· Private foundation
Hollingsworth Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JR ACHIEVEMENT OF EAST TN | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| ANDERSON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $4,000 |
| OASIS OF LOVE MINISTRIES INC | $1,000 |
| YOUNG-WILLIAMS ANIMAL CENTER | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- AFASPIRE FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2023 · $6.4M · revenue +2%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL3× · 2017–2019 · $45k · revenue +56%
- YAYOUNG-WILLIAMS ANIMAL CENTER OF EAST TEN6× · 2019–2024 · $4k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- KZKNOXVILLE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +27%
- PFPEARL FOUNDATION GREATER CLINTONone grant, 2021 · $20k
- ETEAST TN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCYone grant, 2019 · $10k
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 mission of the Tennessee Aquarium is to connect people with nature and empower them to make informed decisions about water and wildlife.
In fulfillment of our mission to inspire a culture of understanding and discovery of our natural world through conservation, innovation and leadership, our goal is to build a first class zoo for middle tennessee and to develop a facility…
To inspire and empower all children through transformative learning experiences. our vision is to make our community the best place for all to learn through the power of play.
The purpose of the knoxville museum of art is to support and promote public interest, awareness, knowledge and education in the visual arts in east tennessee . to this end, the corporation shall, among other things, develop permanent…
To support education, health and access programs that preserve, protect, and enhance Tennessee's natural areas and parks system.
Knoxville botanical gardens and arboretum provides and maintains gardens for the benefit and enjoyment of the general public.
To present and promote the historical aspect of the local river from pre-history until the present day
Education
To administer funds for the use and benefit of the tennessee wildlife federation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tennessee 4-H Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aspire Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 25 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 ASPIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds OASIS OF LOVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG-WILLIAMS ANIMAL CENTER OF EAST TEN ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE 4-H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF APPALACHIA ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Haslam Family Foundation Inc · The Clayton Family Foundation · The Boyd Foundation · Food City Charitable Foundation · Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc · Battelle Memorial Institute · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Hollingsworth Foundation Inc 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.
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