· Private foundation
Diersch Family 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, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST THOMAS THE APOSTLE CHURCH | $15,000 |
| PAWS WITH A CAUSE | $15,000 |
| TELLICO VILLAGE LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| OUR PLACE | $5,000 |
| SMOKEY MOUNTAIN SERVICE DOGS | $5,000 |
| TIMELESS TELLICO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| 1ST LT AL BONNYMAN JR VFW POST 1213 | $3,000 |
| 11TH ARMORED CALVARY'S VVC | $3,000 |
| TELLICO VILLAGE VOLUNTARY FIRE DEP | $3,000 |
| CATHOLIC NEWMAN CENTER | $3,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,500 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS | $2,500 |
| BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $2,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF EAST TN | $1,000 |
| LOUDON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $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 (FY18–25, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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
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 100% of Diersch Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 55% of the giving stays in TN; by stated purpose, 0%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KFKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC5× · 2018–2022 · $52k · revenue +29%
- SMSmoky Mountain Service Dogs8× · 2018–2025 · $42k · revenue +117%
- PWPaws With A Cause2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- POPRINCE OF PEACE CATHOLIC NEWMAN CENone grant, 2018 · $25k
- POPRINCE OF PEACE CATHOLIC NEWMAN CTRone grant, 2019 · $15k
- STST THOMAS THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC CHUone grant, 2019 · $15k
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.
Ypsilanti Meals on Wheels provides nutritious meals, social contact and other services to the homebound elderly, ill and disabled in eastern Washtenaw County, to enable them to enjoy healthier, safer, and more independent lives.
Provides home delivered meals to the house bound residents of Torrance and Lomita.
See Schedule OFort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels provides comprehensive services, including Meals on Wheels, congregate meals, transportation, case management, health screenings, information and referral services, recreation, and more. Our…
To provide isolated homebound seniors in san francisco with nutritious meals, daily human contact, and supportive services to prevent their premature institutionalization.
We deliver healthy delicious meals to our home-bound neighbors. With a vision of creating a more interconnected resilient and compassionate community our program supports entire family systems. In 2024 236 volunteers delivered 55,642 meals…
To serve the special operations community, families, and k-9 military dogs, as well as law enforcement and contract working dogs. when possible, these canines are placed in forever homes.
No senior should go hungry. nutritious meals, which are delivered by caring volunteers, improve the health and well-being of people who are homebound, elderly, or disabled and help them remain in their homes and maintain their independence.
Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.
To provide quality trained assistance dogs for mobility-challenged individuals, hearing-impaired individuals and veterans with combat related ptsd.
Combat veteran-founded and operated Semper K9s mission is to enhance the quality of life for wounded members of the U.S. Armed Forces and their families by providing them with custom-trained mental health mobility service dogs. Using…
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 37 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 KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds Smoky Mountain Service Dogs ↗
- Who funds TIMELESS TELLICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS WESTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds LOUDON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL LIBERTY SHIP MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TELLICO VILLAGE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds TELLICO BOATERS ASSITANCE RESPONSE TEAM 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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Diersch Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Diersch Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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