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TYING VINES INC

TYING VINES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $971,772 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($218,250). 11 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 FY2024
$1.9M
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$972k
Net assets
$982k
11/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Tying Vines Inc does

Mission

Tying vines is committed to empowering chrisitan ministries, delivering humanitarian aid, and fighting poverty and human trafficking through sustainable economic development by providing a platform to support new growth, build strategic partnerships and serving the church.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Train christian ministry leaders and equip churches for more effective ministry and impact and provide vocational training and small business development to impoverished communities

    $726,156 spent
    49% of program spending
  2. Provide food, clothing, healthcare, and education to refugees, trauma counseling and support to victims of crisis and injustice, and provide vocational training and small business development to impoverished communities

    $520,574 spent
    35% of program spending
  3. Bring hope, encouragement and needed resources to street children, orphans, migrant laborer, provide wheel chairs and rescue victims of human trafficking

    $240,519 spent
    16% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,487,249.

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 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($835k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 177 ($1.5M) Net assets 76 ($922k)2019 Revenue 111 ($1.3M) Expenses 98 ($817k) Net assets 117 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 118 ($1.4M) Expenses 96 ($805k) Net assets 166 ($2.0M)2021 Revenue 133 ($1.6M) Expenses 126 ($1.0M) Net assets 210 ($2.5M)2022 Revenue 160 ($1.9M) Expenses 228 ($1.9M) Net assets 210 ($2.6M)2023 Revenue 116 ($1.4M) Expenses 379 ($3.2M) Net assets 61 ($746k)2024 Revenue 159 ($1.9M) Expenses 196 ($1.6M) Net assets 81 ($982k)
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Revenue (159)Expenses (196)Net assets (81)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 2022 to 2023, from $2.6M to $767k (−70%).

$1.2M
$922k
$1.4M
$2.0M
$2.6M
$2.6M
$767k
$1.0M
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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
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of TYING VINES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,735 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$350k
’17
−$292k
’18
$503k
’19
$594k
’20
$528k
’21
−$12k
’22
−$1.8M
’23
$253k
’24
5.5
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.

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Listed911997876
Joined·+2+0+0+0+2+0+0
No longer listed·0202111
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $72k → $67k.

11 of 21 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 TYING VINES INC’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

TYING VINES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

90% 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 TYING VINES INC.

22%
largest funder
60%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 58% · 2019 60% · 2020 41% · 2021 64% · 2022 35% · 2023 24% — diversifying over time.

“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

50% of TYING VINES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

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

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 TYING VINES 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 $104k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 6 states.

ND
IL
MA
OH
AR
TX

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

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’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $867k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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

TYING VINES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,394 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve5.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,394 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like TYING VINES INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds TYING VINES INC?
TYING VINES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $971,772 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($218,250). 11 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 TYING VINES INC have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $971,772 in grants to TYING VINES INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TYING VINES INC?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $218,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TYING VINES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 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