· Private foundation
Bill and Crissy Haslam Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k69 grants · $208k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $654k
- $50k–250k39 grants · $3.9M
- $250k+16 grants · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION | $2,600,000 |
| LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $1,000,000 |
| LAKESHORE PARK | $1,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC | $1,000,000 |
| BELMONT UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| REDEEMER CITY TO CITY | $1,000,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA INC | $750,000 |
| HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION IN | $500,000 |
| ACCELERATE | $500,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $380,000 |
| CEDAR SPRINGS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $300,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLE INC | $300,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $250,000 |
| PIVOT SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT LEADERS | $250,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $809k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +48% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
99 repeat relationships — 86 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $16M · revenue +178%
- LPLAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY7× · 2017–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +87% · 75% of their budget
- YLYOUNG LIFE5× · 2020–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +62%
Funded once
- HTHISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION INone grant, 2023 · $500k
- GSGREAT SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRone grant, 2020 · $175k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
The king's christian school is a k-12 prepatory school that equips and strengthens students through education and example, that they might stand firmly upon the word of god and to become effective servant-leaders who impact the world…
Christ-centered school educating children of diverse racial & socioeconomic backgrounds by establishing a biblical worldview & preparing each child to flourish academically, emotionally, socially & spiritually.
To put christian principles into practice through programs and activities that develop the spirit, mind and body of youth, adults and families in knoxville, tn and surrounding communities. the ymca encourages growth for youth development,…
Lead public schools exists to prepare all our students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in college and in life.
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
Educate preschool through twelfth grade children in a Christian environment while developing them spiritually,academically, emotionally, and physically with Jesus Christ as their standard and the Bible as their foundation.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
The university school of jackson, a distinctive college preparatory school, seeks to instill a passion for academic excellence and lifelong learning so each student will reach his/her maximum potential.
Building on a rich Presbyterian heritage and a pioneering spirit, Tusculum University provides an active and experiential education within a caring Christian environment to inspire civic engagement, enrich personal lives, and equip…
To provide affordable housing to low and moderate income persons in east tennessee through first-time homebuyer education; assist with mortgage loans, downpayments, and closing costs; build new single family housing; develop multi-family…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Tennessee Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Mend House Sober Living Community. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
124 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. 124 of the 164 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 THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Redeemer City To City ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC ↗
- Who funds EAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Belmont University ↗
- Who funds LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KNOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TNACHIEVES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds MARYVILLE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC ↗
- Who funds INSTRUCTION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds LANGHAM PARTNERSHIP USA INC NFP ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds PIVOT SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT LEADERS ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY INVESTMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc ↗
- Who funds KINGS ACADEMY NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds METRO DRUG COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Nashville Teacher Residency ↗
- Who funds WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND PUBLIC LIFE ↗
- Who funds PERSIST NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE KIDS BELONG INC ↗
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: Haslam Family Foundation Inc · East Tennessee Foundation · Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc · The Clayton Homes Foundation · United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc · Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee · The Boyd Foundation · Lawson Family Foundation · Gene & Florence Monday Foundation Inc · Joe C Davis Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Clayton Family Foundation
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 Bill and Crissy Haslam Foundation 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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