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TCN Inc DBA The Charlotte News

TCN Inc DBA The Charlotte News (Vermont) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,110 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($51,110). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$177k
Revenue FY2025
4
Funders on record
$97k
Grants received
$109k
Net assets
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%

Against its field

TCN Inc DBA The Charlotte News receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $97k to it.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($175k) Expenses 100 ($90k) Net assets 100 ($118k)2022 Revenue 76 ($133k) Expenses 173 ($156k) Net assets 83 ($98k)2023 Revenue 91 ($160k) Expenses 180 ($161k) Net assets 82 ($97k)2024 Revenue 118 ($207k) Expenses 212 ($190k) Net assets 96 ($113k)2025 Revenue 101 ($177k) Expenses 202 ($181k) Net assets 93 ($109k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (101)Expenses (202)Net assets (93)Peer revenue range

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

62% of TCN Inc DBA The Charlotte News’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$86k
21
$23k
22
$1k
23
$17k
24
$4k
25
4.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $16k → $17k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)59% 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 TCN Inc DBA The Charlotte News’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

TCN Inc DBA The Charlotte News leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 TCN Inc DBA The Charlotte News.

53%
largest funder
94%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100%broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

59% of TCN Inc DBA The Charlotte News'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 $40k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Vermont, across 2 states.

PA
CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like TCN Inc DBA The Charlotte News

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

In Vermont

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Public support

46%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TCN Inc DBA The Charlotte News: 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 TCN Inc DBA The Charlotte News?
TCN Inc DBA The Charlotte News (Vermont) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,110 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($51,110). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TCN Inc DBA The Charlotte News have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $97,110 in grants to TCN Inc DBA The Charlotte News, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TCN Inc DBA The Charlotte News?
THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $51,110 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TCN Inc DBA The Charlotte News find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing