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Tsh Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$790k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$250k
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 FY2021–2025.

Education$986kArts & Culture$409kPhilanthropy$388kAnimals$378kHousing & Shelter$317kReligion$293kHuman Services$249kEnvironment$160kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $355k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $176k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$250,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF CATAWBA COUNTY$71,137
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$55,000
FREEDOM FARM MINISTRIES$50,000
SALVATION ARMY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$40,000
NC SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AT MORGANTON FNDTN$27,250
Individual grant recipient$25,000
CATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER INC$25,000
HART SQUARE FOUNDATION$25,000
CENTRO LATINO$25,000
SABRE SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA$25,000
HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART$25,000
WESTERN PIEDMONT SYMPHONY$20,000
UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY$15,000
WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER$15,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FEUSA: $2k → 14%FEUSA: $1k → 14%NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INC: $10k → 9%FAMILY CARE CENTER: $50k → 12%YMCA OF CATAWBA VALLEY: $25k → 12%YMCA OF CATAWBA VALLEY: $25k → 12%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $15k → 12%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 12%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 12%FAMILY CARE CENTER: $9k → 12%FAMILY CARE CENTER: $8k → 12%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.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 33 repeat orgs$406k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
21

Total granted

$3.0M
$288k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
0%

Still filing today

73%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyAnimalsOther

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

  • AS
    APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $601k · revenue +70%
  • HC
    Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity
    5× · 2021–2025 · $250k · revenue +20%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF CATAWBA COUNTY DBA THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF CATAWBA CO
    5× · 2021–2025 · $231k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • LU
    LENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $60k · revenue -3%
  • HA
    HANDS AND FEET PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +9%
  • CC
    CATAWBA COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue 0%

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
Foundation for the Carolinas

Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.

Philanthropy
2
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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3
United Way of Horry County Inc

To unite people, ideas, and resources to advance the common good in horry county

Philanthropy
4
Catawba College

Catawba college is committed to providing students an education rich in personal attention that blends the knowledge and competencies of liberal studies with career preparation. catawba college draws strength from judeo-christian values,…

Education
5
Habitat for Humanity Cabarrus County

Guided by God, Habitat Cabarrus transforms lives and our community by uniting all of Cabarrus County around the cause of decent, affordable housing for everyone.

Housing & Shelter
6
Conway Hospital Community Services

Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.

Health
7
Carolina University

A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.

Education
8
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc

To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.

Arts & Culture
9
Houston Christian University

The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."

—
10
Harrells Christian Academy

The mission of harrells christian academy is to prepare each student for higher education within an environment that instills judeo-christian values, fosters self-discipline, enhances creativity, and promises a love and respect for…

Education
11
Carolina College of Biblical Studies

Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.

Education
12
Caswell County Partnership for Children Inc

The caswell county partnership for children unites the community to provide families with resources and services to enable all children to reach their fullest potential.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Catawba County Dba the Humane Society of Catawba Co and the most unlike its peers is University Christian High School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr14%9%5–10yr17%9%10–20yr13%21%20–35yr12%27%35–55yr22%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%6%<5yr14%2%5–10yr17%3%10–20yr13%33%20–35yr12%38%35–55yr22%19%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/47
the rest of the field
10%
293/2,928

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

42 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. 42 of the 60 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
22/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $600,940 · OtherAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity — $250,000 · OtherHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for HumanityST LUKE'S (HICKORY) UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $200,000 · OtherST LUKE'S (HICKORY) UNITED METHODIST CHURCHSAFE HARBOR RESCUE MISSION INC — $122,072 · OtherSAFE HARBOR RESCUE MISSION INCSALVATION ARMY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — $70,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $65,000 · OtherEXODUS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC — $67,000 · OtherCatawba County Hispanic Ministry — $63,000 · Other+25 more — $400,946 · Other+25 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $361,862 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED…HART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC — $67,000 · PhilanthropyHART SQUARE F…MAUI UNITED WAY — $25,000 · PhilanthropyMAUI UNITED W…+1 more — $1,000 · PhilanthropyCATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER INC — $130,000 · Arts & CultureCATAWBA SCIEN…WESTERN PIEDMONT SYMPHONY INC — $100,550 · Arts & CultureWESTERN PIEDM…HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INC — $80,000 · Arts & CultureHICKORY MUSEU…SALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · Arts & CultureSALT BLOCK FO…UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC — $37,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED ARTS C…HICKORY COMMUNITY THEATRE INC — $15,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $7,500 · Arts & CultureCHRIST SCHOOL INC — $110,000 · EducationCHRIST SCHO…UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL — $99,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …LENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY — $60,000 · EducationLENOIR-RHYN…PATRICK BEAVER LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER INC — $48,000 · EducationPATRICK BEA…CATAWBA COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN — $40,000 · EducationCATAWBA COU…DEAF AND BLIND PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC — $27,250 · EducationDEAF AND BL…HUMANE SOCIETY OF CATAWBA COUNTY DBA THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF CATAWBA CO — $230,996 · AnimalsMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY — $25,000 · AnimalsFAMILY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC — $67,000 · Human ServicesHANDS AND FEET PROJECT INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER — $45,000 · Human ServicesNORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED — $10,000 · Human Services+1 more — $3,000 · Human ServicesFOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC — $160,000 · Environment
Other$1,838,958Philanthropy$454,862Arts & Culture$430,550Education$384,250Animals$255,996Human Services$225,000Environment$160,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $600,940 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $361,862 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity — $250,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF CATAWBA COUNTY DBA THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF CATAWBA CO — $230,996 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetFOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC — $160,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER INC — $130,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCHRIST SCHOOL INC — $110,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWESTERN PIEDMONT SYMPHONY INC — $100,550 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetHICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INC — $80,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetEXODUS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC — $67,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetHART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC — $67,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetFAMILY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC — $67,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetCatawba County Hispanic Ministry — $63,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetLENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetHANDS AND FEET PROJECT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHICKORY SOUP KITCHEN INC — $50,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetFreedom Farm Ministries — $50,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetPATRICK BEAVER LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER INC — $48,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER — $45,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetCATAWBA COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN — $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC — $37,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetCOUNCIL ON ADOLESCENTS OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC — $35,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetCALDWELL HALFWAY HOUSE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetDEAF AND BLIND PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC — $27,250 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSABRE SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA — $25,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATAWBA VALLEY LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetHICKORY COMMUNITY THEATRE INC — $15,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetPREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetJAMES C HARPER SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS INC — $12,500 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHICKORY BALLET AND PERFORMING ARTS — $7,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFEUSA INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 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.

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.

Beaver Family Foundat…George Foundation IncNorth Carolina Commun…The Bolick FoundationE Rhodes and Leona B …Underdown Family Foun…Foundation for the Ca…Broyhill Family Found…Corning Incorporated …Duke Energy FoundationHambrick Family Found…The Lb Lane Family Fo…
Beaver Family Foundation IncNC70.7× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Beaver Family Foundation Inc · George Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Bolick Foundation · E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · Underdown Family Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Broyhill Family Foundation Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Hambrick Family Foundation Inc · The Lb Lane Family Foundation Inc

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 Tsh Charitable 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 · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 Tsh Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Tsh Charitable 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 60 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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