Tabitha Foundation

Tabitha Foundation (EIN 20-2501873, Keller, TX) is not a grantmaking institution in any conventional sense — it is a small, closely-held family giving vehicle. All three officers of record (Benjamin W Ng, President and Director; Wilson Ng, Director; Yi H Hsu, Secretary and Director) draw zero compensation, there is no program staff, and the foundation's own IRS filings list its sole program as 'Nagaland Missionaries' at roughly $15,000 in annual program expense. The two named grant recipients captured in available data — Moasenla Lemdor ($58,000 across four grants) and Richard Gom ($6,000) — are individual missionaries, not organizations that competed for funding through a written process. This tells prospective applicants almost everything they need to know: giving here flows through personal relationships the Ng family already has with specific missionaries or ministries connected to Nagaland, in northeastern India, most plausibly through Baptist mission networks active in that region. The foundation's 990 nominally checks 'accepting applications' and carries boilerplate application language (name, contact information, program description, cost-benefit), but there is no published deadline, no typical grant size, no online portal, no LOI-to-full-proposal pipeline, and no site-visit history — the standard signals of an institution actually reviewing unsolicited submissions. A cold LOI mailed to the registered address is unlikely to receive a response; realistically, the only path in is a warm introduction through Nagaland-focused Christian mission circles the officers already trust. First-time applicants should not budget meaningful time pursuing this foundation through conventional grant-seeking channels — if there is no existing relationship or missionary affiliation with Nagaland, this is not a productive target. Organizations working in international missions, church planting, or humanitarian support specifically in Nagaland or adjacent Northeast Indian states are the only plausible fit, and even then, expect a personal ask-and-answer relationship rather than a competitive grant cycle. The foundation is worth monitoring only if its asset base (now $3.36M after two large contribution years) begins translating into a broader program — nothing in the current record suggests that shift is underway.

Total giving has fallen sharply over the long term and sits far below what the asset base would suggest. FY2025 charitable disbursements were $15,045; FY2023 total giving was $17,347 (grants paid $15,090); FY2022 was $17,176 (grants paid $15,090); FY2021 was $16,017. Compare that to FY2012, when total giving peaked at $90,388, and FY2011 ($50,297) and FY2013 ($49,969) — giving has dropped roughly 70-80% from its highest recorded level to today's run rate. Meanwhile assets have grown: total assets were $338,850 in FY2020 and $1.86M-$1.87M in FY2021-FY2022, then jumped to roughly $3.35M-$3.36M in FY2023-FY2025 on the back of two large contribution years ($1.55M received in FY2021, $1.503M in FY2023) — almost certainly capital gifts from the Ng family rather than fundraised revenue, since net investment income in most years is a few thousand dollars or less. On a $3.36M asset base, the IRS 5% minimum-distribution guideline would suggest roughly $150,000-$168,000 in annual qualifying distributions; actual disbursements of $15,000-$17,000 are far below that benchmark, though the calculation is based on average assets over the prior year and the foundation's payout may adjust with a lag. At the grantee level, the only recipients captured in available data are two individual missionaries: Moasenla Lemdor, who received $58,000 across four grants (averaging roughly $14,500 per grant), and Richard Gom, who received a single $6,000 grant — for a combined $64,000 across five recorded grants, averaging $12,800 each. The foundation's own stated program, 'Nagaland Missionaries,' carried a $15,000 expense line, consistent with one to two missionary-support grants per year. There is no evidence of geographic diversification, multi-year pledges to organizations, or any program area outside missionary support in Nagaland, India.

Tabitha Foundation sits in a cluster of similarly small, asset-matched foundations classified under the same 'International' NTEE category. None of these peers have annual-giving figures available in this dataset, and several are themselves highly specialized single-relationship vehicles rather than open grantmakers — worth keeping in mind when sizing up the competitive landscape.

All six entries cluster tightly within a $200,000 asset band ($3.16M-$3.36M), suggesting they were matched on size rather than programmatic overlap — a Holocaust study center, a French-American benevolent society, and a charitable remainder trust have little functional similarity to a missionary-support vehicle. None publish grant-size or application data, reinforcing that this entire peer set is composed of small, closely-held foundations rather than institutions built for public grant-seeking outreach.

No news coverage, press mentions, or social-media activity specific to this Tabitha Foundation (EIN 20-2501873, Keller, TX) turned up in web research — consistent with a three-person family foundation that has no communications function. The most recent verified financial detail comes directly from the foundation's own IRS filing for FY2025: revenue of $14,030 (almost entirely $1,030 in dividend income plus contributions), expenses of $18,050, charitable disbursements of $15,045 (83.4% of expenses), and net assets of $3,363,244. The last named leadership is unchanged: Benjamin W Ng (President and Director), Yi H Hsu (Secretary and Director), and Wilson Ng (Director), all uncompensated. The one notable financial event in the recent record is not a program announcement but a balance-sheet shift — a roughly $1.5 million contribution landed in FY2023 (following a similar $1.55M contribution in FY2021), pushing total assets from under $2M to over $3.3M without any corresponding increase in grantmaking. Separately, web research surfaced an important caution for anyone researching this foundation: its listed website, tabitha.org, now 301-redirects to eventide.org/tabitha/, the page for Eventide Senior Living & Care (North Dakota, Minnesota, and Nebraska), which merged with the unrelated Tabitha Nebraska senior-care system in October 2024. That merger and redirect have nothing to do with this Keller, TX foundation, but the shared name and dead URL mean this foundation currently has zero functioning public web presence to monitor for updates.

Treat this foundation as effectively closed to unsolicited applications rather than as a standard prospect. The realistic odds of a cold submission succeeding are very low: there are no program staff, no published deadline, no typical grant-size range, and — critically — no working website (tabitha.org now redirects to an unrelated senior-living system's page, so do not send anything there or assume that site reflects this foundation's priorities). The foundation's own 990 filing lists generic application language (applicant name, contact information, description of program, cost-benefit), which is IRS Part XV-A boilerplate rather than evidence of an active review process — every private foundation must disclose some application language even when it does not solicit proposals in practice. The single strongest signal in the data is programmatic: 100% of documented giving supports named missionaries working in or connected to Nagaland, in northeastern India, most likely through Baptist mission networks. If your organization has no existing tie to Nagaland missions, this is not a productive target regardless of how compelling your proposal is elsewhere. If you do have a genuine connection — a shared missionary, a Nagaland Baptist association relationship, or a mutual contact who knows Benjamin W Ng, Wilson Ng, or Yi H Hsu — the right approach is a personal introduction and a direct, individual-level ask (the foundation's grant history is to people, not organizations), not a formal grant application packet. Common mistakes to avoid: don't submit a generic international-development LOI expecting a program officer to review it (there isn't one); don't reference the tabitha.org website in correspondence, since it no longer belongs to this entity; and don't expect a grant size beyond roughly $6,000-$15,000 per commitment based on the only two recipients on record. Given the $1.5M-plus contributions the foundation received in 2021 and 2023, it is worth a light-touch, relationship-first inquiry sent to the registered Keller, TX address if you have a legitimate Nagaland-missions connection — but budget no organizational time or resources beyond that single outreach unless you get a direct response.