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The Tencarva Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Tencarva Charitable Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$19k
Granted FY2022
6
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Philanthropy$51kEducation$22kHuman Services$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kFood & Nutrition$7kHealth$7kHousing & Shelter$6kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0
02FY2022 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$9,799
UNITED WAY OF GREENSBORO$4,500
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$2,000
PRISMA HEALTH CANCER INST$2,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH$1,000
ATRIUM HEALTH LEVINE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SOME OTHER PLACE INC: $500 → 19%SEAMARK RANCH INC: $500 → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $200 → 14%BROOKHAVEN OUTREACH MINISTRY: $500 → 21%LOAVES AND FISHES-CHARLOTTE: $500 → 10%ROOM AT THE INN: $1k → 16%ROOM AT THE INN: $300 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MA
IA
VA
AR
TN
NC
SC
MS
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$97k · 11 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
44

Total granted

$97k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+16%

Still filing today

55%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterHealthPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UW
    United Way of Central Florida Inc
    6× · 2017–2022 · $34k · revenue +24%
  • RA
    ROOM AT THE INN INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1k · revenue +25%
  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHESTERFIELD
    2× · 2018–2019 · $1k · revenue +378%

Funded once

  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS OF WESTERN NC
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
2
The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas

The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.

Human Services
3
Farmer Foodshare Inc

Our mission is to increase access to fresh, local food for all while supporting the viability of marginalized farmers to create a more equitable food system.

Food & Nutrition
4
Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee

Second harvest food bank of east tennessee is dedicated to compassionately feeding east tennesseans experiencing hunger & engaging the community in the fight to eliminate hunger.

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5
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
6
Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc

To feed people by soliciting and distributing food and other products through partner agencies and educating the community about the nature of and solutions to problems of hunger.

Food & Nutrition
7
Feeding Southwest Virginia

To provide food and other related products primarily to member agencies for distribution to those in need, and also for direct distribution.

Food & Nutrition
8
Appling County Food Bank Inc

Our mission is to provide free food to needy families in appling county.

Food & Nutrition
9
Christian Food Bank of Hopkins County Inc

Provide food for the needy

Food & Nutrition
10
Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Inc

The mission of the regional food bank of oklahoma is to lead a network that provides nutritious food and pathways to self-sufficiency for people facing hunger. our vision is an oklahoma where no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
11
South Plains Food Bank Inc

The South Plains Food Bank, Inc. is a humanitarian resource responsible for securing, growing, processing, and distributing food to charitable organizations and persons in need. South Plains Food Bank, Inc. also strives to provide…

Food & Nutrition
12
Feed Your Neighbor Community Food Pantry Inc

To distribute emergency food assistance to individuals and families in the greenville area, and to cooperate with partnering agencies so that recipients have access to the greatest number of nutritional resources.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc; the most unlike its peers is Interfaith Help Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 57 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
21/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF GREENSBORO: $16,250 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREENSBOROTHE SALVATION ARMY: $12,650 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYAMERICAN RED CROSS: $7,500 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSAMERICAN RED CROSS OF WESTERN NC: $5,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS OF WESTERN NCPRISMA HEALTH CANCER INST: $4,000 · OtherPRISMA HEALTH CANCER INSTHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity: $2,500 · Other+30 more: $16,484 · Other+30 moreUnited Way of Central Florida Inc: $34,372 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Central Florida …NORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC: $20,000 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA BUS…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHESTERFIELD: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationROOM AT THE INN INC: $1,300 · Human ServicesSome Other Place: $500 · Human ServicesBROOKHAVEN OUTREACH MINISTRIES: $500 · Human ServicesNourish Up: $500 · Human ServicesSEAMARK RANCH INC: $500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $200 · Human ServicesChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc: $500 · Food & NutritionMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $500 · Food & NutritionInterfaith Help Services Inc: $500 · Food & NutritionFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA: $500 · Food & NutritionHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK: $500 · Food & NutritionTHE WELL OUTREACH INC: $500 · Food & NutritionARKANSAS FOODBANK: $500 · Food & NutritionHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Greenville Community Shelters: $500 · Housing & ShelterNO LONGER BOUND INC: $500 · HealthSHARE FOUNDATION: $250 · Health
Other$64,384Philanthropy$34,372Education$21,500Human Services$3,500Food & Nutrition$3,500Housing & Shelter$1,500Health$750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of Central Florida Inc: $34,372 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHESTERFIELD: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSome Other Place: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKHAVEN OUTREACH MINISTRIES: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUILFORD EDUCATION ALLIANCE: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARK PLACE OUTREACHINC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNourish Up: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNO LONGER BOUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTERFIELD FOOD BANK OUTREACH CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WELL OUTREACH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HANDS OF COLUMBUS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEAMARK RANCH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS FOODBANK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetForsyth Humane Society: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

The Blackbaud Giving …Enterprise Holdings F…The Bank of America C…Charities Aid Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…Duke Energy FoundationRaymond James Charita…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodMorgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC15.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Tencarva Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tencarva Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 57 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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