· Private foundation
Burgess Family Charitable
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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $97k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $164k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MID TN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $109,000 |
| N BLVD CHURCH OF CHRIST | $55,000 |
| CHILDRENS DISCOV CENTER | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $19,525 |
| GREENHOUSE MINISTRIES | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,000 |
| DOORS OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| SEQUOIA CAMPUS CHURCH | $10,000 |
| FINAL COMMAND MINISTRIE | $10,000 |
| POSSIBILITY PLACE | $5,000 |
| ROCKVALE 12 MAN CLUB | $5,000 |
| BARNABAS VISION | $4,500 |
| MT DORA CHILDRENS HOME | $4,000 |
| THE MAYO CLINIC | $3,750 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPI | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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.
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 +17% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 13 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k 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
- DODOORS OF HOPE5× · 2021–2025 · $116k · revenue +61%
- GMGREENHOUSE MINISTRIES2× · 2023–2025 · $64k · revenue +22%
- JHJOURNEY HOME INC2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- MTMID TN CHSRISTIAN SCHOOone grant, 2023 · $85k
- GMGREENHOUSE MINISTRYone grant, 2021 · $25k
- MTMID TN STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
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…
From His Presense is a ministry reaching out to people around the world bringing a message of christian values. they do this with electronic media distribution through the website.Provide support for ministers and missionaries.
Grace house is a faith based ministry focused on training & supporting women at risk who desire assistance in overcoming addictive & destructive lifestyles & becoming productive citizens. we provide a protected environment both physically…
To help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…
Preaching, teaching, writing and traveling ministry for the docusen family to serve christian churches and organizations.
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.
The organization provides transitional and emergency housing in conjuction withsupportive services, case management and life skills training for homeless anddisadvantaged people.
Helpfamiliesimpactedbydomesticabusefindredemption
The primary purpose of this organization is to promote the teachings of jesus christ through the personal ministry of dr rt kendall.
Spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ
To preach and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ through evangelism, teaching, counseling, discipling and outreach. Our specific ministry is to those broken through addiction and trauma, providing recovery and life training skills through…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Journey Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rockvale 12TH Man Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 65 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 DOORS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds GREENHOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARNABAS VISION INC ↗
- Who funds POSSIBILITY PLACE ↗
- Who funds FINAL COMMAND MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Netivyah USA Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKVALE 12TH MAN CLUB ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds PORTICO INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
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: Adams Family Foundation I · Christy-Houston Foundation Inc · Adams Family Foundation II · Charity Circle of Murfreesboro · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Jennings & Rebecca Jones Foundation Inc · Coggin Family Foundation · John D Floyd Charitable Foundation Inc · The Sixteen Foundation · Laroche Family Foundation · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Burgess Family Charitable 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.
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.
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