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Jeanette Travis Foundation at a glance

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Jeanette Travis Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$285k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$4.8MArts & Culture$1.1MYouth Development$985kHuman Services$900kReligion$882kFood & Nutrition$190kHousing & Shelter$186kHealth$115kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k6 grants · $725k
  • $250k+1 grant · $285k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF MOSHI$285,000
SAINT THOMAS FOUNDATION$200,000
CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY$200,000
THISTLE FARMS INC$100,000
NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION$100,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - CABIN$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOPE PANHANDLE: $50k → 11%CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY: $200k → 7%EAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $90k → 12%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - STEM PROGRAM: $95k → 14%MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE: $600k → 16%CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY: $200k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION: $500k → 12%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - CABIN: $80k → 14%MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE: $600k → 16%CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY: $200k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION: $500k → 12%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - CABIN: $80k → 14%MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE: $500k → 16%CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY: $50k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - CABIN: $80k → 14%MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE: $450k → 16%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - CABIN: $80k → 14%MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE: $200k → 16%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - CABIN: $80k → 14%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - CABIN: $75k → 14%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - STEM PROGRAM: $65k → 14%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - STEM PROGRAM: $65k → 14%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - STEM PROGRAM: $65k → 14%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - STEM PROGRAM: $55k → 14%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - STEM PROGRAM: $55k → 14%BELMONT UNIVERSITY: $500k → 14%BELMONT UNIVERSITY: $170k → 14%SAINT THOMAS FOUNDATION: $200k → 14%SAINT THOMAS FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%SAINT THOMAS FOUNDATION: $82k → 14%THISTLE FARMS INC: $150k → 14%THISTLE FARMS INC: $100k → 14%THISTLE FARMS INC: $100k → 14%THISTLE FARMS INC: $100k → 14%THISTLE FARMS INC: $100k → 14%THISTLE FARMS INC: $100k → 14%THISTLE FARMS INC: $100k → 14%THISTLE FARMS INC: $100k → 14%NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION: $200k → 14%NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION: $165k → 14%NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION: $150k → 14%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $150k → 14%NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION: $140k → 14%NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION: $100k → 14%NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION: $100k → 14%NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION: $100k → 14%NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION: $100k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.0M · 15 repeat orgs$180k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +86% since the first grant, against +48% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
4

Total granted

$9.0M
$180k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+86%
+48%

Still filing today

60%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NP
    NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +24%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +53%
  • TF
    THISTLE FARMS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $850k · revenue +186%

Funded once

  • ET
    EAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $90k · revenue +58%
  • HP
    Hope Panhandle Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • CH
    CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +48%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Mend House Sober Living Community

The Mend House is a sober living community for men, in Knoxville, Tn. which empowers them to gain control over their actions, decisions and choices. The Mend House allows men to enjoy clean, sober and stable housing for up to 2 years while…

Health
2
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
3
Centerstone of Tennessee Inc

Our mission is "delivering care that changes people's lives"

Health
4
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

Fort Sanders Regional 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.

Health
5
Methodist Medical Center

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.

Health
6
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is one of the nation's longest serving and most prestigious academic medical centers. Through its historic bond with Vanderbilt University, VUMC cultivates distinguished research and educational…

Health
7
Cumberland Heights Professional Associates Inc

Cumberland heights professional associates, inc. is committed to providing professional healthcare services in a high quality and cost effective manner for people suffering from substance abuse and/or dependence. as substance…

Unclassified
8
Cumberland Medical Center

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.

Health
9
Ut Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Inc

Ulps exists to support the missions of university of tennessee health science center and le bonheur children's hospital to provide high quality patient care, education, research and advocacy. ulps will collaborate with patients and their…

Health
10
Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Association

Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Association 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.

Health
11
Mountain States Health Alliance

Honor those we serve by delivering the best possible care.Ballad Health is dedicated to improving the health of the 29-county Appalachian Highlands region.

Health
12
Fort Loudoun Medical Center

Fort Loudoun 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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cumberland Heights Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARTIN METHODIST FOUNDATION (FORMERLY MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE): $2,350,000 · EducationMARTIN METHODIST FOUNDATION (FORMERLY MARTIN METHO…THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $1,050,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INCBelmont University: $670,000 · EducationBelmont UniversityTHISTLE FARMS INC: $850,000 · OtherTHISTLE FARMS INCCUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY: $690,000 · OtherCUMBERLAND UNIVERSITYCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF MOSHI: $500,000 · OtherCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF MOSHIBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - CABIN: $475,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - CABINBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - STEM PROGRAM: $440,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - STEM PROGRAMSAINT THOMAS FOUNDATION: $382,000 · OtherSAINT THOMAS FOUNDATIONSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $190,000 · Other+3 more: $135,000 · OtherNASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $1,055,000 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE PUB…EAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC: $90,000 · HealthRENEWAL HOUSE INC: $75,000 · HealthCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthURBAN HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC: $110,500 · Housing & ShelterNURTURE THE NEXT FKA PREVENT CHILD ABUSE TENNESSEE: $50,000 · Crime & Legal
Education$4,070,000Other$3,662,000Arts & Culture$1,055,000Health$190,000Housing & Shelter$110,500Crime & Legal$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMARTIN METHODIST FOUNDATION (FORMERLY MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE): $2,350,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $1,055,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $1,050,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $850,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetCUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY: $690,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBelmont University: $670,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC: $110,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC: $90,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRENEWAL HOUSE INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetNURTURE THE NEXT FKA PREVENT CHILD ABUSE TENNESSEE: $50,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 MARTIN METHODIST FOUNDATION (FORMERLY MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE) ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
  • Who funds CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Belmont University ↗
  • Who funds URBAN HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds EAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RENEWAL HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Hope Panhandle Inc ↗
  • Who funds NURTURE THE NEXT FKA PREVENT CHILD ABUSE TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS 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.

The Community Foundat…Dorothy Cate and Thom…Memorial Foundation I…Hca Healthcare Founda…Raymond James Charita…Marlene and Spencer H…James R Meadows Jr Fo…The Boedecker Foundat…Ebs FoundationThe Healing Trust For…The Frist FoundationNashville Predators F…
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Marlene and Spencer Hays Foundation · James R Meadows Jr Foundation · The Boedecker Foundation · Ebs Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · The Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jeanette Travis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jeanette Travis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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