· Private foundation
Burnett Unity Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $88k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE RIVER COMMUNITY CHURCH | $400,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| RISING ABOVE MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $13,000 |
| COOKEVILLE RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| PIONEER CHURCH | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| STEVENS STREET CARE MINISTRY | $5,000 |
| COOKEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN CAMP | $3,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| HEART OF THE CUMBERLANDS | $2,500 |
| MOODY RADIO | $2,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +63% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 8 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k 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
- TTTennessee Technological University Foundation5× · 2021–2025 · $66k · revenue +63%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES6× · 2020–2025 · $46k · revenue +87%
- LCLIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN CAMP6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- AMALPHA MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2024 · $8k
- FCFORWARD CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $6k
- CCCROSSROADS COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
To provide new housing for economically disadvantaged families.
To assist individuals with life-controlling problems
Christ Together is a network of churches, from various denominations or independent, collaborating to reach their cities with the Gospel in both word and deed through both proclamation and acts of service.
Educate children in a christ like manner
Christian education
School
Evangelism, Church Planting, Christian Growth and discipleship.
We provide accessible biblical counseling and training, walking alongside hurting people, which leads to Christ-centered hope, help, and healing, for the Triangle and beyond.
Christian Radio Station
To create and nurture within the context of the christian community ways of healing, reconciling, and guidance for clergy and laity, for problems in their lives.
Cross to Light is a nondenominational Christian organization providing spiritual education and physical aid to people in need around the world. Since 2005, Cross to Light has helped people cross from darkness to light by hearing the Gospel…
Church ministry
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lighthouse Christian Camp and the most unlike its peers is The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 30 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 Tennessee Technological University Foundation ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN CAMP ↗
- Who funds RISING ABOVE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds UPPER CUMBERLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds UPPER CUMBERLAND CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Heart of the Cumberland Inc ↗
- Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
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.
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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 Burnett Unity Foundation Inc 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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