· Private foundation
Burgess Family Charitable
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, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ROCKVALE 12 MAN CLUB | $5,000 |
| POSSIBILITY PLACE | $5,000 |
| BARNABAS VISION | $4,500 |
| MT DORA CHILDRENS HOME | $4,000 |
| THE MAYO CLINIC | $3,750 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPI | $2,500 |
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 (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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- CDCHILDRENS DIS MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
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…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 65 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 DOORS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds GREENHOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARNABAS VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Netivyah USA Inc ↗
- Who funds FINAL COMMAND MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds POSSIBILITY PLACE ↗
- Who funds ROCKVALE 12TH MAN CLUB ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Burgess Family Charitable funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Burgess Family Charitable. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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