· Private foundation
Big Guy Foundation Inc
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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| St Thomas Aquinas College | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,876 |
| Nigist Legesse | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,750 |
| Melanoma Research Foundation | $1,500 |
| Little Shelter Animal Adoption | $1,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
78 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 55 since wound down; 14 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GBGRENVILLE BAKER BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC4× · 2019–2022 · $377k · revenue +20% · 48% of their budget
- STST THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +87%
- FIFUTURES IN EDUCATION3× · 2019–2021 · $19k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $21k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $16k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $13k
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.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
The mission of the breast cancer research foundation, inc. is to prevent and cure breast cancer by advancing the world's most promising research.
The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…
To help conquer cancer and other diseases through the application of biostatistical principles and innovative data management methods.
How this is measured
84 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 84 of the 161 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.
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: Hca Healthcare Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · Dettwiller Foundation · The Frist Foundation · American Express Foundation · United Way of Williamson County · John D Floyd Charitable Foundation Inc · T & T Family Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Big Guy Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Big Guy Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- One Can Help Inc: 8% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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