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Graham Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Knox Area Rescue Ministries | $15,000 |
| Forever Families Inc | $15,000 |
| Carter High Football Booster Club | $10,000 |
| One Vision International | $5,000 |
| Mane Support | $5,000 |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $5,000 |
| West Knox County Little League | $5,000 |
| Scott Dawson Evangelistic Assoc | $5,000 |
| The Gideons International | $5,000 |
| Holston United Methodist Home 4 Chi | $5,000 |
| Black Oak Heights Baptist Church | $3,000 |
| National Center of Fathering | $2,500 |
| SEED International | $2,500 |
| Hope Resource Center | $2,500 |
| Salvation Army | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $28k) 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 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.
70 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 7 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES9× · 2017–2025 · $480k · revenue +120%
- EYEMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $285k · revenue +31%
- KAKNOX AREA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $66k · revenue +172%
Funded once
- WVWEARS VALLEY RANCH INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +120%
- ABArlington Baptist Churchone grant, 2022 · $10k
- KAKNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATEDone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +19%
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.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.
The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…
Christian mission offering hope to the forgotten children of africa and training leaders and teachers for african children.
Heaven's family's mission is to advance the kingdom of the lord jesus christ. we do that by strategically linking kingdom needs and opportunities with resources that the lord has entrusted to those who love him. through god-given…
Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
The victory television network (vtn) is a network of full-powered, commerical tv stations in arkansas, including kvtn-dt in little rock/pinebluff, kvth-dt in hot springs and kvtj-dt in jonesboro. founded by pastors h. l. and jeanne…
Thompson Cancer Survival Center provides support services for cancer patients, 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…
Ted Shuttlesworth Evangelistic Association spreads the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ through teaching and the ministry of the gifts of the Holy Spirit including healing and deliverance.
Our ultimate mission at the porch is clear and simple: to raise up mighty sons of god who will carry the authority of the kingdom of heaven, and make jesus known in the earth. we desire to raise up men of god who will love his truth with…
The organization seeks to provide the highest quality of care in ministry to the diverse needs of louisiana's children and families by offering a variety of holistic services which promote personal growth and wholesome family life. the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Knox Area Rescue Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Wordplayers. 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 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 134 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 FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KNOX AREA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds FOREVER FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds STREET HOPE TN ↗
- Who funds MANE SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds Central Missionary Clearinghouse Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Scott Dawson Evangelistic Association ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SERTOMA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WEARS VALLEY RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TEAM BRITTON ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR BETTER NONPROFITS ↗
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: East Tennessee Foundation · Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · Gene & Florence Monday Foundation Inc · Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee · The Clayton Homes Foundation · Jane L Pettway Foundation · Lawson Family Foundation · Bill and Crissy Haslam Foundation · The Clayton Family Foundation · Thompson Charitable Foundation · The Melrose 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 Graham 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.