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Tarver Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$55k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
7%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 19
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$850k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 7% of the organizations Tarver Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving17$55k6%
FY202315$53k7%
FY202216$55k6%
FY202115$48k0%
FY202015$40k13%
FY201915$31k20%
FY201819$31k5%
FY201719$28kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$156kHealth$76kPhilanthropy$37kHuman Services$27kEducation$20kFood & Nutrition$7kMembership Benefit$4kArts & Culture$250Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

OH
CA
KY
AZ
AR
TN
MS
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc$46,00070%
The Baptist Childrens Village$20,5008n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$12,50070%
Mississippi Children's Home Society$9,50030%
French Camp Academy$8,50080%
Mississippi Food Network Inc$6,75080%
Greenville Cemetery Assn Inc$4,00081%
American Heart Association Inc$3,25060%
Christian Student Fellowship Inc$2,5001n/a
200 Million Flowers Inc$1,50033%
Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Tarver Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc$46,00070%
The Baptist Childrens Village$20,5008n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$12,50070%
Mississippi Children's Home Society$9,50030%
French Camp Academy$8,50080%
Mississippi Food Network Inc$6,75080%
Greenville Cemetery Assn Inc$4,00081%
American Heart Association Inc$3,25060%
Christian Student Fellowship Inc$2,5001n/a
200 Million Flowers Inc$1,50033%
Parkview Church of God$1,5002n/a
American Cancer Society Inc$50020%

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($223k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tarver Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc: $46,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $12,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMississippi Children's Home Society: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFrench Camp Academy: $8,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMississippi Food Network Inc: $6,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGreenville Cemetery Assn Inc: $4,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $3,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budget200 Million Flowers Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% 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 9.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Tarver Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Tarver Foundation 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 Tarver Foundation

How much does Tarver Foundation give?
Tarver Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $55,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Tarver Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (46%), Health (22%), Philanthropy (11%).
Who are Tarver Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc ($46k), The Baptist Childrens Village ($21k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($13k).
Does Tarver Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Tarver Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Tarver Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is Tarver Foundation based?
Tarver Foundation is based in KY.

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 28 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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