· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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 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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 25 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hollingsworth Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hollingsworth Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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