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CHIVE CHARITIES

CHIVE CHARITIES (Texas) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $638,294 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($162,808). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$2.0M
Funders on record
28
Grants received
$638k
Net assets
$279k
16/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Chive Charities does

Mission

Chive Charities is organized and operated exclusively to raise money and awareness for (I) sick and/or disabled individuals in need of financial assistance for medical treatment and/or quality of life enhancements, (ii) disabled veterans returning home from war in need of financial assistance for quality of life enhancements, and (iii) first responders.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Medical and disability assistance: Chive Charities successfully identified 35 deserving individuals as grant recipients for its medical and disability assistance program. This is by far and away the largest program that Chive Charities carries out. Recipients received various medical devices, car and home modifications, and physical and medical therapies and treatments.

    $924,878 spentof which $698,630 as grants
    62% of program spending
  2. Veteran assistance: with grants to 4 other 501(c)(3) organizations and 12 deserving individuals, Chive Charities gave support to veteran assistance initiatives in line with its program mission.

    $217,564 spentof which $123,540 as grants
    15% of program spending
  3. First responder assistance: with grants to 8 deserving individuals, Chive Charities gave support to first responders in line with its program mission.

    $343,557 spentof which $287,565 as grants
    23% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,485,999.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.1M) Expenses 100 ($2.4M) Net assets 100 ($127k)2018 Revenue 101 ($2.1M) Expenses 89 ($2.2M) Net assets 163 ($207k)2019 Revenue 99 ($2.1M) Expenses 87 ($2.1M) Net assets 163 ($207k)2020 Revenue 113 ($2.4M) Expenses 96 ($2.3M) Net assets 122 ($155k)2021 Revenue 125 ($2.7M) Expenses 110 ($2.7M) Net assets 111 ($141k)2022 Revenue 145 ($3.1M) Expenses 120 ($2.9M) Net assets 230 ($291k)2023 Revenue 117 ($2.5M) Expenses 103 ($2.5M) Net assets 208 ($264k)2024 Revenue 96 ($2.0M) Expenses 83 ($2.0M) Net assets 220 ($279k)
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Revenue (96)Expenses (83)Net assets (220)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $275k to $371k (+35%).

$238k
$259k
$246k
$200k
$275k
$371k
$316k
$320k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of CHIVE CHARITIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,052 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$306k
’17
−$35k
’18
−$14k
’19
$77k
’20
−$14k
’21
$150k
’22
−$27k
’23
$15k
’24
0.6
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Brian Mercedes

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed55888888
Joined·+0+3+0+0+0+1+0
No longer listed·0000010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $13k → $82k.

12 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CHIVE CHARITIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

CHIVE CHARITIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

86% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CHIVE CHARITIES.

26%
largest funder
48%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 80% · 2019 74% · 2020 22% · 2021 22% · 2022 23% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

22% of CHIVE CHARITIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

85% of CHIVE CHARITIES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $96k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 9 states.

IL
NY
MA
NJ
CA
AZ
NC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $543k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHIVE CHARITIES receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $638k to it.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like CHIVE CHARITIES

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 9%Fundraising 17%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 32 states

NH
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
HI
OK
MS
AL
GA
FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHIVE CHARITIES: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHIVE CHARITIES?
CHIVE CHARITIES (Texas) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $638,294 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($162,808). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHIVE CHARITIES have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $638,294 in grants to CHIVE CHARITIES, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHIVE CHARITIES?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $162,808 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHIVE CHARITIES find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 28 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing