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Thiebaut Method

Thiebaut Method (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,769,973 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,504,033). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2022
$391k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$1.8M
Net assets
$87k
8/16 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Thiebaut Method does

Mission

Thiebaut (tebow) Method (TM) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that catalyzes human intrinsic motivation into real world goals and actions intended to add value to the lives of other people. By empowering underserved youth to use their intrinsic motivations to help others, TM exposes youth to people, ideas, skills, talents, and knowledge that enlarge their understanding of the world, reveal purpose-driven college and career aspirations, and put them on a trajectory to break the cycle of poverty.

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Social Good Project (SGP) program empowers underserved youth in grades 4-8 to become community service leaders by designing and leading projects that benefit others in their community. Youth research the issue they address, design promotional materials, recruit donors, volunteers and beneficiaries, collaborate with professional mentors, and organize and host events. SGPs teach underserved youth how to become community service leaders by being the designers and providers of social services.

    $299,785 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $299,785.

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 ($444k) Expenses 100 ($641k) Net assets 100 ($294k)2018 Revenue 105 ($467k) Expenses 82 ($527k) Net assets 80 ($234k)2019 Revenue 79 ($353k) Expenses 61 ($390k) Net assets 67 ($197k)2020 Revenue 66 ($292k) Expenses 49 ($315k) Net assets 59 ($174k)2021 Revenue 73 ($323k) Expenses 71 ($457k) Net assets 14 ($41k)2022 Revenue 88 ($391k) Expenses 54 ($345k) Net assets 30 ($87k)
201720182019202020212022
Revenue (88)Expenses (54)Net assets (30)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 2020 to 2021, from $174k to $41k (−77%).

$294k
$234k
$197k
$174k
$41k
$87k
201720182019202020212022
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Thiebaut Method’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$196k
’17
−$60k
’18
−$37k
’19
−$23k
’20
−$133k
’21
$47k
’22
2.4
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.

Board chair

Paul Thiebaut III

Chairman

As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.

201720182019202020212022
Listed798877
Joined·+2+3+1+0+0
No longer listed·04110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $263k → $71k.

5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 Thiebaut Method’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

Thiebaut Method leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

92% 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 Thiebaut Method.

85%
largest funder
91%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 58% · 2019 87% · 2020 84% · 2021 97% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — 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.

How long its funders stay

13% of Thiebaut Method's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

89% of Thiebaut Method'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 $195k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from California funders.

NY
CA
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

Thiebaut Method runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 19,715 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve2.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 19,715 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022

Organizations like Thiebaut Method

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 7%Fundraising 6%

Governance

7
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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 Thiebaut Method: 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 Thiebaut Method?
Thiebaut Method (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,769,973 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,504,033). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Thiebaut Method have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,769,973 in grants to Thiebaut Method, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Thiebaut Method?
Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,504,033 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Thiebaut Method 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 16 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