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William Newkirk and Cheryl Tschanz Family Foundation at a glance

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William Newkirk and Cheryl Tschanz Family 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.

$160k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$321kHealth$145kHuman Services$121kInternational$114kPublic Safety & Disaster$62kEducation$54kEnvironment$50kArts & Culture$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOMERSET WOODS TRUSTEES$50,000
GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK$35,000
TABLE MINISTRIES INC$10,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC$10,000
TRINITY JUBILEE CENTER INC$10,000
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF STRAFFORD COUNTY$10,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$7,500
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$7,500
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY$5,000
ASHLAND UNIVERSITY$5,000
ASHLAND UNIVERSITY$5,000
UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%JUBILEE HOME: $5k → 11%TABLE MINISTRIES INC: $10k → 13%NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $15k → 7%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF STRAFFORD COUNTY: $15k → 9%JUBILEE HOME: $5k → 11%NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $5k → 7%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF STRAFFORD COUNTY: $10k → 9%JUBILEE HOME: $3k → 11%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF STRAFFORD COUNTY: $5k → 9%JUBILEE HOME: $3k → 11%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF STRAFFORD COUNTY: $5k → 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 14%JUBILEE HOME: $3k → 11%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ASHLAND OHIO: $5k → 11%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF STRAFFORD COUNTY: $5k → 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 14%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ASHLAND OHIO: $5k → 11%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF STRAFFORD COUNTY: $5k → 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $8k → 14%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ASHLAND OHIO: $3k → 11%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ASHLAND OHIO: $3k → 11%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

ME
NH
IL
NY
OH
PA
NJ
VA
MD
KS
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$886k · 25 repeat orgs$179k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
17

Total granted

$886k
$119k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+18%

Still filing today

100%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesFood & NutritionAnimalsEducationHealthOther
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

  • GS
    Good Shepherd Food Bank
    9× · 2017–2025 · $236k · revenue +83%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $145k · revenue +67%
  • UA
    UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +180%

Funded once

  • CF
    CELEBRATION FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $22k · revenue +16%
  • LF
    Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinasgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +64%
  • MS
    MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC - DOCTORS WITHOUT
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
2
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
3
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
4
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

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

Food & Nutrition
5
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
6
Rise Against Hunger Inc

Rise against hunger, inc. is an international hunger relief non-profit organization that is driven by a vision of a world without hunger and a mission to end hunger in our lifetime. rise against hunger distributes food and other…

International
7
Food Bank of Central New York

Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…

Food & Nutrition
8
Aid for Starving Children

Aid For Starving Children provides assistance around the world to children and their families by providing food, shelter, clean water, financial assistance, education, and emergency relief to victims of famine, natural disasters, and war.

International
9
Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc

The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.

Food & Nutrition
10
America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc

To advance change by feeding the hungry and educating and engaging the community in the fight to end hunger.

Food & Nutrition
11
Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc

Feeding Northeast Florida works to permanently end hunger in Northeast Florida by providing nutritious foods and other essential goods to people facing hunger, by addressing food insecurity, poverty and poor health through education and…

Food & Nutrition
12
Harvesters - the Community Food Network

Harvesters mobilizes the power of our community to create equitable access to nutritious food and address the root causes and impact of hunger.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc; the most unlike its peers is Book Love 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

45 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. 45 of the 46 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
33/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Good Shepherd Food Bank: $235,740 · Food & NutritionGood Shepherd Food BankTrinity Jubilee Center Inc: $25,000 · Food & NutritionTrinity Jubilee Center IncMEALS ON WHEELS CHICAGO: $10,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $10,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $10,000 · Food & NutritionPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $145,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTH…The Against Malaria Foundation: $5,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF STRAFFORD COUNTY: $45,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTIO…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $27,500 · Human ServicesAmerican Nation…New Hampshire Catholic Charities: $20,000 · Human ServicesNew Hampshire C…JUBILEE HOME: $19,000 · Human ServicesJUBILEE HOMEYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ASHLAND OHIO INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHR…Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas: $10,000 · Human ServicesLutheran Family…TABLE MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTABLE MINISTRIE…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $32,700 · InternationalWORLD CENTRA…International Rescue Committee INC: $20,000 · InternationalInternationa…United States Association for UNHCR: $16,050 · InternationalUnited State…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $15,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SAN…Zoe Empowers: $10,000 · InternationalZoe EmpowersISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $10,000 · InternationalISLAMIC RELI…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $10,000 · InternationalUNITED STATE…+1 more: $3,000 · InternationalUNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureBOOK LOVE FOUNDATION: $21,000 · Arts & CultureSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $45,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK O…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC - DOCTORS WITHOUT: $10,000 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $28,500 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL AD…ASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · OtherASHLAND UNIVERSITYTHE CAT HOUSE FELINE SANCTUARY INC: $17,500 · OtherTHE CAT HOUSE FELINE SANCT…CELEBRATION FOUNDATION INC: $21,700 · OtherCELEBRATION FOUNDATION INCHOPE PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A COMMUNITY HOPE CENTER INC: $20,000 · OtherHOPE PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $20,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENT…UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC: $10,000 · OtherGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $15,200 · OtherGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION…+11 more: $41,347 · Other+11 moreSOMERSET WOODS TRUSTEES: $50,000 · Environment
Food & Nutrition$290,740Health$150,000Human Services$147,500International$116,750Arts & Culture$66,000Other$254,247Environment$50,000

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 budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $235,740 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $145,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF STRAFFORD COUNTY: $45,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $32,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $28,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity Jubilee Center Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCELEBRATION FOUNDATION INC: $21,700 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetBOOK LOVE FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A COMMUNITY HOPE CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUBILEE HOME: $19,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CAT HOUSE FELINE SANCTUARY INC: $17,500 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $16,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ASHLAND OHIO INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $15,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS CHICAGO: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLutheran Family Services in the Carolinas: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZoe Empowers: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTABLE MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSomerset Humane Society: $6,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFREE THE GIRLS: $5,307 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDemocracy North Carolina: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEDUCATION EQUALS HOPE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $2,640 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND: $900 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.

Duke Energy FoundationBangor Savings Bank F…Triangle Community Fo…Maine Community Found…The Ayco Charitable F…Foundation for the Ca…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Texas Instruments Fou…Renaissance Charitabl…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for Good
Duke Energy FoundationNC16.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good

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 William Newkirk and Cheryl Tschanz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William Newkirk and Cheryl Tschanz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • United Arts of Central Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
11report 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
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.
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Find your warmest path to William Newkirk and Cheryl Tschanz Family 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 46 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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