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Tc Energy 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2023
7
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.

Public Safety & Disaster$4.3MEducation$3.1MArts & Culture$2.4MEnvironment$1.8MRecreation & Sports$1.6MCommunity Improvement$1.4MHealth$1.4MFood & Nutrition$1.2MOther$0
02FY2023 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $41k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $700k
  • $250k+2 grants · $550k
$200,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON$300,000
COMP-U-DOPT INC$250,000
GREATER HOUSTON PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION$200,000
GREATER HOUSTON PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION$200,000
NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION$200,000
PROGRESSIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION$100,000
PRAIRIE VIEW A&M FOUNDATION$41,423
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $620k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PLUMBERS AND STEAMFITTERS LOCAL 598 BIKES FOR TIKES CHARITY: $5k → 11%NORTH CENTRAL OHIO LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $10k → 15%THE HEALING HOUSE INC: $13k → 18%SPOKANE VALLEY PARTNERS: $5k → 12%SPOKANE VALLEY PARTNERS: $5k → 12%CHILD BRIDGE INC: $5k → 18%DELIVERANCE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC: $5k → 22%NONPAREIL INSTITUTE: $15k → 5%GARFIELD COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY COUNCIL INC: $5k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FINDING ASSOCIATION: $10k → 16%NESTLINGS: $10k → 8%WAVE PROJECT: $5k → 10%OPERATION BBQ RELIEF: $25k → 8%VITENDO 4 AFRICA: $5k → 11%FAITH BRIDGE: $10k → 17%THE MINISTRY CENTER INC: $5k → 17%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF ST JOSEPH: $50k → 18%VETERANS OUTREACH OF WISCONSIN: $15k → 10%MARINETTE COUNTY ELDERLY SERVICES: $5k → 12%CASA OF CENTRAL OREGON: $5k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS - CASCADES REGION: $10k → 12%DRESS FOR SUCCESS MEMPHIS: $20k → 17%DOORS OF HOPE TRANSITION MINISTRIES: $8k → 18%WILD HORSE BUTTE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5k → 31%EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC: $5k → 9%JEFF DAVIS COMMUNITIES AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $8k → 19%CHILD BRIDGE INC: $5k → 18%CRITTER BARN: $10k → 8%LITTLE HANDS INC: $5k → 14%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 18%GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC: $10k → 10%NORTHWOODS WOMEN INC DBANEW DAY ADVOCACY CENTER: $7k → 14%SAVING GRACE IMAGINE LIFE WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $5k → 10%DRESS FOR SUCCESS NORTHERN NEW JERSEY-10 COUNTIES INC: $20k → 4%PETER-PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $30k → 9%WILD HORSE BUTTE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5k → 31%EASTER SEALS NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $10k → 7%CRITTER BARN: $10k → 8%EAST TEXAS HUMAN NEEDS NETWORK: $15k → 12%EMERGENCY AID CENTER INC: $6k → 25%EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC: $15k → 12%EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC: $14k → 12%WASHINGTON CITY MISSION INC: $15k → 12%EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER: $8k → 12%WASHINGTON CITY MISSION INC: $10k → 12%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $30k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS-CENTROS FAMILIARES DE LA COMUNIDAD: $20k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 305 repeat orgs$9.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

305 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 301 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

305
1105

Total granted

$12M
$9.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+13%

Still filing today

56%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Public Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • GH
    Greater Houston Partnership Foundation
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +57%
  • CI
    COMP-U-DOPT INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $680k · revenue +286%
  • PV
    PRAIRIE VIEW A&M FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $141k · revenue +224%

Funded once

  • LC
    LEWIS & CLARK COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $125k
  • FD
    FEDERAL DAM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2021 · $55k
  • WC
    WALSH COUNT SHERIFF'S OFFICE
    one grant, 2020 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Wilderness Volunteer Fire Department Inc

WVFD provides fire suppression and rescue services to the communities of Nicholas County, WV and surrounding areas.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Weaverland Valley Fire Department

Fire prevention and protection

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Lewisburg Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Fire protection for the City of Lewisburg, WV and surrounding areas

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4
Kountze Volunteer Fire Department

Provide Fire Protection and Emergency Services

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Nokesville Volunteer Fire Department

Fire and rescue services

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Devils Lake Rural Fire Dept Inc

Fire Department

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7
Garretson Volunteer Fire Department

The Garretson Volunteer Fire Department serves the City of Garretson and surrounding communities in Eastern South Dakota. The Department is made up completely of volunteer fireman and is responsible for roughly 100 square miles within its…

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Van Dyne Volunteer Fire Department

Provide fire protection and first responder services to the towns of black wolf and friendship, wisconsin

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9
Flemington Volunteer Fire Department Inc

To provide volunteer fire fighting services in the flemington, wv region.

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10
Millers Creek Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer fire department

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11
Waterfront Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer fire department

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Cherry Mountain Volunteer Fire

Fire and emergency services

Public Safety & Disaster

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minuteman Disaster Response Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Smith-Barbieri Progressive Fund a Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsLocal Food System Organizat…Community College Foundatio…Youth Development CentersSchool Parent OrganizationsYouth Sports ProgramsAffordable Housing Developm…Animal Rescue and ShelterYmca Youth DevelopmentSchool District FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyYouth Mentoring ProgramsCancer Support ServicesPublic Library OperationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community Arts CentersSenior Support ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Elementary Literacy TutoringPregnancy Support ServicesAddiction Recovery ServicesAffordable Housing Construc…Independent K-12 SchoolsYouth Development ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Equine Therapy ProgramsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Faith-Based Social ServicesCommunity Food PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …United Way AffiliatesDomestic Violence ServicesLocal History MuseumsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Military Veterans SupportCommunity FoundationsFood Banks and Pantries
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%16%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%35%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%9%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%14/744
the rest of the field
13%
240,383/1,818,821

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

597 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 597 of the 1,423 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
157
Early backer (in before they grew)
575/597
Grantees still filing
392/597
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOND DU LAC BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR CHIPPEWA — $2,090,000 · OtherFOND DU LAC BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR CHIPPEWALEECH LAKE BAND OF OJIBWE — $2,025,000 · OtherLEECH LAKE BAND OF OJIBWEUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON — $485,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON+131 more — $4,113,031 · Other+131 moreCOMP-U-DOPT INC — $680,000 · EducationCOMP-U-DOPT …PRAIRIE VIEW A&M FOUNDATION — $141,423 · EducationPRAIRIE VIEW…WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $80,000 · EducationWEST VIRGINI…+16 more — $438,492 · Education+16 moreGreater Houston Partnership Foundation — $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementGreater H…+5 more — $108,500 · Community Improvement+5 moreCOALITION TO RESTORE COASTAL LOUISIANA — $60,000 · EnvironmentCoastal Prairie Conservancy — $60,000 · EnvironmentCONSUMER ENERGY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $55,000 · EnvironmentNevada Outdoor School — $50,000 · EnvironmentSEEDS — $50,000 · EnvironmentLIVING LANDS & WATERS — $45,000 · EnvironmentHOUSTON WILDERNESS INC — $40,000 · EnvironmentWILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC — $35,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $35,000 · EnvironmentCOAL RIVER GROUP INC — $35,000 · EnvironmentRESTORING LANDS INC — $25,000 · EnvironmentLANDMARK CONSERVANCY INC — $25,000 · EnvironmentGREEN UMBRELLA — $24,000 · EnvironmentINLAND NORTHWEST LAND TRUST — $23,000 · Environment+4 more — $81,013 · EnvironmentYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ST JOSEPH — $60,000 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON — $40,000 · Human ServicesEAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC — $36,500 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON CITY MISSION — $31,200 · Human ServicesPETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION BBQ RELIEF — $25,000 · Human ServicesCRITTER BARN — $20,000 · Human ServicesExchange Club - Carl Perkins Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS NORTHERN NJ-10 COUNTIES INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS MEMPHIS — $20,000 · Human ServicesSHENANDOAH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY — $35,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNEW BETHLEHEM FIREMENS COMPANY NO 1 — $33,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMissions on Wheels Inc — $31,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION OF HOUSTON — $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterKENOVA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT — $23,000 · Public Safety & DisasterPINES FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $22,700 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE GANDY COMMUNITY CLUB AND VOLUNTEER FIRE HALL I — $20,125 · Public Safety & DisasterNew Martinsville Volunteer Fire Dept — $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSt John Volunteer Fire Dept Inc — $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMOSELEYVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT — $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION — $200,000 · Recreation & SportsWOODLANDS CONSERVANCY — $39,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$8,713,031Education$1,339,915Community Improvement$1,108,500Environment$643,013Human Services$322,700Public Safety & Disaster$249,825Recreation & Sports$239,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGreater Houston Partnership Foundation — $1,000,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetCOMP-U-DOPT INC — $680,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPRAIRIE VIEW A&M FOUNDATION — $141,423 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $135,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROGRESSIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetTEXAS WILDLIFE REHABILITATION COALITION INC — $81,320 over 3y, 12% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Excellence in Education — $70,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ST JOSEPH — $60,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOALITION TO RESTORE COASTAL LOUISIANA — $60,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCoastal Prairie Conservancy — $60,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS RIVER CITIES INC — $60,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetCONSUMER ENERGY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetANGELS OF ACTION INC — $54,200 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetNevada Outdoor School — $50,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS — $50,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSMART NORTH — $49,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNESTQUEST HOUSTON INC — $45,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetHope For The Warriors — $45,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLIVING LANDS & WATERS — $45,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMSRW Mackinaw Straits Raptor watch — $41,905 over 3y, 16% of budgetNOONDAY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $41,344 over 3y, 40% of budgetBismarck State College Foundation — $40,142 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMEMORIAL ES PARENTAL TEACHER ORGANI ZATION — $40,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston — $40,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON — $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHOUSTON WILDERNESS INC — $40,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetClendenin Volunteer Fire Department — $40,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetWOODLANDS CONSERVANCY — $39,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWharncliffe Volunteer Fire Department — $38,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetTHE TURTLE SURVIVAL ALLIANCE FOUNDATION — $37,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetEAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC — $36,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLACKAWANNA COLLEGE — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHENANDOAH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY — $35,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $34,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNEW BETHLEHEM FIREMENS COMPANY NO 1 — $33,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetWASHINGTON CITY MISSION — $31,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMissions on Wheels Inc — $31,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetFLINT-GRESHAM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $30,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS COLUMBUS — $30,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTrees For Houston — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

The Avista FoundationAlbert & Ethel Herzst…Encova Foundation of …Centerpoint Energy Fo…The Greater Kanawha V…Marathon Petroleum Fo…Harry S & Isabel C Ca…Nisource Charitable F…Peoples Bank Foundati…Feeding AmericaWisconsin Public Serv…German American Found…
The Avista FoundationWA27.7× affinity23 shared granteesties to 2 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Avista Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Marathon Petroleum Foundation Inc · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Peoples Bank Foundation · Feeding America · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · German American Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Tc Energy Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center Inc — 68% of income from government
  • Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Ridge and Valley Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
65report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Tc Energy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Tc Energy 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 1423 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines