· Private foundation
Graham Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $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 |
| Scott Dawson Evangelistic Assoc | $5,000 |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $5,000 |
| One Vision International | $5,000 |
| Mane Support | $5,000 |
| The Gideons International | $5,000 |
| West Knox County Little League | $5,000 |
| Holston United Methodist Home 4 Chi | $5,000 |
| Black Oak Heights Baptist Church | $3,000 |
| St Jude's Children's Research Hospi | $2,500 |
| Hope Resource Center | $2,500 |
| SEED International | $2,500 |
| National Center of Fathering | $2,500 |
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, $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 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 +42% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- ABArlington Baptist Churchone grant, 2022 · $10k
- KAKNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATEDone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +19%
- FAFoundation Academyone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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…
How this is measured
49 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. 49 of the 134 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 FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KNOX AREA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FOREVER FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN 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 KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WEARS VALLEY RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Graham Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Graham Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
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