Tennessee · Private foundation
Continuing the Good Foundation
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.
- $364k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $79,931
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 22
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Continuing the Good Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $364k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $313k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $258k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $225k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $169k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $222k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $165k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belmont University | $60,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Doyle Bowen Memorial Park Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 29% |
| Hickman Humane Society Inc | $30,650 | 3 | 31% |
| Columbia College Chicago | $26,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Freed-Hardeman University | $22,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Hickman County Senior Citizens Inc | $19,500 | 3 | 15% |
| St Ambrose University | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Nunnelly Coummunity Center Inc | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Casa of Highland Rim | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Hickman County Chamber of Commerce | $8,500 | 1 | 8% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belmont University | $60,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Doyle Bowen Memorial Park Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 29% |
| Hickman Humane Society Inc | $30,650 | 3 | 31% |
| Columbia College Chicago | $26,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Freed-Hardeman University | $22,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Hickman County Senior Citizens Inc | $19,500 | 3 | 15% |
| St Ambrose University | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Nunnelly Coummunity Center Inc | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Casa of Highland Rim | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Hickman County Chamber of Commerce | $8,500 | 1 | 8% |
| Trevecca Nazarene University | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hickman County Education Foundation Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Helping Hands of Hickman County Inc | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Historic Downtown Centerville Inc | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Continuing the Good Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Continuing the Good Foundation
- How much does Continuing the Good Foundation give?
- Continuing the Good Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $363,501 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 22 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Continuing the Good Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (70%), Recreation & Sports (17%), Animals (4%).
- Who are Continuing the Good Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Belmont University ($60k), Doyle Bowen Memorial Park Inc ($50k), Hickman Humane Society Inc ($31k).
- Does Continuing the Good Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Continuing the Good Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Continuing the Good Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Continuing the Good Foundation based?
- Continuing the Good Foundation is based in TN.
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