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TEKOA INC

TEKOA INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,890 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($44,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2023
$2.3M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$47k
Net assets
$3.6M
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Tekoa Inc does

Mission

Touching hearts, changing lives, sharing the light of christ

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Camp tekoa is a multi-state ministry of the united methodist church. Camp tekoa is location in hendersonville, nc. Tekoa foothills is located in casar, nc. Tekoas mission is touching hearts, changing lives, sharing the light of christ. Tekoa has several ministries including summer camp, tekoa missions, tekoa after school, and retreats. Tekoas summer camps offer a variey of onsite programming and offsite adventure camps exploring gods creation. We offer day camps, elementary camps, middle school camps, and high school camps. Camp tekoa also offers special needs programming in the summer and throughout the year.

    $1,969,869 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Tekoa foothills is a site that is growing and serving the needs of cleveland county, nc. Tekoa missions is a program on the site that helps with home repair and local community support. Hundreds of quests have experienced radical hospitality and love of god in this place. Spiritual retreats happen throughout the year.

  3. During our retreat season, we welcome many groups to meet together, fellowship and experience spritual renewal. Group housing offerings include our cabins, lodges, and campsites. Tekoa develops uniquely crafted spiritual retreats for groups. In the retreat season, tekoa afterschool supports seven area schools. Tekoa hosts outdoor education experiences and large community events including a large halloween event.

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,969,869.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($3.1M)2018 Revenue 112 ($1.9M) Expenses 106 ($1.7M) Net assets 107 ($3.4M)2019 Revenue 108 ($1.8M) Expenses 116 ($1.8M) Net assets 107 ($3.4M)2020 Revenue 33 ($566k) Expenses 77 ($1.2M) Net assets 87 ($2.7M)2021 Revenue 137 ($2.3M) Expenses 109 ($1.7M) Net assets 107 ($3.4M)2022 Revenue 129 ($2.2M) Expenses 129 ($2.0M) Net assets 112 ($3.5M)2023 Revenue 134 ($2.3M) Expenses 141 ($2.2M) Net assets 113 ($3.6M)
2017201820192020202120222023
Revenue (134)Expenses (141)Net assets (113)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $3.2M to $3.8M (+19%).

$3.4M
$3.6M
$3.6M
$3.2M
$3.8M
$4.2M
$4.0M
2017201820192020202120222023
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 27% · 2023 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$117k
’17
$233k
’18
$12k
’19
−$656k
’20
$607k
’21
$156k
’22
$42k
’23
2.8
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

Rev John Isley

Executive director

Board chair

Michael D Mitchell

Chair

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

2017201820192020202120222023
Listed1171314131313
Joined·+1+9+4+4+3+1
No longer listed·533531
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $9k.

Funder
'18
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
2
2
2
2
1
1

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 TEKOA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 funders by total. 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

TEKOA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

99% 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 TEKOA INC.

95%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 64% · 2021 70% · 2022 91% · 2023 95% — growing more concentrated.

“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

99% of TEKOA INC'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 $403 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from North Carolina funders.

NC

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

’20
’21
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

Organizations like TEKOA INC

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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 10%Fundraising 1%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Wnc Confer of Unit Method Chrch · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds TEKOA INC?
TEKOA INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,890 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($44,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TEKOA INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $46,890 in grants to TEKOA INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TEKOA INC?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $44,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TEKOA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 4 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