Our focus
Tyls Charitable Foundation is a new nonprofit built around a simple belief: families need practical support now, and people need opportunity for what comes next. Our work brings those commitments together through two pillars: feeding families and supporting education, mentoring, and future-building pathways.
The first pillar is food support. Across New Hampshire, food banks, food pantries, churches, and community organizations are working to support families and individuals facing food insecurity. At the same time, retailers and regional food donation programs often have food available through established charitable channels. The need exists, the food exists, and the organizations ready to distribute that food exist. The gap is often the logistics required to move food from one place to another reliably.
The New Hampshire Food Bank and its partner agencies provide a critical hunger relief network across the state. Public information from the NH Food Bank shows the scale of the need: 1 in 9 New Hampshire residents and 1 in 7 New Hampshire children face food insecurity. In 2024, the NH Food Bank distributed 20 million pounds of food, equal to roughly 17 million meals, through a network of more than 400 partner agencies. Local pantries depend on steady access to food so they can serve their communities consistently. When donated food is available but cannot be picked up or delivered on time, the system loses an opportunity to help people.
Retailers and corporate donation programs are an important part of this ecosystem. Many stores have food that is still usable but nearing expiration, overstocked, seasonal, or otherwise available for donation. Public materials from regional food assistance programs show what is possible when retailers, customers, food banks, pantries, churches, kitchens, and community organizations work together. Some programs have helped provide the equivalent of more than 100 million meals since 2013 by combining donations, purchasing power, and distribution partnerships. These programs prove that the supply side of food donation can work. But even when food is available, it still has to be picked up, loaded, transported, unloaded, and delivered to the organizations that can use it.
That is where Tyls Charitable Foundation is focused. Today, a single person may be responsible for multiple pickups from multiple stores. If that person is unavailable, out of town, short on fuel, or does not have enough vehicle space for a large load, the pickup may not happen. A pallet of donated food may be too much for one truck. A route may need a second driver. A pantry may be ready to receive food, but the transportation link may not yet be reliable enough. We see this as a solvable logistics problem: build a small, dependable volunteer driver network, coordinate routes, support fuel costs, and make pickups less dependent on one person.
Our second pillar is education and mentoring. TCF also wants to help people access the guidance, confidence, and skills that can lead to sustainable careers and stronger communities. That includes support for business, STEM, skilled trades, mentoring relationships, and real-world learning opportunities. Food support helps stabilize the present; education and mentoring help open the future.
Our focus is New Hampshire. We are starting small and building responsibly: identifying repeatable pickup routes, recruiting volunteer drivers, supporting fuel and basic transportation costs, and creating a simple coordination system that can grow over time. As we develop, we will keep both sides of the foundation visible: dependable support for families today and pathways that help people build opportunity over time.