· Private foundation
Ezell Foundation 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $286k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $256k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INNER CITY MINISTRY | $80,000 |
| LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY | $67,000 |
| ZAMBIA MISSIONS | $58,000 |
| TN PRISON OUTREACH MINISTRY | $51,000 |
| AGAPE | $37,500 |
| BILL DANCE FAMILY AND FRIENDS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE BRANCH | $25,000 |
| CALEB COMPANY | $17,000 |
| YOUTH ENCOURAGEMENT SERVICES | $15,000 |
| AFRICAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $15,000 |
| LAKESHORE ESTATES | $15,000 |
| FAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER | $15,000 |
| EZELL HARDING CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $11,800 |
| OPERATION ANDREW | $10,000 |
| ROCKETOWN | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% 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.
54 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 4 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
- LULIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $993k · revenue +44%
- CECHRISTIAN EDUCATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $278k · revenue +99%
- TPTENNESSEE PRISON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $231k · revenue +368%
Funded once
- UCUNA CHURCH OF CHRISTone grant, 2017 · $300k
- RMRESPIRE MINISTRIESone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue -34%
- HCHY-LAKE CHRISTIAN CAMPone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
By creating a safe and structured two year residential program the Hope House of Tennessee will aim to equip and empower personal and educational growth economic self-sufficiency and a deeper understanding of Christs unconditional love.
Nashville inner city ministry is a christ-centered community organization dedicated to empowering the spiritual, educational and vocational development of at-risk youth and their families.
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.
The journey home is a christian ministry whose primary focus is to serve the homeless and disadvantaged of rutherford county, tn. providing practical resources and relationships that encourage faith, economic stability, wholeness, and…
Rahab House is deeply committed to the rescue, refuge, and restoration of human trafficking survivors. We provide comprehensive support that encompasses immediate safety and connections to long-term restorative care in alignment with the…
To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
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.
Training youth to be evangelists and missionaries in america and other countries using classroom and field activities
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
The Home was organized to provide for the health, welfare and benefit of children whose parents or guardians are unable to care for them. The Home offers residential care and onsite academic
Christ-centered school educating children of diverse racial & socioeconomic backgrounds by establishing a biblical worldview & preparing each child to flourish academically, emotionally, socially & spiritually.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Hacienda of Hope 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
54 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. 54 of the 104 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 LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE PRISON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ENCOURAGEMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE ESTATES INC ↗
- Who funds JUVENTUD EN CAMINO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKETOWN OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds HEALING HANDS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds RESPIRE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FRESH APPROACH MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION ANDREW GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds CALEB GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds The Pearl House Inc ↗
- Who funds ENCOURAGEMENT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE STORE INC ↗
- Who funds STARS INC ↗
- Who funds MORNING STAR SANCTUARY INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Washington Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Stephens' Christian Trust · Servant Foundation · The Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Purity Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · The Harrison-Robbie Dearing 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 Ezell Foundation 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.
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