California · Nonprofit
TEND
TEND (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,418 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($170,618). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $204k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $192k
- Net assets
- $74k
What Tend does
Mission
Counseling, education consulting, executive coaching
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Counseling/spritual direction: the form of counseling Tend provides is the ancient practice of spiritual direction. Spiritual direction is the art of intentionally journeying with another individual (directee) in a spirit- led, free flowing way that fosters trust, safety, vulnerability and honesty with god and self so that the directee can become aware of the movements and promptings of god in their life, more fully embrace the love and grace god has for them and in turn manifest that love to others.
$51,054 spent$23,331 earned by the program33% of program spendingEducation consulting: Tend provides executive coaching to businesses, churches, colleges, non-profit organizations, schools and universities. The services we offer include curriculum development and refinement, learning culture and environments, pedagogy, and program evaluation using qualitative research methodologies.
$51,054 spent$32,731 earned by the program33% of program spendingExecutive coaching: Tend provides executive coaching to leaders serving in the context of businesses, churches, colleges, government, non-profit organizations, schools and universities. Our focus is on personal and leadership development, helping individuals gain clarity on their strenghts, weaknesses, gaps, values, and growth edges with the goal of engaging in learning strategies that lead to holistic integration.
$51,055 spent$27,480 earned by the program33% of program spendingPublication cultivare: Tend publishes a free online magazine monthly entitled cultivare. Each month the magazine explores a specific topic through which readers are provided resources to cultivate contemplation, engagement, and deeper understanding. The magazine's guiding questions are: what are you cultivating in your life? What fruit do you want your life to bear?
$3,500 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $156,663.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $124k to $73k (−41%).
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.
59% of TEND’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $25k → $45k.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 TEND’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
TEND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% 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
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 TEND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 80% · 2021 100% · 2022 89% · 2023 89% — 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
100% of TEND'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $192k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
TEND receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $192k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TEND
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TEND: 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 TEND?
- TEND (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,418 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($170,618). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TEND have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $192,418 in grants to TEND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEND?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $170,618 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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