Virginia · Private foundation
Tesco Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $248k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 71
- Grants FY2024
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 65 to 97
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Tesco Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 65 | $248k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 65 | $209k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 69 | $242k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 87 | $253k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 80 | $216k | 5% |
| FY2019 | 97 | $227k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 95 | $242k | 31% |
| FY2017 | 85 | $237k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Christopher's School Foundation | $117,850 | 8 | 0% |
| The Valentine Museum | $90,750 | 8 | 1% |
| The Richmond Ballet | $76,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Anna Julia Cooper School | $68,700 | 8 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Richmond Sports Backers | $57,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Greater Richmond Partnership Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| 1708 Gallery Inc | $41,675 | 6 | 3% |
| Historic Richmond Foundation | $41,000 | 8 | 1% |
| William & Mary Foundation | $39,675 | 1 | 0% |
| Medical College of Va Foundation | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 124 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($497k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Tesco Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 119 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Robins Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Williams Mullen Foundation
How this is measured
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About Tesco Foundation
- How much does Tesco Foundation give?
- Tesco Foundation reported 71 grants totaling $247,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 65 and 97 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Tesco Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Education (26%), Religion (7%).
- Who are Tesco Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: St Christopher's School Foundation ($118k), The Valentine Museum ($91k), The Richmond Ballet ($76k).
- Does Tesco Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tesco Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Tesco Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, Robins Foundation, Herndon Foundation.
- Where is Tesco Foundation based?
- Tesco Foundation is based in VA.
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