· Private foundation
Fidelis 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $143k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $100,000 |
| UPWARD COMMUNITY SERVICES | $32,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE MEDICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| ST TAMMANY HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| ACADEMY OF SACRED HEART | $10,000 |
| WEBB SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE | $10,000 |
| NEW LIFE GATHERING | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FAITH BIBLE CHURCH | $7,500 |
| LOUISIANA BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - GREAT SMOKEY MOUNTAIN COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| COVINGTON ROTARY CLUB | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 18% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 28% of Fidelis Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 58% of the giving stays in LA; by stated purpose, 51%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UHUNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC5× · 2021–2025 · $195k · revenue +32%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc3× · 2021–2023 · $45k · revenue +33%
- WSWEBB SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- SOSOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS IN LOUISIANAone grant, 2024 · $25k
- CBCOMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH OF LAFOURCHE INCone grant, 2021 · $25k
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
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.
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.
East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…
Baptist memorial hospital-desoto, inc. provides quality medical health care regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, or age. its mission is to serve the community with respect to providing health care services and health…
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…
Mission novant health exists to improve the health of our communities, one person at a time. vision we, the novant health team, will deliver the most remarkable patient experience, in every dimension, every time. values -compassion: we…
Fort Sanders Regional 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 a patient's ability to pay.
Fort Loudoun 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 a patient's ability to pay.
To provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a spiritual environment of caring in association with internationally recognized teaching and research.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
Baptist memorial hospital provides quality medical health care regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, or age.
In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…
Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Association 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.
University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 32 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds UPWARD COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WEBB SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE ↗
- Who funds GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN COUNCIL 557 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TRUST ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds KNOX AREA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Nakanawa ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDS EMERGENCY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME AND FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds NORTHLAKE CRISIS PREGNANCY CTR INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fidelis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fidelis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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