· Private foundation
Don & Roy Splawn Charitable Foundation East Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW BALLET ENSEMBLE AND SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| FRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE | $25,000 |
| JOBS FOR TENNESSEE GRADUATES | $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 |
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.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FOFRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +623%
- JFJOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES TENNESSEE2× · 2019–2024 · $45k · revenue +231%
- TFThe Family Foundation of Virginia6× · 2019–2024 · $40k · revenue +117%
Funded once
- SMSLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -8%
- WRWILLIAM R MOORE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +54%
- TATHE ART OF FAMILY INCone grant, 2019 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
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.
To assist at risk students to graduate from high school and successfully transition to work or further education.
To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community
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.
Harding academy of memphis, inc. is a private school providing education from pre kindergarten through grade twelve.
Leadership tennessee fosters collaborative, non-partisan dialogue on issues of state importance, by connecting and deploying a network of diverse leaders and engaged citizens.
Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee
Provide support for under-served youth
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…
To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Slingshot Memphis Inc and 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.
17 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. 17 of the 31 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
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 Don & Roy Splawn Charitable Foundation East Inc 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.
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.