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Joy 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRITCHARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| PURE WORD DELIVERANCE HOUSE OF PRAYER | $25,000 |
| AMLOVED FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PURE WORD DELIVERANCE HOUSE OF PRAYER | $10,000 |
| JOHN MINICK MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| MCKENZIE CAREY | $5,000 |
| WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER | $2,000 |
| SCAN OF WILSON COUNTY | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those 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.
12 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k 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
- PWPURE WORD DELIVERANCE HOUSE OF PRAYER5× · 2020–2025 · $177k
- GFGRACE FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES2× · 2023–2024 · $65k
- SCSENIOR CITIZENS AWARENESS NETWORK2× · 2017–2022 · $27k · revenue -67%
Funded once
- UFUT Foundationone grant, 2017 · $100k
- RLRUBY L ELDRIDGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $50k
- AHAngel Heart Farm Incone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -7%
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.
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The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
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To provide with compassion and dedication superior quality health care and rehabilitation for adults and to directly or indirectly coordinate arrangements and provision for comprehensive health care and social support services to frail…
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…
We help advance the independence of individuals with disabilities & other special needs.
To share the gospel of jesus christ to the world, to teach & equip the disciples of christ, to teach & train the next generation, to bring the people of god closer together using radio, social media, print literature & other audio & video…
As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.
To provide quality and caring adult day care services within a safe comfortable licensed facility. our most significant activities and impacts include proving meals, transportation, health information.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prichard Preparatory School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Senior Citizens Awareness Network. 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 29 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 PRICHARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS AWARENESS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds Angel Heart Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF AMERICANA ROOTS MUSIC ↗
- Who funds JOHNNY MINICK MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ENCOURAGEMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
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 · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Joy 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.
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