· Private foundation
Gerald W & Mary a Phillips Family Charitable 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 $10k18 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH LENIOR CITY | $20,000 |
| WEARS VALLEY RANCH | $10,000 |
| CASA OF TENNESSEE VALLEY | $6,299 |
| BRIGHTSTONE | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION | $1,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $1,000 |
| VFW | $1,000 |
| MTSU FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| JONI AND FRIENDS- KNOXVILLE | $1,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $1,000 |
| SAMARITAN PURSE | $1,000 |
| ASTRODINARY DOBBS FOUNDATION | $525 |
| EAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $100 |
| THE CHROMOSOME EIGHTEEN REGISTRY | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 13 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WVWEARS VALLEY RANCH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +39%
- BIBRIGHTSTONE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $44k · revenue +171%
- WCWILLIAMSON COUNTY CASA INC6× · 2017–2023 · $27k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- CICASA INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +21%
- CUCHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $5k
- DWDESTINY WORSHIP CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $4k
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.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…
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…
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
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.
The mission is to serve children who are victims of sexual and severe physical abuse through prevention, education, and intervention.
At levis legacy, our mission is clear to serve and support families facing the daunting reality of chds, along with the dedicated medical professionals who stand by their side. our mission is not just to weather the storm with them but to…
The mission of the nashville children's alliance is healing and justice for children who have been abused or exposed to violence.
The mission of childrens center is to support and medically assess children who are suspected victims of abuse or neglect.
Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 57 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 WEARS VALLEY RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSON COUNTY CASA INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSON COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds CASA INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH HOPES INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PS I Love You Foundation ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HENRYS FORK FOUNDATION 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: Hca Healthcare Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Pam Lewis Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Gibson Gives Foundation Dba Gibson Gives · Servant Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gerald W & Mary a Phillips Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gerald W & Mary a Phillips Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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