· Private foundation
Christy-Houston Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $342k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $979k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE JOURNEY HOME | $1,500,000 |
| ASCENSION ST THOMAS HOSPITAL | $1,000,000 |
| CHARITY CIRCLE OF MURFREESBORO | $332,635 |
| POSSIBILITY PLACE | $166,900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $151,144 |
| GREENHOUSE MINISTRIES | $136,452 |
| Individual grant recipient | $124,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL TN | $110,810 |
| CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY HELPERS OF RUTHERFORD CO | $90,000 |
| NURTURE THE NEXT | $50,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $50,000 |
| CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC | $49,500 |
| INSIGHT COUNSELING CENTERS | $48,350 |
| INSPIRITUS INC | $45,000 |
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, $5.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +27% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 15 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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
- STSaint Thomas Rutherford Hospital5× · 2017–2022 · $5.1M · revenue +67%
- AHALIVE HOSPICE INC4× · 2017–2022 · $2.2M · revenue +23%
- JHJOURNEY HOME INC3× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +170% · 40% of their budget
Funded once
- ASASCENSION ST THOMAS RUTHERFORD FOUNone grant, 2023 · $2.0M
- ASASCENSION STTHOMAS RUTHERFORD HOSPIone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
- PIPORTICO INCone grant, 2023 · $517k · revenue -25% · 34% of their budget
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.
Provide advocacy for abused and neglected children in juvenile court.
Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…
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…
Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling
To provide court-appointed special advocates to child victims of abuse and neglect. The programs vision is a safe, permanent, loving home for every child it serves.
To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.
To advocate for people who are homless or near homeless, strategically planning for housing and services in the community, maximizing resources and collaboarating with community partners to implement housing and services within the…
The Crisis Center of Russell County was organized to provide assistance and temporary housing to victims of domestic abuse through secured temporary housing and education with job placement to transition them back into society. In…
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
The organization advocates for abused or neglected children. they make recommendations to the court on permament living arrangements andcommunicating with the child ensuring that their interests are being met.
The Home was organized to provide for the health, welfare and benefit of children whose parents or guardians are unable to care for them. The Home offers residential care and onsite academic
To be the voice for children who have been victims of abuse and/or neglect. Our vision is to serve every child in the Cheaha Region by providing them with a caring and competent trained volunteer.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Domestic Violence Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 104 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 Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital ↗
- Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds GREENHOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Community Helpers of Rutherford County ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds PORTICO INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds DOORS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds STONES RIVER MANOR INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITY CIRCLE OF MURFREESBORO ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds POSSIBILITY PLACE ↗
- Who funds STARS NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds A SOLDIERS CHILD 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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Charity Circle of Murfreesboro · Hca Healthcare Foundation · John D Floyd Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of South Central Tennessee · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Nashville Predators Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Adams Family Foundation I · Memorial Foundation Inc · Adams Family Foundation II · Burgess Family Charitable
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 Christy-Houston 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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