· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| AUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| UT COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE | $20,000 |
| BELMONT UNIVERSITY | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +91% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Continuing the Good Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Continuing the Good Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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