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Farrow 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.

$26k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$50kArts & Culture$34kHuman Services$30kEducation$20kYouth Development$8kCommunity Improvement$5kHealth$3kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$474k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCENIC CITY WOMEN'S NETWORK$10,000
TWO BIKES CHATTANOOGA$4,000
COLLEGEDALE SDA CHURCH$2,500
BEAUMONT SDA CHURCH$2,500
NATIONAL PARK PARTNERS$2,500
SOUTHERN ADVENTIST UNIVERISITY$1,500
NATIONAL PARK CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION$1,000
CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP$1,000
COLLEGEDALE ACADEMY$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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%NICA MINISTRIES: $5k → 12%SCENIC CITY WOMEN'S NETWORK: $10k → 12%SCENIC CITY WOMEN'S NETWORK: $10k → 12%SCENIC CITY WOMEN'S NETWORK: $5k → 12%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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$111k · 10 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
14

Total granted

$111k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+132%

Still filing today

60%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionSocial SciencePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SC
    SCENIC CITY WOMEN'S NETWORK
    3× · 2022–2025 · $25k · revenue +14%
  • TS
    THE SAMARITAN CENTER INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +11%
  • BF
    BLUEPRINT FOR MEN INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • DS
    DUNLAP SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • NM
    NICA MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -46%
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
Nashville Public Media Inc

Nashville banner is a locally owned, community supported, civic news organization. we exist to empower the people of nashville to make informed decisions by providing non-partisan journalism from an independent, nonprofit newsroom. we are…

Arts & Culture
2
Tennessee State Parks Conservancy

To support education, health and access programs that preserve, protect, and enhance Tennessee's natural areas and parks system.

Environment
3
Volunteer East Tennessee

Volunteer East Tennessee inspires service by equipping organizations and mobilizing volunteers to connect with one another and strengthen communities.

—
4
Cumberland Trails Conference

Our mission is to provide financial and volunteer assistance with land acquisition, design, construction, and maintenance of the Cumberland Trail in Tennessee; to serve as an advocate for the Cumberland Trail and the regions bounding it in…

Recreation & Sports
5
Tennessee Clean Water Network

To identify, prevent, and remedy water pollution statewide through a network of allies and resources.

—
6
Tennessee Chapter National Electrical Contractors Association Inc

The mission of neca is to lead the electrical industry by example and to exemplify the highest levels of quality, skill, competence, value, and integrity.

—
7
Imagine Tennessee Better Inc

Social Welfare

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8
Southeast Tn Rc&D Council

Plan and develop resource conservation and development programs

Environment
9
Chattanooga Technology Council Inc

Our mission is to connect chattanooga's technology sector to drive regional economic growth.

Community Improvement
10
The Chamber of Commerce

To promote business, enhance economic and community development, and serve as a catalyst for improving the overall quality of life in the community and region.

—
11
Christ Led Communities Inc Formerly Christian Leadership Concepts

To equip men to initiate and lead for christ in their homes, churches, communities and the marketplace.

—
12
Friends of the Cherokee National Forest

To conserve, protect, and promote the outstanding natural beauty and ecological vitality of the Cherokee National Forest for current and future generations through strong partnerships with the Cherokee National Forest, volunteers, donors,…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Artsbuild; the most unlike its peers is Blueprint for Men Inc. 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

14 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. 14 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

J-103 J-FEST: $15,000 · OtherJ-103 J-FESTSOUTHERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY: $13,750 · OtherSOUTHERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITYDUNLAP SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST SCHOOL: $7,500 · OtherDUNLAP SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST SCHOOLBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC: $7,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INCIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGREATER COLLEGEDALE SCHOOL SYSTEM: $3,200 · OtherADVENTHEALTH GORDON FOUNDATION: $3,000 · OtherCOLLEGEDALE SDA CHURCH: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · Other+8 more: $14,400 · Other+8 moreSCENIC CITY WOMEN'S NETWORK: $25,000 · Human ServicesSCENIC CITY WOMEN'S …NICA MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesNICA MINISTRIES INCTHE SAMARITAN CENTER INC: $20,000 · ReligionTHE SAMARITAN CENTER…BLUEPRINT FOR MEN INC: $10,000 · ReligionBLUEPRINT FOR MEN IN…FRIENDS OF THE CHICKAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL MILITARY PARK: $8,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF …EAST TENNESSEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $6,000 · Arts & CultureEAST TENNES…ARTSBUILD: $2,000 · Arts & CultureARTSBUILDCOLLEGEDALE TOMORROW FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementTwo Bikes Chattanooga: $4,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL INC: $2,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$80,350Human Services$30,000Religion$30,000Arts & Culture$16,500Community Improvement$5,000Education$4,000Recreation & Sports$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSCENIC CITY WOMEN'S NETWORK: $25,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetTHE SAMARITAN CENTER INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBLUEPRINT FOR MEN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHICKAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL MILITARY PARK: $8,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $6,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetNICA MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCOLLEGEDALE TOMORROW FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMORNING POINTE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetUnited Way of Gordon County Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARTSBUILD: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $1,000 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.

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.

Chattanooga Christian…The Community Foundat…Hamico IncBenwood Foundation IncDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Chattanooga Christian Community FoundationTN19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Hamico Inc · Benwood Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Farrow Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Farrow Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%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 · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Farrow Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Farrow Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 28 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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