· 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.
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 |
|---|---|
| FOOTPRINT PROJECT | $18,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +95% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WDWELL DUNN5× · 2019–2024 · $135k · revenue +13% · 36% of their budget
- FPFOOTPRINT PROJECT4× · 2022–2025 · $51k · revenue +274%
- BEBIG EARS FESTIVAL4× · 2019–2024 · $30k · revenue +161%
Funded once
- WAWe Are Neutral Incone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +12%
- EFEAT FOR EQUITYone grant, 2024 · $22k · revenue 0%
- WAWE ARE FAMILY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +35%
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.
To support our purpose to love coffee and love people even more, the well coffeehouse changes lives locally and globally through the coffee it serves and the community it creates locally and the profit it donates to bring clean water…
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Ntc mission is to advance the diverse technology ecosystem by connecting and promoting members, attracting, growing and retaining tech talent, and providing opportunities to reinvest in the greater nashville community.
To provide facilities, services, and programs of the highest quality for the greatest benefit of the people, institutions, and communities of the state, and to take a leadership role in fostering the performing arts, arts education,…
World coffee research unites the global coffee industry to drive science-based agricultural solutions to urgently secure a diverse and sustainable supply of quality coffee today and for generations to come. our mission is to grow, protect,…
To raise awareness about the potential to reduce environmental harm by shifting electricity use to particular times; to encourage the development and spread of common protocols for this practice.
Zero foodprint is mobilizing the food world around agricultural climate solutions. our work aims to create a circular economy that incentivizes practices that actively draw down carbon dioxide and offer our best hope of addressing the…
Deeply rooted within the music and environmental communities, reverb educates and engages musicians and their fans to take action toward a more sustainable future.
Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.
This organization may fundraise and is responsible for managing the tennessee performing arts center endowment in order to provide income to help defray operating costs of the tennessee performing arts center.
Arts & business council of greater nashville supports and promotes the arts by driving collaboration between arts and business that contribute to the creativity, vitality, and prosperity of greater nashville/the regions/the city.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 41 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds WELL DUNN ↗
- Who funds FOOTPRINT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BIG EARS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds We Are Neutral Inc ↗
- Who funds EAT FOR EQUITY ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds HEAD COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WE ARE FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIJOU THEATRE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COFFEE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GRUNDY COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds TWLOHA INC ↗
- Who funds Global Education Center ↗
- Who funds Sportsmen & Professional Men of Coffee County Inc ↗
- Who funds TJ MARTELL FOUNDATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bonnaroo Works Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bonnaroo Works Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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