Christian Foundation Inc$40,0004n/a
Strategic Cities Foundation$38,98623%
Plies$20,00021%
The Restoration House of East Tennessee$20,00021%
Second Mile Haiti$16,21012%
The Change Center$10,00011%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($416k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

ProVision Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Proton Therapy Center LLC: $1,200,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetRephidim Inc: $1,103,391 over 5y, 76% of budgetEquitas Group Inc: $672,054 over 2y, 57% of budgetThe Restoration House: $75,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetCore Leadership: $44,293 over 1y, 49% of budgetStrategic Cities Foundation: $38,986 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetPlies: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe Restoration House of East Tennessee: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSecond Mile Haiti: $16,210 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetThe Change Center: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to ProVision Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to ProVision Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About ProVision Foundation Inc

How much does ProVision Foundation Inc give?
ProVision Foundation Inc reported 5 grants totaling $1,815,732 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does ProVision Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (32%), Community Improvement (19%), Philanthropy (4%).
Who are ProVision Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: The Proton Therapy Center LLC ($1.2M), Rephidim Inc ($1.1M), Equitas Group Inc ($672k).
Which funders back the same organizations as ProVision Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is ProVision Foundation Inc based?
ProVision Foundation Inc is based in TN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $48k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2017, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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