· Private foundation
Claire Adair Hendrickson 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Darlington Schools | $10,000 |
| Chase Law School | $10,000 |
| Tom Browning Boys & Girls Club | $8,000 |
| First Presbyterian Church | $8,000 |
| Miracle League of Buffalo Trace | $5,000 |
| United Way of Mason County | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Foxcroft School | $3,000 |
| Kentucky Educational Television | $3,000 |
| Limestone Ministries | $3,000 |
| Chatham Hall | $3,000 |
| Limestone Family YMCA | $3,000 |
| MCTC Foundation Scholarship Fund | $3,000 |
| Kentucky Gateway Museum Center | $3,000 |
| Maysville Players Inc | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
37 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 6 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- DSDarlington School Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +46%
- TBTOM BROWNING BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB8× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +29%
- LFLIMESTONE FAMILY YMCA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- TBTom Browning BoysGirls Clubone grant, 2024 · $8k
- CACONEXION AMERICASone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -35%
- NFNASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +107%
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.
Arts & business council of greater nashville supports and promotes the arts by driving collaboration between arts and business that contribute to the creativity, vitality, and prosperity of greater nashville/the regions/the city.
Greenspaces exists to further sustainability in the chattanooga region, by promoting and developing environmentally preferable practices for living, working and building.
Lead public schools exists to prepare all our students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in college and in life.
The organization's primary mission is conserving land where people and nature can thrive by creating green corridors linking existing public lands using conservation easments and outright purchase.
King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.
To positively impact the economy and quality of life of the greater nashville area by attracting and promoting professional and amateur sporting events.
In fulfillment of our mission to inspire a culture of understanding and discovery of our natural world through conservation, innovation and leadership, our goal is to build a first class zoo for middle tennessee and to develop a facility…
Goodwill builds pathways that help people pursue the life they want to achieve. goodwill exists to help people see possibilities, seize opportunities, and prosper. we partner with individuals to identify their strengths, interests and…
Brooklyn Heights Community Garden cultivates healthy community through growing food, intergenerational learning and creative play.
To cultivate healthy communities by supporting relationships between local farmers, producers, and the public.
The united way of south central tennessee's mission is to improve lives by advancing opportunities for education, health, and financial stability for all. its vision is to be the primary community solutions leader for human services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tom Browning Boys and Girls Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 55 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 Darlington School Inc ↗
- Who funds TOM BROWNING BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds LIMESTONE FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAYSVILLE PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds Foxcroft School ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM HALL ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds LIMESTONE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LUCKY DOG ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL BOOK PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Southern Smoke Foundation ↗
- Who funds Ion Center for Violence Prevention Inc ↗
- Who funds Miracle League of Buffalo Trace ↗
- Who funds SPRINKLES OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MASON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Highlands Community Child Development Center ↗
- Who funds Highlands Biological Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SOS OUTREACH ↗
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: Pulley Foundation · Hayswood Foundation Inc · International Paper Company Foundation · Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation · The Frist Foundation · The Charles E and Mary Elizabeth Scripps Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Claire Adair Hendrickson 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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