Tennessee · Private foundation
Graham Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $110k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 40 to 54
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $190k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Graham Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 38 | $110k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $378k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $324k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $413k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 47 | $258k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 54 | $268k | 41% |
| FY2019 | 49 | $251k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 47 | $254k | 36% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Providence Church | $585,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $480,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Emerald Youth Foundation | $285,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Knox Area Rescue Ministries Inc | $66,350 | 8 | 0% |
| Forever Families Inc | $55,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Holston Home for Children Inc | $55,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Gideons International | $45,100 | 9 | n/a |
| Street Hope Tn | $45,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Mane Support Inc | $45,000 | 9 | 8% |
| Central Missionary Clearinghouse Inc | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 59 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 75 recipients with no EIN on record ($537k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Graham Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 44 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Graham Foundation
- How much does Graham Foundation give?
- Graham Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $109,604 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 54 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Graham Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (37%), Recreation & Sports (24%), Youth Development (17%).
- Who are Graham Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Providence Church ($585k), Fellowship of Christian Athletes ($480k), Emerald Youth Foundation ($285k).
- Does Graham Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Graham Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Graham Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Tennessee Foundation, Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc, Haslam Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Graham Foundation based?
- Graham Foundation is based in TN.
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