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Tsh Charitable Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$912k
Granted FY2026still arriving
32
Grants FY2026still arriving
3
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$986kArts & Culture$409kPhilanthropy$388kAnimals$378kHousing & Shelter$317kReligion$293kHuman Services$249kEnvironment$160kOther$0
02FY2026 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k6 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $460k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $167k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART$250,000
FOOTHILLS CONSERVENCY OF NC$66,750
NC SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AT MORGANTON FNDTN$50,000
EXODUS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC$50,000
THE SALVATION ARMY OF GREATER HICKORY$40,000
YMCA OF CATAWBA VALLEY$35,700
HUMANE SOCIETY OF CATAWBA COUNTY$28,863
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$27,500
SAFE HARBOR RESCUE MISSION INC$25,000
HART SQUARE FOUNDATION$25,000
HICKORY CHORAL SOCIETY$25,000
CATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER INC$25,000
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
OURIGHT YOUTH CATAWBA VALLEY$20,000
02The need
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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 (FY21–26, $232k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FEUSA: $2k → 14%FEUSA: $1k → 14%NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INC: $10k → 9%ASHURE MINISTRY INC: $10k → 12%FAMILY CARE CENTER: $50k → 12%YMCA OF CATAWBA VALLEY: $36k → 12%YMCA OF CATAWBA VALLEY: $25k → 12%YMCA OF CATAWBA VALLEY: $25k → 12%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $15k → 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%FAMILY CARE CENTER: $7k → 12%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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 37 repeat orgs$571k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2026, 15 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
22

Total granted

$3.7M
$341k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
0%

Still filing today

73%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • AS
    APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $601k · revenue +70%
  • HC
    Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity
    6× · 2021–2026 · $278k · revenue +20%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF CATAWBA COUNTY DBA THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF CATAWBA CO
    6× · 2021–2026 · $260k · 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%
  • FF
    Freedom Farm Ministries
    one grant, 2025 · $50k · revenue 0%
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
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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2
Foundation for the Carolinas

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

Philanthropy
3
United Way of Horry County Inc

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

Philanthropy
4
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
5
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
6
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."

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7
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
8
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
9
Carolina University

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

Education
10
Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation

We guide and encourage donors who are motivated toward kingdom-building generosity. our mission is carried out through four primary initiatives: providing donor-advised funds, inspiring and encouraging generosity within families along the…

Philanthropy
11
Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region

Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.

Human Services
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hickory Community Theatre Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 70 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
24/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $600,940 · OtherAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity: $277,500 · 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: $147,072 · OtherSAFE HARBOR RESCUE MISSION INCIndividual grant recipient: $90,000 · OtherFOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $160,000 · OtherFOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC+32 more: $744,696 · Other+32 moreHICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INC: $330,000 · Arts & CultureHICKORY MUSEUM OF …CATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER INC: $155,000 · Arts & CultureCATAWBA SCIENCE CE…WESTERN PIEDMONT SYMPHONY INC: $120,550 · Arts & CultureWESTERN PIEDMONT S…SALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureSALT BLOCK FOUNDAT…UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC: $37,000 · Arts & CultureHICKORY COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $31,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $15,000 · Arts & CultureDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $361,862 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVIS…HART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC: $92,000 · PhilanthropyHART SQUARE…MAUI UNITED WAY: $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCHRIST SCHOOL INC: $110,000 · EducationCHRIST SCH…UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $99,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…DEAF AND BLIND PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC: $77,250 · EducationDEAF AND B…LENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · EducationLENOIR-RHY…PATRICK BEAVER LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER INC: $48,000 · EducationPATRICK BE…CATAWBA COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $40,000 · EducationCATAWBA CO…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC: $85,700 · Human ServicesFAMILY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC: $73,500 · Human ServicesWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER: $60,000 · Human ServicesHANDS AND FEET PROJECT INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesNORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED: $10,000 · Human ServicesAshure Ministry Inc: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesHUMANE SOCIETY OF CATAWBA COUNTY DBA THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF CATAWBA CO: $259,859 · AnimalsMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $25,000 · AnimalsEXODUS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC: $117,000 · HealthCALDWELL HALFWAY HOUSE INC: $42,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthPREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC: $15,000 · Health+1 more: $2,500 · Health
Other$2,220,208Arts & Culture$748,550Philanthropy$479,862Education$434,250Human Services$292,200Animals$284,859Health$201,500

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 budgetAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $600,940 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $361,862 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INC: $330,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity: $277,500 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF CATAWBA COUNTY DBA THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF CATAWBA CO: $259,859 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetFOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $160,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER INC: $155,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetWESTERN PIEDMONT SYMPHONY INC: $120,550 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetEXODUS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC: $117,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetCHRIST SCHOOL INC: $110,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC: $92,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC: $85,700 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDEAF AND BLIND PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC: $77,250 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetFAMILY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC: $73,500 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetCatawba County Hispanic Ministry: $63,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetSALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetHICKORY SOUP KITCHEN INC: $60,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER: $60,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetLENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHANDS AND FEET PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCOUNCIL ON ADOLESCENTS OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetFreedom Farm Ministries: $50,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetPATRICK BEAVER LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER INC: $48,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetCALDWELL HALFWAY HOUSE INC: $42,000 over 2y, 6.5% 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 budgetCATAWBA VALLEY LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetHICKORY COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $31,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSABRE SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $25,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetJAMES C HARPER SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetPREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHICKORY BALLET AND PERFORMING ARTS: $14,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFEUSA INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $1,000 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 budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $500 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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
    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.
    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 70 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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