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Tesco Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$248k
Granted FY2024still arriving
71
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$510kEducation$485kReligion$124kRecreation & Sports$106kPublic Benefit$104kCommunity Improvement$101kHealth$87kHuman Services$68kOther$0
02FY2024 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k61 grants · $108k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $139k
$1,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Greater Richmond Partnership$25,000
Venture Richmond Inc$20,000
St James's Episcopal Church$18,500
Maggie Walker Community Land Trust$15,000
The Valentine$10,750
Anna Julia Cooper School$10,000
VMFA Foundation$10,000
Dancing Classrooms of Greater Richmond$10,000
SPARC$10,000
1708 Gallery$10,000
Anna Julia Cooper School$8,300
St Christopher's School$5,500
Wason Center for Civic Leadership$5,000
The Valentine$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
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 (FY17–24, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OPERATION HEALING FORCES: $1k → 12%FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER: $1k → 6%THE SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF CHESTERFIELD: $4k → 7%THE SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF CHESTERFIELD: $3k → 7%THE SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF CHESTERFIELD: $3k → 7%THE SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF CHESTERFIELD: $3k → 7%THE SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF CHESTERFIELD: $3k → 7%YMCA Of Greater Richmond: $1k → 22%Westminster Canterbury Foundation: $4k → 9%WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $1k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $1k → 9%NextUp RVA: $1k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $1k → 9%Westminster Canterbury Foundation: $1k → 9%WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%UNITED METHODIST URBAN MINISTRIES OF RICH: $1k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1k → 9%NEXTUP RVA: $3k → 22%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $500 → 9%Commonwealth Catholic Charities: $500 → 9%ACTS (AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE): $7k → 22%NEXTUP RVA: $2k → 9%NextUp RVA: $2k → 9%NEXTUP RVA: $2k → 9%NEXTUP RVA: $2k → 9%NEXTUP RVA: $2k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA: $2k → 9%ACTS (AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE): $2k → 22%Children's Home Society of Virginia: $1k → 9%Shalom Farms: $1k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND: $6k → 22%Sportable: $2k → 22%YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND: $1k → 22%Sportable: $1k → 22%SPORTABLE: $1k → 22%SPORTABLE: $1k → 22%YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND: $1k → 22%YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND: $1k → 22%SPORTABLE: $1k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $1k → 22%YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND: $1k → 22%YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND: $500 → 22%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

PA
CT
CO
VA
NC
DC
LA
TX
FL

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 131 repeat orgs$166k to everyone else

131 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2024, 77 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

131
33

Total granted

$1.7M
$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+65%

Still filing today

69%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • SC
    ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $118k · revenue +134%
  • TV
    THE VALENTINE MUSEUM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $91k · revenue +176%
  • TR
    THE RICHMOND BALLET
    5× · 2017–2021 · $76k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • WM
    William & Mary Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +90%
  • PE
    PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION OF THE D OF C
    one grant, 2022 · $19k
  • A(
    ACTS (AREA CONGRAGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE)
    one grant, 2017 · $10k

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
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
2
Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce

Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.

—
3
Vcu Investment Management Company

To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…

Education
4
The Richmond Symphony

The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.

Arts & Culture
5
Vpm Media Corporation

To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…

Arts & Culture
6
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights
7
The Richmond Forum

To present powerful voices so richmond can learn. to empower local voices so richmond can lead.

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8
Virginia Association of Museums

The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".

Arts & Culture
9
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
10
Virginia Conservation Network

Vcn is a facilitator of strategic action, a resource for network partners statewide, and a constant preservation presence in richmond. playing a unique role in virginia's conservation community, vcn helps the community speak with one…

Environment
11
Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights
12
Richmond Art Center

To be a catalyst in Richmond for learning and living through art.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Richmond Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mr Mac 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 backsteadyRegional Business Developme…Faith-Based Community Servi…Independent Schools & Youth…Virginia Statewide Advocacy…Private Charitable Foundati…Affordable Housing & Reside…Diverse Social ServicesProfessional & Industry Ass…Arts & Culture Organizations
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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%6%5–10yr16%24%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr16%26%35–55yr14%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%4%5–10yr16%24%10–20yr15%28%20–35yr16%18%35–55yr14%26%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/124
the rest of the field
14%
485/3,533

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

119 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. 119 of the 175 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
45
Early backer (in before they grew)
114/119
Grantees still filing
84/119
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

St James's Episcopal Church — $90,500 · OtherSt James's Episcopal ChurchVMFA FOUNDATION — $51,500 · OtherVMFA FOUNDATION1708 Gallery Inc — $41,675 · OtherSPARC — $34,500 · OtherMAGGIE WALKER COMMUNITY TRUST — $30,000 · OtherGreater Richmond Partnership Inc — $50,000 · OtherGreater Richmond Partnership IncUNITE AMERICA INC — $27,000 · Other+87 more — $467,890 · Other+87 moreST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $117,850 · EducationST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL F…ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL — $68,700 · EducationANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOLWilliam & Mary Foundation — $39,675 · EducationWilliam & Mary FoundationMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION — $35,000 · EducationMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOU…ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER — $24,900 · EducationST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CEN…HENRICO EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EducationCristo Rey Richmond High School Inc — $16,000 · EducationVIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING FOUNDATION — $15,950 · Education+18 more — $86,975 · Education+18 moreTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM — $90,750 · Arts & CultureTHE VALENTINE MUSEUMTHE RICHMOND BALLET — $76,000 · Arts & CultureTHE RICHMOND BALLETHISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION — $41,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC RICHMOND FOU…DANCING SCHOLARS VIRGINIA — $29,000 · Arts & CultureDANCING SCHOLARS VIRG…Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation — $25,000 · Arts & CultureVirginia Museum of Fi…+19 more — $94,750 · Arts & Culture+19 moreMETROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS — $57,000 · Recreation & SportsPEOPLE CYCLE INC — $22,500 · Recreation & SportsMONROE PARK CONSERVANCY — $6,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF CHESTERFIELD — $14,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) — $12,500 · Human ServicesWESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION — $11,500 · Human ServicesNEXTUP RVA — $11,000 · Human ServicesAREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE — $8,500 · Human ServicesSPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC — $7,000 · Human ServicesPETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $5,750 · Human ServicesSHALOM FARMSINC — $5,400 · Human Services+5 more — $6,250 · Human ServicesVENTURE RICHMOND INC — $32,500 · Community ImprovementLEADERSHIP METRO RICHMOND — $16,000 · Community ImprovementRVA HAMPTON ROADS MEGA REGION COLLABORATIVE DBA RVA757 CONNECTS — $9,500 · Community ImprovementGROUNDWORK RVA INC — $7,500 · Community ImprovementTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF RICHMOND VIRGINIA INC — $3,250 · Community Improvement+3 more — $4,250 · Community ImprovementCAPITAL TREES — $23,100 · EnvironmentRICHMOND BRIDGEPARK FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EnvironmentJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION — $8,000 · EnvironmentLEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY — $2,000 · EnvironmentTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $2,000 · EnvironmentCAPITAL REGION LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $2,000 · Environment
Other$793,065Education$425,050Arts & Culture$356,500Recreation & Sports$86,000Human Services$81,900Community Improvement$73,000Environment$57,100

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $117,850 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM — $90,750 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetTHE RICHMOND BALLET — $76,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL — $68,700 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS — $57,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGreater Richmond Partnership Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budget1708 Gallery Inc — $41,675 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetHISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION — $41,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetWilliam & Mary Foundation — $39,675 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVENTURE RICHMOND INC — $32,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDANCING SCHOLARS VIRGINIA — $29,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetUNITE AMERICA INC — $27,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVirginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER — $24,900 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetCAPITAL TREES — $23,100 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetPEOPLE CYCLE INC — $22,500 over 6y, 43% of budgetHENRICO EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBETTER HOUSING COALITION — $17,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLEADERSHIP METRO RICHMOND — $16,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCristo Rey Richmond High School Inc — $16,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetVIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING FOUNDATION — $15,950 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCultureWorks Inc — $15,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC — $15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRICHMOND BRIDGEPARK FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetTHE MAGGIE WALKER COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF CHESTERFIELD — $14,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetCARITAS — $12,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) — $12,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION — $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY — $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE — $11,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEXTUP RVA — $11,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORIC PETERSBURG FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $9,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRVA HAMPTON ROADS MEGA REGION COLLABORATIVE DBA RVA757 CONNECTS — $9,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetRICHARD BLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $9,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMAYMONT FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetELEGBA FOLKLORE SOCIETY INC — $9,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetAREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE — $8,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBLACK HISTORY MUSEUM & CLT CTR — $8,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION — $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMr Mac Foundation — $8,000 over 8y, 100% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGROUNDWORK RVA INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC — $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDavidson College — $6,500 over 8y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE VALENTINE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THE RICHMOND BALLET ↗
  • Who funds ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS ↗
  • Who funds Greater Richmond Partnership Inc ↗
  • Who funds 1708 Gallery Inc ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds William & Mary Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VENTURE RICHMOND INC ↗
  • Who funds DANCING SCHOLARS VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds UNITE AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL TREES ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE CYCLE INC ↗
  • Who funds HENRICO EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BETTER HOUSING COALITION ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP METRO RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds Cristo Rey Richmond High School Inc ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CultureWorks Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC ↗
  • Who funds RICHMOND BRIDGEPARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MAGGIE WALKER COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF CHESTERFIELD ↗
  • Who funds CARITAS ↗

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…Robins FoundationHerndon FoundationDominion Energy Chari…The Mary Morton Parso…The Pauley Family Fou…Richard S Reynolds Fo…Robert G Cabell III a…Richmond Memorial Hea…Shelton H Short Jr Tr…Virginia Nonprofit Ho…Williams Mullen Found…
The Community Foundation IncVA122.2× affinity72 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Tesco 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%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    43report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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 Tesco Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Tesco 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 175 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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