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Don & Roy Splawn Charitable Foundation East Inc at a glance

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Don & Roy Splawn Charitable Foundation East Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$123k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$248kEducation$218kEmployment$51kEnvironment$50kPhilanthropy$25kCommunity Improvement$17kYouth Development$15kInternational$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
$7,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW BALLET ENSEMBLE AND SCHOOL$35,000
JOBS FOR TENNESSEE GRADUATES$25,000
FRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE$25,000
FACING HISTORY SCHOOL$10,000
BLESS THE CHILDREN$10,000
FAMILY FOUNDATION$7,000
JUDGE DINKINS EDUCATION CENTER$5,000
KIPP ACADEMY$2,500
RAMSEY'S REACH$2,000
HILLSBORO HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL$1,000
TSU ATHLETIC FUND$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JOBS FOR TENNESSEE GRADUATES: $25k → 14%JOBS FOR TENNESSEE GRADUATES: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$604k · 17 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
11

Total granted

$604k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
0%

Still filing today

53%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +623%
  • JF
    JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES TENNESSEE
    2× · 2019–2024 · $45k · revenue +231%
  • TF
    The Family Foundation of Virginia
    6× · 2019–2024 · $40k · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • SM
    SLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -8%
  • WR
    WILLIAM R MOORE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +54%
  • TA
    THE ART OF FAMILY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Jobs for Mississippi Graduates Inc

Jmg's mission is to keep young people in school through graduation and provide work-based learning experiences that will lead to career advancement opportunities or to enroll in a postsecondary institution that leads to a rewarding career.

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2
Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville Inc

Arts & business council of greater nashville supports and promotes the arts by driving collaboration between arts and business that contribute to the creativity, vitality, and prosperity of greater nashville/the regions/the city.

Crime & Legal
3
Jobs for Kentucky's Graduates Inc

To assist at risk students to graduate from high school and successfully transition to work or further education.

Education
4
Memphis Academy of Science and Engineeri

To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community

Education
5
Tennesseans for Quality Early Education

To advance state policies and practices that ensure all tennessee children from birth through 3rd grade get the high quality early education they need to power our state's future.

Education
6
Harding Academy of Memphis Inc

Harding academy of memphis, inc. is a private school providing education from pre kindergarten through grade twelve.

Education
7
Leadership Tennessee Inc

Leadership tennessee fosters collaborative, non-partisan dialogue on issues of state importance, by connecting and deploying a network of diverse leaders and engaged citizens.

Public Benefit
8
Mayor's Institute for Excellence in Government Inc

Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee

Public Benefit
9
Nashville Fellows Program Inc

Provide support for under-served youth

Religion
10
Girls Write Nashville

Girls write nashville empowers expression through songwriting, production, mentorship and creative community for teen artists. we are an artist and educator-led 501(c)(3) creative youth development program in nashville, tn allied with…

Arts & Culture
11
Theatre Memphis

To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
12
Kings Academy Nashville

King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Slingshot Memphis Inc; the most unlike its peers is Guitars 4 Gifts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INC: $220,000 · Arts & CultureNEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INC+2 more: $7,500 · Arts & CultureIN FULL MOTION INC: $155,000 · EducationIN FULL MOTION INCThe Family Foundation of Virginia: $39,500 · EducationThe Family Foundation of VirginiaLAUSANNE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $13,500 · EducationLAUSANNE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL+1 more: $5,000 · EducationFACING HISTORY SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherFACING HISTORY S…BLESS THE CHILDREN: $17,000 · OtherBLESS THE CHILDR…KIPP ACADEMY: $10,000 · OtherKIPP ACADEMYMANHOOD 101 INC: $5,500 · OtherMANHOOD 101 INCTSU ATHLETIC FUND: $5,500 · OtherTSU ATHLETIC FUN…HILLSBORO HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: $5,200 · OtherTHE ART OF FAMILY INC: $5,000 · OtherJUDGE DINKINS EDUCATION CENTER: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherMONOGRAM LOVES KIDS FDN: $5,000 · OtherPROMISE FOR HAITI INC: $4,500 · Other+8 more: $13,500 · Other+8 moreFRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE: $50,000 · EnvironmentJOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES TENNESSEE: $45,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC: $25,100 · PhilanthropySLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyRENEWAL HOUSE INC: $5,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$227,500Education$213,000Other$101,200Environment$50,000Human Services$45,000Philanthropy$35,100Health$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INC: $220,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetIN FULL MOTION INC: $155,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetFRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE: $50,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetJOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES TENNESSEE: $45,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetThe Family Foundation of Virginia: $39,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC: $25,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAUSANNE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWILLIAM R MOORE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRENEWAL HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROMISE FOR HAITI INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBORDERLESS ARTS OF TENNESSEE: $3,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetRESILIENCE EDUCATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBig Green: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 NEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds IN FULL MOTION INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE ↗
  • Who funds JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds The Family Foundation of Virginia ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ↗
  • Who funds LAUSANNE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM R MOORE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds THE ART OF FAMILY INC ↗
  • Who funds RENEWAL HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds PROMISE FOR HAITI INC ↗
  • Who funds GUITARS 4 GIFTS ↗
  • Who funds BORDERLESS ARTS OF TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds RESILIENCE EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds Big Green ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Christian Community F…The Community Foundat…Thomas W Briggs Found…Hca Healthcare Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis IncTN16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Don & Roy Splawn Charitable Foundation East Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Don & Roy Splawn Charitable Foundation East Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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