Tennessee · Private foundation
Kharis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $733k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $133,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $20M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Kharis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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 | 22 | $600k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $505k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $560k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $421k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $415k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $481k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $441k | 48% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $382k | 53% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 Crossroads Campus | $230,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Progress Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Nashville Food Project Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Nations Ministry Center | $145,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Tennessee Justice Center Inc | $140,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Westminster Home Connection | $127,000 | 5 | 4% |
| The Family Center Inc | $115,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Tennessee Innocence Project | $90,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Building Lives Foundation Inc | $90,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Matthew 25 Inc | $80,000 | 3 | 3% |
Show all 61 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kharis 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: Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Joe C Davis Foundation · McCauley-Lindsay Charities of Tenn · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn · Boulevard Bolt Inc
How this is measured
About Kharis Foundation
- How much does Kharis Foundation give?
- Kharis Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $733,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Kharis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (22%), Philanthropy (21%), Religion (13%).
- Who are Kharis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Crossroads Campus ($230k), Progress Inc ($200k), Nashville Food Project Inc ($150k).
- Does Kharis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kharis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kharis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hca Healthcare Foundation, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Memorial Foundation Inc.
- Where is Kharis Foundation based?
- Kharis Foundation is based in TN.
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