· Private foundation
Kharis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $363k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $369k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $133,500 |
| NOURISH FOOD BANK | $85,000 |
| THE PRESBYTERY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $50,000 |
| INSPIRITUS | $50,000 |
| RENEWAL HOUSE | $50,000 |
| PARK CENTER | $49,000 |
| CROSSROAD CAMPUS | $30,000 |
| MATTHEW 25 INC | $30,000 |
| WESTMINSTER HOME CONNECTIONS | $27,000 |
| ENDURE ATHLETICS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT | $25,000 |
| TUCKERS HOUSE | $25,000 |
| THE MARY PARRISH CENTER | $25,000 |
| NATIONS MINISTRY CENTER | $20,000 |
| SPECIAL KIDS | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $960k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 4 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k 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
- TCTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS8× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue +189%
- PIPROGRESS INC4× · 2018–2023 · $200k · revenue +60%
- NFNASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC3× · 2019–2021 · $150k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- WPWOODLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $70k
- MHMONROE HARDING INCone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue -1%
- CHCHARIS HEALTH CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +174%
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.
To empower individuals living with disabilities and challenges to gain independence
To empower adults with developmental disabilities by providing affordable housing, work that is meaningful and an inclusive community in which to live.
Nashville inner city ministry is a christ-centered community organization dedicated to empowering the spiritual, educational and vocational development of at-risk youth and their families.
Lead our community's efforts to house, support, empower and advocate for families experiencing homelessness.
Mental health cooperative inc. (mhc) provides integrated health services that include behavioral health care, primary health care, addiction services, and community-based care management. mhc also provides emergency psychiatric services…
By creating a safe and structured two year residential program the Hope House of Tennessee will aim to equip and empower personal and educational growth economic self-sufficiency and a deeper understanding of Christs unconditional love.
Memphis recovery centers, inc. (mrc) provides compassionate treatment services for youth and adults suffering from substance addiction and co-occurring disorders, utilizing professional methods to improve spiritual, physical, emotional,…
Reuniting with god, family, and community
To reduce homelessness and improve family stability by increasing housing resources, administration of hud-mckinney vento funds, and support services through collaborative efforts with partner organizations, when available.
To assist persons with intellectual disabilities and other disabilities live in the community in such a way that there is an acceptable balance between their opportunities to experience a lifestyle meaningful to themselves and the risks…
To promote independence for persons with disabilities and provide guidance, education, and advocacy.
Caringworks' mission is to reduce homelessness and empower the marginalized by providing access to housing and services that foster dignity, self-sufficieny & well-being.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Luke's Community House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Justice Industries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
61 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. 61 of the 80 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS ↗
- Who funds PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONS MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER HOME CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BUILDING LIVES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARY PARRISH CENTER ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
- Who funds BEGIN ANEW ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds RENEWAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TUCKER'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds EDGEHILL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds ANCORATN FKA END SLAVERY TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CASA INC ↗
- Who funds Justice Industries Inc ↗
- Who funds Helping Hands of Putnam County ↗
- Who funds Inspiritus Inc ↗
- Who funds DOORS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds PARK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LEARNING MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds LAMBSCROFT MINISTRIES INC DBA THE COOKERY ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSON COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT INC ↗
- Who funds PRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MONROE HARDING INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ADULT LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
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: 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
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 Kharis 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.