· Private foundation
Fugitive Foundation
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 $10k48 grants · $122k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $159k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOWNTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $30,000 |
| YMCA | $28,500 |
| THE CONTRIBUTOR | $27,000 |
| SILOAM FAMILY HEALTH CENTER | $20,650 |
| BELMONT UNIVERSITY - THOMAS F FRIST JR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $12,000 |
| MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY | $11,000 |
| BELCOURT THEATRE | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| SOUTH UNION SHAKER VILLAGE | $9,000 |
| SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION | $8,500 |
| MANNA MISSION INC | $7,500 |
| SAINT BARTHOLOMEW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $7,000 |
| TENNESSEANS FOR ALTERNATIVES TO THE DEATH PENALTY | $7,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 10 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- SHSILOAM HEALTH8× · 2017–2024 · $382k · revenue +47%
- TCTHE CONTRIBUTOR INC6× · 2019–2024 · $147k · revenue +432%
- MBMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE8× · 2017–2024 · $97k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- NANASHVILLE AREA RED CROSSone grant, 2017 · $10k
- ININTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF STREET PAPERSone grant, 2017 · $5k
- TNTHE NAVIGATORSone grant, 2017 · $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.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Manna Mission Inc. 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 39 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 95 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 SILOAM HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE CONTRIBUTOR INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BELCOURT THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds CURREY INGRAM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEANS FOR ALTERNATIVES TO THE DEATH PENALTY ↗
- Who funds THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Nashville Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KELLYTOWN INC DBA FRIENDS OF AAITTAFAMA' ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK ↗
- Who funds BLUE MONARCH ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Manna Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY dba AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds REGENT COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAPHAH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds GRUNDY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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 · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Frist Foundation · James R Meadows Jr Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc · The Blum Family Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Shayne 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 Fugitive 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Open Table Inc — 7% of income from government
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.