· Private foundation
Ahrens Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $151k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREG HOOD MINISTRIES | $129,700 |
| LEGACY MISSION VILLAGE | $50,000 |
| BAREFOOT REPUBLIC CAMP & RETREAT CENTER | $40,250 |
| REGENERATION NASHVILLE | $35,000 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $30,000 |
| FUTURE CHURCH FRANKLIN | $25,800 |
| THE BRIDGE MINISTRY INC | $20,000 |
| TWO HEARTS PREGNANCY AID | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| PAN-MASS CHALLENGE | $1,500 |
| FRANK TOWN OPEN HEARTS | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $266k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- THTWO HEARTS PREGNANCY AID2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +50%
- CFCENTERSTONE FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $4k · revenue +42%
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $4k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- NLNEW LENS BIBLICAL STUDIESone grant, 2021 · $5k
- WCWILLIAMSON CHRISTIAN COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -2%
- HHOMEFULLgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +33%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.
The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…
Rahab House is deeply committed to the rescue, refuge, and restoration of human trafficking survivors. We provide comprehensive support that encompasses immediate safety and connections to long-term restorative care in alignment with the…
Our mission is simple yet profound, changing lives through christ. we want to help individuals come to christ, being redeemed by his blood and restored and transformed by his word. our goal is to assist individuals struggling with…
To reach out with the message of the gospel of jesus to the last, least, and the lost
The mission of My Fathers House Nashville (MFHN) is to provide shelter, parenting education, recovery information and life skills for fathers transitioning out of institutional settings or homelessness.
To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.
The palmetto women's center in rock hill, sc is a non-profit agency serving the greater rock hill area since 1984. pwc offers pregnancy counseling, medical services, such as ultrasound and pregnancy testing, case management options to…
The vision of luke10 ministries inc is to help all residents of sw georgia to understand, appreciate and embrace cultural diversity and demonstrate the love of jesus. luke1o ministries inc accomplishes this by a holistic approach to…
See schedule o description of our mission and vision.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homefull and the most unlike its peers is Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LEGACY MISSION VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds TWO HEARTS PREGNANCY AID ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSON CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOMEFULL ↗
- Who funds CENTERSTONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON NASHVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Centers of Middle Tennessee Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds PROVERBS 1210 ANIMAL RESCUE AND ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds FRANK TOWN OPEN HEARTS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds MURPHSLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Servant Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ahrens Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.