· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| PIONEER CHURCH | $10,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| COOKEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| STEVENS STREET CARE MINISTRY | $5,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN CAMP | $3,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| HEART OF THE CUMBERLANDS | $2,500 |
| MOODY RADIO | $2,000 |
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 (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 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 +63% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- UCUPPER CUMBERLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +2%
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 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
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 30 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 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 ↗
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: Baird Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Burnett Unity Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Burnett Unity Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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