Tennessee · Private foundation
Bonnaroo Works Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $18k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $18,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $18,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations Bonnaroo Works Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $18k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $102k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $110k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $123k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $3k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $62k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $363k | 71% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $285k | 63% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Well Dunn | $135,000 | 5 | 36% |
| Footprint Project | $51,437 | 4 | 1% |
| Big Ears Festival | $30,000 | 4 | 1% |
| We Are Neutral Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Eat for Equity | $22,000 | 1 | 25% |
| Manchester Chamber of Commerce | $20,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Head Count Inc | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Oxfam-America Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| We Are Family Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Bijou Theatre Center | $7,037 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Well Dunn | $135,000 | 5 | 36% |
| Footprint Project | $51,437 | 4 | 1% |
| Big Ears Festival | $30,000 | 4 | 1% |
| We Are Neutral Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Eat for Equity | $22,000 | 1 | 25% |
| Manchester Chamber of Commerce | $20,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Head Count Inc | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Oxfam-America Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| We Are Family Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Bijou Theatre Center | $7,037 | 2 | 0% |
| Historic Tennessee Theatre Foundation | $7,026 | 2 | 0% |
| Coffee County Humane Society Inc | $6,375 | 1 | 9% |
| Grundy County Food Bank | $3,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Girls Behind the Rock Show Inc | $3,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Twloha Inc | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Global Education Center | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sportsmen & Professional Men of Coffee County Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Tj Martell Foundation | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($941k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bonnaroo Works Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Bonnaroo Works Fund
- How much does Bonnaroo Works Fund give?
- Bonnaroo Works Fund reported 1 grants totaling $18,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bonnaroo Works Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (44%), Philanthropy (39%), Youth Development (6%).
- Who are Bonnaroo Works Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Well Dunn ($135k), Footprint Project ($51k), Big Ears Festival ($30k).
- Does Bonnaroo Works Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bonnaroo Works Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bonnaroo Works Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Bonnaroo Works Fund based?
- Bonnaroo Works Fund is based in TN.
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