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Fugitive Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$282k
Granted FY2024still arriving
57
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$533kHealth$413kReligion$362kArts & Culture$299kHousing & Shelter$96kHuman Services$91kEnvironment$75kCrime & Legal$53kOther$0
02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k48 grants · $122k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $159k
$2,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE$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
CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN & MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ALIVE HOSPICE: $2k → 14%ROOFTOP FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $1k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
WI
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
MO
KY
VA
DE
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
MS
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 67 repeat orgs$92k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
17

Total granted

$2.0M
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+16%

Still filing today

66%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureReligionInternationalCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SH
    SILOAM HEALTH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $382k · revenue +47%
  • TC
    THE CONTRIBUTOR INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $147k · revenue +432%
  • MB
    MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $97k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • NA
    NASHVILLE AREA RED CROSS
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • HH
    HILLWOOD HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTHgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +44%
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
Union University

Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education
2
Kings Academy Nashville

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.

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Regent University

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.

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5
Belhaven University

Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.

Education
6
Lehigh University

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…

Education
7
Thomas Jefferson School of Law

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…

Education
8
Furman University

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.

Education
9
Barton College

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…

Education
10
Greensboro College

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.

Education
11
Evangel University

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.

Education
12
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 95 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/61
Grantees still filing
46/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SILOAM HEALTH: $382,450 · OtherSILOAM HEALTHDOWNTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $224,500 · OtherDOWNTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE: $94,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE+55 more: $444,150 · Other+55 moreTHE CONTRIBUTOR INC: $147,000 · EducationTHE CONTRIBUTOR INCMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE: $97,000 · EducationMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF …TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYCURREY INGRAM ACADEMY: $50,000 · EducationCURREY INGRAM ACADEMYTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL: $49,500 · EducationTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL+12 more: $65,950 · Education+12 moreBELCOURT THEATRE INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureBELCOURT THE…Nashville Symphony Association: $43,000 · Arts & CultureNashville Sy…FRIENDS OF KELLYTOWN INC DBA FRIENDS OF AAITTAFAMA' ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK: $31,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF K…NASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO: $25,650 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE PU…SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $25,500 · Arts & CultureSOLOMON R GU…CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCHEEKWOOD BO…SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureGRUNDY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $9,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $4,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC: $57,000 · EnvironmentTENNESSEANS FOR ALTERNATIVES TO THE DEATH PENALTY: $49,500 · Civil Rights+1 more: $1,700 · Civil RightsInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $31,500 · ReligionNASHVILLE FELLOWS PROGRAM INC: $7,000 · ReligionBARNABAS INTERNATIONAL: $6,000 · ReligionTHE WITNESS INC: $2,000 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP COALITION: $2,000 · ReligionTHE MENDENHALL MINISTRIES: $2,000 · ReligionBLUE MONARCH: $29,000 · Employment
Other$1,145,600Education$489,450Arts & Culture$228,150Environment$57,000Civil Rights$51,200Religion$50,500Employment$29,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSILOAM HEALTH: $382,450 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CONTRIBUTOR INC: $147,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE: $97,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE: $94,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBELCOURT THEATRE INC: $60,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC: $57,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCURREY INGRAM ACADEMY: $50,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTENNESSEANS FOR ALTERNATIVES TO THE DEATH PENALTY: $49,500 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL: $49,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNashville Symphony Association: $43,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $31,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF KELLYTOWN INC DBA FRIENDS OF AAITTAFAMA' ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK: $31,000 over 5y, 100% of budgetBLUE MONARCH: $29,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO: $25,650 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $25,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetManna Mission Inc: $19,500 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetVanderbilt University: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY dba AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE: $12,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetREGENT COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRAPHAH INSTITUTE: $9,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $9,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGRUNDY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $9,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetTENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $7,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MCCALLIE SCHOOL: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE FELLOWS PROGRAM INC: $7,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetBARNABAS INTERNATIONAL: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN TABLE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT BERNARD ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOLBON INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH FELLOWSHIP INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChoosing Justice Initiative: $3,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetALIVE HOSPICE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY FORUM INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WITNESS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPPORTUNITY IN OVERALLS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBAREFOOT REPUBLIC INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP COALITION: $2,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $2,000 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.

  • 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 REGENT COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC ↗
  • Who funds RAPHAH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds GRUNDY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Memorial Foundation I…The Frist FoundationJames R Meadows Jr Fo…The Wade-Buntin Famil…The Steven & Laurie E…Hca Healthcare Founda…Msb Cockayne Fund IncThe Blum Family Found…Joe C Davis FoundationDorothy Cate and Thom…Shayne Foundation
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN41.5× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Open Table Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 95 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home