· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $209k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOWN OF CENTERVILLE - BASKETBALL CO | $79,931 |
| DOYLE BOWEN MEMORIAL PARK | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE CHATTANOOGA | $34,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE MARTIN | $29,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE KNOXVILLE | $22,800 |
| BELMONT UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| AUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| UT COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE | $20,000 |
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| SOUTH MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY | $12,802 |
| CENTERVILLE MUNICIPAL GOLF | $12,500 |
| MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY | $11,500 |
| HICKMAN HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,500 |
| FREED HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| HICKMAN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL | $7,468 |
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 (FY19–24, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 70% 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.
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 +91% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k 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
- BUBelmont University5× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +43%
- HHHICKMAN HUMANE SOCIETY INC3× · 2023–2025 · $31k · revenue +120% · 31% of their budget
- CCColumbia College Chicago4× · 2021–2024 · $26k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- APAUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSone grant, 2020 · $65k
- CMCENTERVILLE MUNICIPAL GOLone grant, 2020 · $21k
- EHEAST HICKMAN HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $19k
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.
Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…
The mission of hardin-simmons university is to be a community dedicated to providing excellence in education enlightened by christian faith and values.
See schedule othe harrisburg university of science and technology offers innovative academic and research programs in science and technology that respond to local and global needs. the institution fosters a diverse community of learners,…
Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…
Howard payne university is a christ-centered academic community dedicated to excellence by developing and equipping the whole person for intellectual inquiry, personal and professional integrity, and service to god and humanity.
Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
Simpson university is a christ-centered learning community committed to developing each student in mind, faith, and character for a life-time of meaningful work and service in a constantly changing world.
A liberal arts college founded in 1849 and associated with the united methodist church, providing quality education for all students in an atomosphere that promotes intellectual pursuit, spiritual growth and personal responsibility.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hickman County Education Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Doyle Bowen Memorial Park Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 46 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 Belmont University ↗
- Who funds Doyle Bowen Memorial Park Inc ↗
- Who funds HICKMAN HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Columbia College Chicago ↗
- Who funds FREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HICKMAN COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CASA OF HIGHLAND RIM ↗
- Who funds HICKMAN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HICKMAN COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS OF HICKMAN COUNTY 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 · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Continuing the Good 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.