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Esme 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $152k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 1ST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $45,000 |
| MUSTARD SEED RANCH | $30,700 |
| SMILES OF HOPE | $25,000 |
| HOPE HOUSE OF TENNESSEE | $20,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $11,000 |
| CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER | $10,700 |
| INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION | $10,000 |
| WESTMINISTER HOME CONNECTION | $5,000 |
| HEART OF THE CUMBERLAND | $5,000 |
| COOKEVILLE RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| HOPE 27 | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SILOAM HEALTH | $4,000 |
| GENESIS HOUSE | $3,500 |
| HOPE CENTER ADOPTION | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $143k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
16 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- MSMUSTARD SEED RANCH6× · 2020–2025 · $132k · revenue +45%
- SOSMILES OF HOPE6× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +162% · 26% of their budget
- IJINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION5× · 2020–2025 · $105k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- LCLIFE CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $25k
- FNFELLOWSHIP NASHVILLEone grant, 2021 · $25k
- PGPOPLAR GROVE BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
To meet the special needs of each child and family served in order to help improve their quality of life. the board of trustees and staff members of the home are committed to bringing the highest quality resources available to the…
Methodist childrens homes seeks to bring restoration to children and youth who have been neglected or abused. by the end of their time with us, we hope to see that they find reconciliation with their biological families, love within an…
Our Mission at Welcome House Knoxville is to share the love of Jesus through the ministries of hospitality and friendship. We provide safe and loving homes for individuals and families in transition to permanent housing.
Our mission is to show the love of christ to each and every child and family towhom we serve and beyond. we do this by creating a culture where the needs of children,families, and staff are seen and met in creative and innovative ways.
Collins family ministries, inc. exists to embody the love of christ by providing compassion to families, children, and at-risk youth who are experiencing hardship. we provide shelter for children, strength to families, and stability to our…
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.
Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
Our purpose is to provide a safe, loving, Christian environment for children needing long-term care who lack a stable home environment due to circumstances beyond their control. We are committed to equipping each child to build meaningful…
Camerons House of Hope stands as a beacon of support and stability for children impacted by parental substance use disorder. We work alongside our families by offering academic intervention, individual child and family counseling sessions…
House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…
Mission: homes for hope partners with the building industry to invest in underserved families around the world for their holistic flourishing unto the glory of god. method: building industry partners donate funds generated from domestic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Westminster Home Connection and the most unlike its peers is Community Academy. 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 Hope House of Tennessee Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED RANCH ↗
- Who funds SMILES OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Nashville Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds SILOAM HEALTH ↗
- Who funds TANZANIA WESLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds KKUMI PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER HOME CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds Heart of the Cumberland Inc ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds UPPER CUMBERLAND CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Genesis House Inc ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Magnolia Foundation ↗
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: Owen Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Esme 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.
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.
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