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Tlc Foundation From the Heart at a glance

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Tlc Foundation From the Heart

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.

$4.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$14MHuman Services$6.5MReligion$2.5MYouth Development$592kEducation$591kHousing & Shelter$405kRecreation & Sports$308kAnimals$286kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $191k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $538k
  • $250k+4 grants · $4.2M
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UMC FOUNDATION UMC HEALTH SYSTEMS$1,600,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$1,300,000
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$1,000,000
ARTESIA RECREATION CENTER$300,000
ARTESIA GENERAL HOSPITAL$137,500
SOUTHEAST NM VETERAN'S TRANSPORTATION NETWORK$100,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CARLSBAD$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH$50,000
ROSWELL INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT - GODDARD HIGH SCHOOL$50,000
HAVEN OF HOPE$40,000
Individual grant recipient$35,000
CARLSBAD LIFEHOUSE INC$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $427k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%BRITANNY'S HOPE: $25k → 9%SOUTHEAST NM VETERAN'S TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $100k → 20%BRITANNY'S HOPE: $15k → 9%SOUTHEAST NM VETERAN'S TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $50k → 20%CARC INC: $100k → 13%CARC INC: $100k → 13%WRITTEN IN RED: $17k → 13%WRITTEN IN RED: $10k → 13%WRITTEN IN RED: $10k → 13%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

IL
NV
IN
PA
CA
AZ
NM
NC
AL
TX
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$23M · 43 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against -24% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
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Total granted

$23M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
-24%

Still filing today

35%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $456k 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
HealthHuman ServicesReligionPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicine
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +47%
  • GL
    GOD'S LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +963%
  • SC
    SACRAMENTO CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • UF
    UMC FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +30%
  • LN
    LANDSUN NURSING HOME
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M
  • MA
    MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $69k
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
U-Turn for Christ New Mexico

Provide drug and alcohol rehabilitation for men and women to break the addiction

Health
2
Christian Home of Pecos

Christain Home

Crime & Legal
3
New Mexico Association for Home and

The organization serves its membership through advocacy, networking, education, and communication by promoting success and best practices for home care, hospice, and related home health support services.

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4
Argos a Shelter Dog Rescue

The purpose of argos, a shelter dog rescue is: to rescue animals from situations that are abusive, endangering, or neglectful. to rescue animals in danger of being euthanized in new mexico shelters/pounds. to provide necessary veterinary…

Animals
5
Conviction for Christ Ministries

The organization works to Minister to inmates and others in need through the sharing of God's word and inpsirational gospel music.

Religion
6
Sierra Health Care Inc

To deliver the highest quality care to sustain the health and well-being of every patient through the variety of healthcare services we provide.

Health
7
Albuquerque Christian Children's Home Inc

The home provides care for children and wards of the court placed for foster home purposes.

Human Services
8
Novelty Behavioral Health

Our mission is to provide Accessible and Affordable Holistic-Based mental-health care to the communities we serve without without regard to their background or insurance status in a caring environment.

Health
9
Four Corners Mission
Unclassified
10
San Juan Regional Medical Center

Better is our mission, improving lives through personalized health and care

Health
11
Desert View

Desert views mission is to support an individuals healing practice of christian science by providing christian science nursing whenever there is a need.

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12
The W B Carrell Memorial Clinic Shoulder and Elbow Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Artesia General Hospital; the most unlike its peers is God's Light in the Darkness Foundation. 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

19 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. 19 of the 69 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UMC FOUNDATION UMC HEALTH SYSTEMS: $4,815,000 · OtherUMC FOUNDATION UMC HEALTH SYSTEMSUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $4,600,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERLAKEVIEW CHRISTIAN HOME: $2,000,000 · OtherLAKEVIEW CHRISTIAN HOMELANDSUN NURSING HOMES: $2,000,000 · OtherLANDSUN NURSING HOMESMD ANDERSON: $1,225,000 · OtherMD ANDERSONLANDSUN NURSING HOME: $1,000,000 · Other+50 more: $3,955,264 · Other+50 moreBaylor College of Medicine: $1,450,000 · EducationUMC FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · HealthARTESIA GENERAL HOSPITAL: $275,255 · HealthCARLSBAD LIFEHOUSE INC: $50,000 · Health+1 more: $2,000 · HealthSACRAMENTO CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER INC: $1,000,000 · Religion+1 more: $10,000 · ReligionGOD'S LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CARLSBADINC: $577,000 · Youth DevelopmentCARC INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesSENM VETERANS TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesBRITTANY'S HOPE: $40,000 · Human ServicesWRITTEN IN RED INC: $37,000 · Human Services
Other$19,595,264Education$1,450,000Health$1,327,255Religion$1,010,000Philanthropy$1,000,000Youth Development$577,000Human Services$427,000

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 budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $1,450,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetUMC FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSACRAMENTO CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER INC: $1,000,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CARLSBADINC: $577,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetASSURANCE HOME INC: $375,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetHAVEN OF HOPE INC: $345,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetARTESIA GENERAL HOSPITAL: $275,255 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCARC INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSENM VETERANS TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC: $150,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetEDDY COUNTY CASA AUXILIARY: $67,518 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetCARLSBAD LIFEHOUSE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBRITTANY'S HOPE: $40,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWRITTEN IN RED INC: $37,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetARTESIA MAINSTREET INC: $32,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetROSWELL HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $11,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetGod Speed Ministry Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetNew Mexico Autism Society: $2,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetArtesia Arts Council Inc: $475 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds GOD'S LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UMC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SACRAMENTO CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CARLSBADINC ↗
  • Who funds ASSURANCE HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds HAVEN OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTESIA GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds CARC INC ↗
  • Who funds SENM VETERANS TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds EDDY COUNTY CASA AUXILIARY ↗
  • Who funds CARLSBAD LIFEHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds BRITTANY'S HOPE ↗

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.

Written in Red IncPY FoundationThe Estelle H Yates F…John a and Charlotte …United Way of Eddy Co…SP & Estelle Yates Fa…Frank W Yates Jr Fami…God's Light in the Da…Chase Foundation Mack…Amazonsmile FoundationFidelity Investments …
Written in Red IncNM26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Written in Red Inc · PY Foundation · The Estelle H Yates Foundation · John a and Charlotte G Yates Legacy Foundation · United Way of Eddy County · SP & Estelle Yates Family Foundation · Frank W Yates Jr Family Foundation · God's Light in the Darkness Foundation · Chase Foundation Mack C Chase Trustee · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Tlc Foundation From the Heart funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tlc Foundation From the Heart. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 69 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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