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Devine-Majors 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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$344k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$2.5MHealth$955kFood & Nutrition$810kRecreation & Sports$409kPublic Safety & Disaster$279kHuman Services$261kPhilanthropy$175kEnvironment$166kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $997k
  • $250k+1 grant · $344k
$6,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL$344,334
CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC$200,000
SECOND HARVEST COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$200,000
PERSIST NASHVILLE$100,000
THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC$100,000
KIPP ACADEMY NASHVILLE$100,000
SILOAM HEALTH$75,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$71,545
FIRST HORIZON FOUNDATION$50,000
ABE'S GARDEN COMMUNITY$50,000
TENNESSEE CHARTER SCHOOL INCUBATOR INC$50,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC$25,000
FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC$15,000
PROJECT ATHENA FOUNDATION$10,000
JOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INC$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $298k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER & PUTNAM: $10k → 9%WOMEN ARE SAFE INC: $1k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $116k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $72k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $41k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%FANNIE BATTLE DAY HOME FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 14%FANNIE BATTLE DAY HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $500 → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $1k → 14%HOPE FOR JUSTICE: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
MA
SD
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
SC
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.4M · 33 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
47

Total granted

$4.4M
$692k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+23%

Still filing today

82%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $603k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationAnimalsHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • TH
    THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $725k · revenue +95%
  • FU
    FISK UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2023 · $700k · revenue +21%
  • SH
    SILOAM HEALTH
    5× · 2019–2024 · $551k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • JM
    JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • SA
    ST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +25%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation

The nashville chamber public benefit foundation supports the work of the nashville area chamber of commerce through efforts to improve the quality of education, encourage public and private efforts around education, and to facilitate the…

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2
Nashville Cares

Nashville cares exists to end the hiv epidemic, promote comprehensive sexual health and end sexual health stigmatization and discrimination through prevention, education, treatment, support, advocacy, and strategic partnership.

Health
3
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
4
Nashville Food Project Inc

The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.

Food & Nutrition
5
Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce

The nashville area chamber of commerce facilitates community leadership to create economic prosperity.

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6
Furman University

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.

Education
7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Tennessee State Collaborative On Reforming Education

The mission of the state collaborative on reforming education (score) is to catalyze transformative change in tennessee education so that all students can achieve success. score is an independent, nonprofit, and nonpartisan institution,…

Education
10
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
11
Harpeth Conservancy

To restore and protect clean water and healthy ecosystems for rivers in tennessee by employing scientific expertise and collaborative relationships to develop, promote, and support broad community stewardship and action.

Environment
12
Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc

Lead our community's efforts to house, support, empower and advocate for families experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is First Horizon Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Food Banks and PantriesChristian Missionary Organi…Community FoundationsCancer Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterHealth Access Advocacy and …Policy Research and AdvocacyDomestic Violence ServicesLocal History MuseumsIndependent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%5%<5yr14%5%5–10yr17%14%10–20yr13%24%20–35yr11%26%35–55yr24%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr17%3%10–20yr13%9%20–35yr11%35%35–55yr24%49%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/71
the rest of the field
13%
4,628/36,329

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.

04the grantee network

69 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. 69 of the 102 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/69
Grantees still filing
47/69
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL — $725,334 · EducationTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOLFISK UNIVERSITY — $700,000 · EducationFISK UNIVERSITYKIPP NASHVILLE — $321,000 · EducationKIPP NASHVILLETHE WEBB SCHOOL — $290,000 · EducationTHE WEBB SCHOOLPERSIST NASHVILLE — $115,000 · EducationST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC — $100,000 · Education+5 more — $86,222 · EducationSILOAM HEALTH — $550,500 · OtherSILOAM HEALTHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK — $250,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKSECOND HARVEST COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $200,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST COMMUNITY FOOD BANKJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $135,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INCTHE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC — $134,500 · OtherTHE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC+65 more — $552,510 · Other+65 moreFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC — $374,500 · Recreation & Sports+2 more — $4,000 · Recreation & SportsCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $47,000 · HealthJOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INC — $35,000 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical Center — $25,000 · Health+3 more — $4,500 · HealthSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC — $310,000 · Food & NutritionAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $278,667 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM — $10,000 · Human Services+5 more — $9,500 · Human ServicesMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC — $175,000 · ReligionHEAL MINISTRIES INC — $38,600 · Religion
Education$2,337,556Other$1,922,510Recreation & Sports$378,500Health$311,500Food & Nutrition$310,000Human Services$298,167Religion$213,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL — $725,334 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetFISK UNIVERSITY — $700,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSILOAM HEALTH — $550,500 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC — $374,500 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetKIPP NASHVILLE — $321,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC — $310,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WEBB SCHOOL — $290,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $278,667 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $200,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC — $175,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $135,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC — $134,500 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetPERSIST NASHVILLE — $115,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFirst Horizon Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTENNESSEE CHARTER SCHOOL CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $47,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEAL MINISTRIES INC — $38,600 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetJOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIST ART MUSEUM — $18,450 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNashville Symphony Association — $15,330 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHunter Museum of American Art — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFUTURE 5 INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNASHVILLE ZOO INC — $7,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFANNIE BATTLE DAY HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FAISON CENTER INC — $5,222 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOODWILL FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE HAVEN — $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEE OFF FORE LIFE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDICKSON COUNTY HELP CENTER INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS — $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT RETURN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Memorial Foundation I…The Community Foundat…Hca Healthcare Founda…The Frist FoundationNashville Predators F…The Steven & Laurie E…Joe C Davis FoundationUnited Way of Middle …The Bryant Family Fou…Sandra Schatten Found…The Wade-Buntin Famil…Dorothy Cate and Thom…
Memorial Foundation IncTN36× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Bryant Family Foundation · Sandra Schatten Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist 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 Devine-Majors 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 102 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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