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Christy-Houston Foundation Inc at a glance

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Christy-Houston Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$17MHuman Services$3.1MHousing & Shelter$2.2MPhilanthropy$1.6MReligion$1.5MCommunity Improvement$1.1MCrime & Legal$1.0MFood & Nutrition$944kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $342k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $979k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.8M
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$97M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$50,000
NURTURE THE NEXT$50,000
CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC$49,500
INSIGHT COUNSELING CENTERS$48,350
INSPIRITUS INC$45,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%A SOLDIERS CHILD: $39k → 9%A SOLDIER'S CHILD: $30k → 9%A SOLDIERS CHILD FOUNDATION: $22k → 9%A SOLDIERS CHILD: $10k → 9%A SOLDIERS CHILD: $10k → 9%GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDRENS HOME: $30k → 9%GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDRENS HOME: $20k → 9%INSIGHT COUNSELING CENTERS: $48k → 14%GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDRENS HOME: $10k → 9%GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDRENS HOME: $10k → 9%GREENHOUSE MINISTRIES: $1.1M → 9%ALIVE HOSPICE: $245k → 14%GREENHOUSE MINISTRIES: $183k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROGRAM: $150k → 9%GREENHOUSE MINISTRIES: $136k → 9%JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING: $100k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROGRAM: $50k → 9%INSIGHT COUNSELING CENTERS: $25k → 9%ARCHIES PROMISE: $25k → 9%GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDRENS HOME: $10k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROGRAM: $10k → 9%CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 9%GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDRENS HOME: $10k → 9%GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDRENS HOME: $10k → 9%ALIVE HOSPICE: $883k → 9%ALIVE HOSPICE: $734k → 9%ALIVE HOSPICE: $382k → 9%STONES RIVER MANOR: $350k → 9%JOURNEY IN COMMUNITY LIVING: $195k → 9%JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING: $150k → 9%JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING: $55k → 9%CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 9%JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING: $10k → 9%CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 9%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.
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 40 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against -5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
49

Total granted

$21M
$8.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
-5%

Still filing today

65%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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
HealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalCivil RightsArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • ST
    Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital
    5× · 2017–2022 · $5.1M · revenue +67%
  • AH
    ALIVE HOSPICE INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $2.2M · revenue +23%
  • JH
    JOURNEY HOME INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +170% · 40% of their budget

Funded once

  • AS
    ASCENSION ST THOMAS RUTHERFORD FOUN
    one grant, 2023 · $2.0M
  • AS
    ASCENSION STTHOMAS RUTHERFORD HOSPI
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
  • PI
    PORTICO INC
    one grant, 2023 · $517k · revenue -25% · 34% of their budget
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
Casa of the Tennessee Heartland Inc

Provide advocacy for abused and neglected children in juvenile court.

Civil Rights
2
Tennessee Children's Home Inc

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…

Human Services
3
Rahab House

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…

Human Services
4
Greater Chattanooga Christian Services Inc

Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling

Human Services
5
Casa of Robertson County Inc

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.

Human Services
6
The Child Advocacy Center of Anderson Co Tn

To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.

Human Services
7
Chattanooga Regional Homeless Coalition Inc

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…

Community Improvement
8
Crisis Center of Russell County

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…

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Westcare Tennessee Inc

To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.

Health
10
Williamson County Casa Inc

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.

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11
East Tennessee Christian Home Inc

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

Human Services
12
Court Appointed Special Advocates

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.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Domestic Violence Program Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 104 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
25/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASCENSION ST THOMAS RUTHERFORD FOUN: $2,010,000 · OtherASCENSION ST THOMAS RUTHERFORD FOUNPRIMARY CARE HOPE CLINIC: $2,000,000 · OtherPRIMARY CARE HOPE CLINICJOURNEY HOME INC: $1,520,000 · OtherJOURNEY HOME INCIndividual grant recipient: $1,346,878 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHARITY CIRCLE: $1,336,172 · OtherCHARITY CIRCLEASCENSION STTHOMAS RUTHERFORD HOSPI: $1,000,000 · OtherASCENSION STTHOMAS RUTHERFORD HOSPIASCENSION ST THOMAS HOSPITAL: $1,000,000 · OtherASCENSION ST THOMAS HOSPITALCommunity Helpers of Rutherford County: $739,000 · Other+64 more: $7,549,501 · Other+64 moreSaint Thomas Rutherford Hospital: $5,085,000 · HealthSaint Thomas Rutherford …SPECIAL KIDS INC: $547,731 · HealthSPECIAL KIDS INCPORTICO INC: $517,250 · HealthPORTICO INCCOMMUNITY CARE OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC: $406,038 · HealthCOMMUNITY CARE OF RUTHER…+7 more: $398,000 · Health+7 moreALIVE HOSPICE INC: $2,245,000 · Human ServicesALIVE HOSPICE INCGREENHOUSE MINISTRIES: $1,386,452 · Human ServicesGREENHOUSE MINISTR…JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING INC: $509,834 · Human ServicesJOURNEYS IN COMMUN…STONES RIVER MANOR INC: $350,000 · Human ServicesSTONES RIVER MANOR…DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROGRAM INC: $210,000 · Human ServicesPOSSIBILITY PLACE: $186,900 · Human Services+5 more: $360,224 · Human Services+5 moreDOORS OF HOPE: $482,329 · Crime & LegalStepping Stones Safe Haven Inc: $70,000 · Crime & LegalNURTURE THE NEXT FKA PREVENT CHILD ABUSE TENNESSEE: $50,000 · Crime & LegalBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $15,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $5,000 · Arts & CultureENDURE ATHLETICS FOUNDATION INC: $113,925 · Philanthropy
Other$18,501,551Health$6,954,019Human Services$5,248,410Crime & Legal$602,329Youth Development$325,000Arts & Culture$130,000Philanthropy$113,925

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 budgetSaint Thomas Rutherford Hospital: $5,085,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetALIVE HOSPICE INC: $2,245,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetJOURNEY HOME INC: $1,520,000 over 3y, 40% of budgetGREENHOUSE MINISTRIES: $1,386,452 over 3y, 33% of budgetCommunity Helpers of Rutherford County: $739,000 over 5y, 44% of budgetSPECIAL KIDS INC: $547,731 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetPORTICO INC: $517,250 over 1y, 34% of budgetJOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING INC: $509,834 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetDOORS OF HOPE: $482,329 over 5y, 20% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC: $406,038 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSTONES RIVER MANOR INC: $350,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetCHARITY CIRCLE OF MURFREESBORO: $332,635 over 1y, 45% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $300,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROGRAM INC: $210,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetPOSSIBILITY PLACE: $186,900 over 3y, 23% of budgetSTARS NASHVILLE: $135,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetA SOLDIERS CHILD INC: $131,874 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetENDURE ATHLETICS FOUNDATION INC: $113,925 over 2y, 19% of budgetCENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN'S HOME: $100,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $99,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT TRANSFORMATION TENNESSEE INC: $85,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetINTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE: $80,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPASTORAL COUNSELING CENTERS OF TENN: $73,350 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetStepping Stones Safe Haven Inc: $70,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL TENNESSEE: $53,815 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNURTURE THE NEXT FKA PREVENT CHILD ABUSE TENNESSEE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMOTHERS' MILK BANK SOUTHEAST: $49,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCASA OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY: $45,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetChild Advocacy Center: $30,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetARCHIES PROMISE: $25,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPREVENTION COALITION FOR SUCCESS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetREAD TO SUCCEED: $15,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetONE GENERATION AWAY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRANCHES RECOVERY CENTERS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCASA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Charity Circle of Mur…Hca Healthcare Founda…John D Floyd Charitab…United Way of South C…The Healing Trust For…Nashville Predators F…United Way of Middle …Adams Family Foundati…Memorial Foundation I…Adams Family Foundati…Burgess Family Charit…
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN49.7× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Christy-Houston Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christy-Houston Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Christy-Houston Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Christy-Houston Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 104 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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