California · Nonprofit
Tias Arms
Tias Arms (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $234,741 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($78,157). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $243k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $235k
- Net assets
- $117k
What Tias Arms does
Mission
Provide shelter and care for children with HIV/AIDS in South Africa
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide shelter and care for children with HIV/AIDS in South Africa2025 was our most successful year of fundraising in Tias Arms history. Thanks to our donors, we were able to distribute approximately $170,000. In 2025, the hard-working board and dedicated volunteers organized two fundraising events: our annual tea party and our third jazz event. These ever-popular fundraising events ensured we could once again distribute funding to our seven sites in South Africa.Never-Never LandNever-Never Land Full-Service School has been a most beloved site supported by Tias Arms since its early days. The school is situated in an impoverished township near the town of Howick and provides not only tutorship, but also provides the only meal of the day for most of the children. The school also facilitates a HIV/AIDS outreach program which helps the children with HIV receive the requisite care and monitoring. The school's library, funded by Tias Arms, continues to grow from strength to strength. Never- Never Land school now has eight grades and Tias Arms continues to fund the teachers' salaries and the balanced, nutritious meals, grown in the school grounds, which the children enjoy every day.…
$174,293 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $174,293.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $53k to $117k (+121%).
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.
97% of Tias Arms’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $17k → $51k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 Tias Arms’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
Tias Arms leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 Tias Arms.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 58% · 2019 94% · 2020 61% · 2021 64% · 2022 52% · 2023 64% — 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
60% of Tias Arms'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 $93k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $141k 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
Tias Arms has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Tias Arms
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Tias Arms: 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 Tias Arms?
- Tias Arms (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $234,741 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($78,157). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Tias Arms have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $234,741 in grants to Tias Arms, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Tias Arms?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $78,157 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Tias Arms 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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