· Private foundation
Hearts of the South Family 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 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RECOVERY COMMUNITY INC | $5,000 |
| GOODPASTURE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $4,500 |
| THE KING'S DAUGHTERS CHILD DEV CTR | $3,000 |
| MARCH OF DIMES | $2,500 |
| CHRISTIAN COOPERATIVE MINISTRY | $2,000 |
| MATTHEW WALKER COMP HEALTH CTR INC | $1,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ALIVE HOSPICE | $1,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $1,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $1,000 |
| ISAIAH 117 HOUSE | $600 |
| CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP | $500 |
| DECISIONS CHOICES & OPTIONS | $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, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- RCRECOVERY COMMUNITY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +284%
- CCCHRISTIAN COOPERATIVE MINISTRY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +26%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- ACALABAMA CHILDREN'S HOMEone grant, 2017 · $2k
- CCCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS INCone grant, 2017 · $2k
- MCMONROE CARELL JR CHILDREN'S HOSPITone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
Cumberland 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 the patient's ability to pay.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
The mission of worship 24/7 is to ignite a passion for god through worship that results in a life of generosity, discipleship, evangelism, generosity and service.
East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…
Dedicated to igniting personal transformation by affirming faith, inspiring hope, and equipping individuals, to live an intentional life in christ.
Roane County 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.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
Methodist 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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alive Hospice Inc and the most unlike its peers is Decisions Choices and Options Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 34 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 RECOVERY COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COOPERATIVE MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REST STOP MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DECISIONS CHOICES AND OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds K-LOVE & AIR1 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Hearts of the South Family 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.
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.