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Butler Snow O'Mara Stevens & Cannada Foundation at a glance

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Butler Snow O'Mara Stevens & Cannada Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$200k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$192kHealth$190kEducation$139kHuman Services$110kHousing & Shelter$77kYouth Development$55kFood & Nutrition$49kPhilanthropy$47kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $122k
$7,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$983k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEST TENNESSEE LEGAL SERVICES$20,000
DAILY PLANET HEALTH SERVICES$20,000
STEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES$18,134
MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY$15,000
WELLSTONE$15,000
SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER$14,000
SOUTH HOUSTON NSBE JR$10,000
UNITED ABILITY INC$10,000
NEXT STEP MINISTRIES INC$7,500
WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN LANGUAGE EDUCATION$7,500
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MS CAPITAL AREA$7,500
TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT$7,500
METROBOOMING TRAINING ACADEMY$7,500
BAPTIST MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION$6,695
SEEDLING FOUNDATION$6,400
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%THE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%CHRISTIAN SERVICE MISSION: $5k → 16%NEXT STEP MINISTRIES INC: $8k → 6%HOPE FARMS PROJECT: $12k → 6%RAMP ACCESS MADE POSSIBLE BY STUDENTS: $5k → 6%CHRISTIAN SERVICE MISSION: $1k → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY: $15k → 5%CHRISTIAN SERVICE MISSION: $380 → 16%LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $3k → 19%THE LOVELADY CENTER: $8k → 16%GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC: $5k → 16%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF MISSISSIPPI: $8k → 23%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $5k → 16%FIRST LIGHT INC: $5k → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $4k → 16%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
CO
MO
VA
NM
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

15%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$161k · 23 repeat orgs$890k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
87

Total granted

$161k
$694k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+11%

Still filing today

87%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $196k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthEducationCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BUT GOD MINISTRIES
    2× · 2019–2022 · $35k · revenue +49%
  • TV
    THE VICTOR S JOHNSON III NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $34k · revenue +122%
  • TA
    Texas Advocacy Project
    2× · 2021–2023 · $33k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SCHOOL OF LAW
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • MT
    MISSISSIPPI'S TOUGHEST KIDS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -21%
  • BG
    Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Louisiana Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +192%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
2
The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas

The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.

Human Services
3
Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement
4
Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc

To lead a network of partners and unite the community to eliminate hunger by feeding, nourishing, and empowering those we serve.

Food & Nutrition
5
Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee

Second harvest food bank of east tennessee is dedicated to compassionately feeding east tennesseans experiencing hunger & engaging the community in the fight to eliminate hunger.

—
6
Community Food Bank of Central Alabama

To feed people in need today and foster collaborative solutions to end hunger tomorrow.

Food & Nutrition
7
Feed the Hunger Inc

Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.

—
8
Southeast Missouri Food Bank Inc

The mission of the southeast missouri food bank is to promote food recovery; acquire and distribute food and household products; and provide community leadership and education on issues of hunger and poverty in an effort to alleviate…

Food & Nutrition
9
Regional East Texas Food Bank

Etfb's mission is to fight hunger and feed hope in east texas.

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10
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
11
Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Inc

The mission of the regional food bank of oklahoma is to lead a network that provides nutritious food and pathways to self-sufficiency for people facing hunger. our vision is an oklahoma where no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
12
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Food Network Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Foundation At Shield Ranch. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

101 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. 101 of the 132 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/101
Grantees still filing
60/101
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SCHOOL OF LAW: $25,000 · OtherBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Louisiana Inc: $25,000 · OtherMISSISSIPPI VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · OtherDAILY PLANET INCORPORATED: $20,000 · OtherWest Tennessee Legal Services INC: $20,000 · OtherSERVING YOU MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherSTEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $18,134 · OtherBUT GOD MINISTRIES: $35,300 · OtherBUT GOD MINISTRIESMISSISSIPPI'S TOUGHEST KIDS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Other+66 more: $253,817 · Other+66 moreOPERATION SHOESTRING INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION SHOES…MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY: $15,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS…THE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE OTHER ONES …HOPE FARMS PROJECT INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesHOPE FARMS PROJ…Gigis House Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesGigis House IncFIRST LIGHT INC: $8,750 · Human ServicesFIRST LIGHT INCCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTERS OF MISSISSIPPI: $8,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS ADVOC…FREEDOM RAIN INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM RAIN IN…Next Step Ministries Inc: $7,500 · Human ServicesSUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME FOUNDATION: $7,300 · Human ServicesChristian Service Mission Inc: $6,580 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $5,000 · Human ServicesGRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesGRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesRAMP ACCESS MADE POSSIBLE BY STUDENTS: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,800 · Human ServicesTHE VICTOR S JOHNSON III NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC: $33,667 · Crime & LegalTHE VICTOR S …THE TREE HOUSE INC: $20,000 · Crime & LegalTHE TREE HOUS…American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education: $10,000 · Crime & LegalAmerican Bar …MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $10,000 · Crime & LegalMISSISSIPPI C…CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF TEXAS INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S AD…TENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalTENNESSEE JUS…Count Appointment Special Advocates of South Mississippi: $9,000 · Crime & LegalCount Appoint…HANANIAH HOUSE: $8,810 · Crime & LegalHANANIAH HOUS…TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $7,500 · Crime & LegalTENNESSEE INN…PRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES INC: $5,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $2,400 · Crime & LegalMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationMEHARRY MED…CORPORATION FOR GLOBAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $20,000 · EducationCORPORATION…REACH MEMPHIS: $16,200 · EducationREACH MEMPH…SUMMER SCHOLARS: $10,000 · EducationSUMMER SCHO…UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …GREAT EDUCATION COLORADO: $7,400 · EducationGREAT EDUCA…SEEDLING FOUNDATION: $6,400 · EducationSEEDLING FO…THE REDEEMERS SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL OF MEMPHIS: $5,000 · Education+2 more: $5,138 · EducationWELLSTONE INC: $15,000 · HealthWELLSTONE I…B'NAI B'RITH HOME AND HOSPITAL FOR AGED INC (D/B/A MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME & REHAB): $14,585 · HealthB'NAI B'RIT…SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $14,000 · HealthSEXUAL ASSA…UNITED ABILITY INC: $10,000 · HealthUNITED ABIL…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL GEORGIA: $10,000 · HealthRONALD MCDO…MITCHELL'S PLACE INC: $10,000 · HealthMITCHELL'S …CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $7,617 · HealthCHURCH HEAL…THE WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION: $7,500 · HealthTHE WOOLLEY…BAPTIST MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $6,695 · HealthBAPTIST MEM…ST THOMAS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $5,000 · HealthMAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $3,050 · HealthTexas Advocacy Project: $33,333 · Arts & CultureLYNN MEADOWS DISCOVERY CENTER: $19,300 · Arts & CultureTRAVELLERS REST HISTORIC HOUSE MUSEUM INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMEMPHIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $29,651 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyCREATE FOUNDATION: $1,860 · Philanthropy
Other$487,251Human Services$145,930Crime & Legal$126,377Education$110,138Health$108,447Arts & Culture$57,633Philanthropy$46,511

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBUT GOD MINISTRIES: $35,300 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE VICTOR S JOHNSON III NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC: $33,667 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTexas Advocacy Project: $33,333 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMEMPHIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $29,651 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMISSISSIPPI'S TOUGHEST KIDS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Louisiana Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SHOESTRING INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDAILY PLANET INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWest Tennessee Legal Services INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TREE HOUSE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCORPORATION FOR GLOBAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetLYNN MEADOWS DISCOVERY CENTER: $19,300 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSTEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $18,134 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREACH MEMPHIS: $16,200 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS: $15,585 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBinghampton Christian Academy Inc: $15,300 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH HOME AND HOSPITAL FOR AGED INC (D/B/A MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME & REHAB): $14,585 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $14,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInst for People Place Possibility: $12,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL NEW MEXICO: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE FARMS PROJECT INC: $12,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetAmerican Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGigis House Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED ABILITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMER SCHOLARS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL GEORGIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSCOTTDALE EARLY LEARNING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMITCHELL'S PLACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF TEXAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION FIRST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCount Appointment Special Advocates of South Mississippi: $9,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHANANIAH HOUSE: $8,810 over 1y, 11% of budgetFIRST LIGHT INC: $8,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTERS OF MISSISSIPPI: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFREEDOM RAIN INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDGAR AND MYRLIE EVERS INSTITUTE: $7,670 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $7,617 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI FOOD NETWORK INC: $7,580 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Ergon Foundation IncThe Daniel Foundation…Community Foundation …Cadence Bank Foundati…Hill Crest Foundation…Alabama Power Foundat…The Community Foundat…Century Club Charitie…Selby and Richard McR…Van Devender Family F…His Way IncCommunity Foundation …
Ergon Foundation IncMS29.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ergon Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Cadence Bank Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Century Club Charities Inc · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · His Way Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Butler Snow O'Mara Stevens & Cannada Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Butler Snow O'Mara Stevens & Cannada Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
57report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 132 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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