Tennessee · Private foundation
Houghland 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.
- $321k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 60
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Houghland Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 35 | $321k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $321k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 60 | $382k | 2% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $376k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 59 | $372k | 2% |
| FY2020 | 60 | $376k | 2% |
| FY2019 | 59 | $371k | 3% |
| FY2018 | 57 | $361k | 4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Volunteer State Horsemen's Foundation | $315,000 | 9 | 2% |
| First Presbyterian Church | $180,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Alive Hospice Inc | $135,000 | 9 | 0% |
| St Paul Christian Academy | $125,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Hands on Nashville Inc | $90,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Saint Thomas Health Foundations | $70,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Nashville Humane Association Aka Nashville Humane Society | $63,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $53,000 | 9 | 0% |
| United Way of Williamson County | $49,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Churches of Christ Disaster Relief Effort Inc | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Houghland Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Tennessee Titans Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Patricia and Rodes Hart Foundation · The Danner Foundation · Louise B Wallace Foundation 19702 · T & T Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Houghland Foundation
- How much does Houghland Foundation give?
- Houghland Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $321,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 60 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Houghland Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (15%), Recreation & Sports (14%), Health (12%).
- Who are Houghland Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Volunteer State Horsemen's Foundation ($315k), First Presbyterian Church ($180k), Alive Hospice Inc ($135k).
- Does Houghland Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Houghland Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Houghland Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Hca Healthcare Foundation, Tennessee Titans Foundation.
- Where is Houghland Foundation based?
- Houghland Foundation is based in TN.
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