· Private foundation
Bailey & Lucy Evans Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $3,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| JUNIOR'S HOUSE INC | $1,900 |
| CAREGIVER RELIEF PROGRAM OF BEDFORD COUNTY | $1,900 |
| CENTER FOR FAMILY DEVELOPMENT | $1,900 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $1,900 |
| HAVEN OF HOPE OF DEKALB COUNTY | $1,900 |
| BELIEVERS FAITH FELLOWSHIP | $1,500 |
| BLUE MONARCH | $1,500 |
| CASA WORKS INC | $1,479 |
| FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $1,100 |
| HOMES OF HOPE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| A BRIDGE OF HOPE | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CDCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +32%
- JHJUNIORS HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +60%
- CWCASA WORKS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- CHCASCADE HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TOUCHDOWN CLUBone grant, 2020 · $2k
- RRROSENWALD RECREATION & COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2021 · $2k
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Counseling services provided to women and families
Effective prosecution of child abuses, providing therapy and education for the abused, and providing a safe haven for the abused.
Child abuse victim assistance
Community-based counseling, social services, prevention and diversionary youth services program. Provides child abuse/neglect and/or family violence crisis intervention, prevention and treatment to families & children
Caring for abused women & children
Provide crisis counseling to child victims of sexual abuse and their families
Working together with families and communities for children to help keep them healthy safe and smart
Counseling
Organization provides family mediation, supervised visitation, supprot groups, therapeutic interventions
Counseling
Child abuse prevention
Advocacy for abused and neglected children
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds JUNIORS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN OF HOPE OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CAREGIVER RELIEF PROGRAM OF BEDFORD ↗
- Who funds CASA WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE MONARCH ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAMILY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds SHELBYVILLE COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bailey & Lucy Evans Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bailey & Lucy Evans Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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