· Private foundation
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k71 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEEDING AMERICA | $85,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,000 |
| AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
39 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 63 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Feeding America4× · 2021–2024 · $290k · revenue +23%- OHOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC5× · 2017–2021 · $225k · revenue +41%
Vanderbilt University4× · 2019–2023 · $90k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +46%
- GEGOVERNOR'S EARLY LITERACY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +164%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $11k
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.
To serve the crisis management, information and referral needs of america's veterans and their families.
To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.
Promoting excellence, education, professionalism and collegiality in the culinary profession
Kentucky harvest's purpose is to end local hunger by connecting with food donors and engaging volunteers to rescue excess food and move it from those who have it to those in need.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
To connect, lead, and advocate in communities to ensure service members, veterans, and their families thrive. see schedule o for additional information.veterans bridge home connects veterans and their families, in any state of transition,…
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Covenant HomeCare provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.
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.
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 353 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CRACKER BARREL CARES INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOVERNOR'S EARLY LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds A SOLDIER'S JOURNEY HOME ↗
- Who funds BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Homebound Meals Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Markets Inc ↗
- Who funds PURPLE HEART HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY dba AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE ↗
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 · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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