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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
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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.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalReligionEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving22$600k18%
FY202422$505k14%
FY202331$560k26%
FY202224$421k38%
FY202123$415k17%
FY202027$481k26%
FY201921$441k48%
FY201819$382k53%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.1MReligion$682kFood & Nutrition$643kCrime & Legal$460kHousing & Shelter$412kHealth$250kEmployment$169kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Crossroads Campus$230,00083%
Progress Inc$200,00041%
Nashville Food Project Inc$150,00032%
Nations Ministry Center$145,00073%
Tennessee Justice Center Inc$140,00041%
Westminster Home Connection$127,00054%
The Family Center Inc$115,00092%
Tennessee Innocence Project$90,00042%
Building Lives Foundation Inc$90,00066%
Matthew 25 Inc$80,00033%
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All grantees of Kharis Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Crossroads Campus$230,00083%
Progress Inc$200,00041%
Nashville Food Project Inc$150,00032%
Nations Ministry Center$145,00073%
Tennessee Justice Center Inc$140,00041%
Westminster Home Connection$127,00054%
The Family Center Inc$115,00092%
Tennessee Innocence Project$90,00042%
Building Lives Foundation Inc$90,00066%
Matthew 25 Inc$80,00033%
The Mary Parrish Center$80,00042%
Brightstone Inc$80,00051%
Renewal House Inc$75,00021%
Special Kids Inc$75,00061%
Begin Anew$75,00082%
Tucker's House$65,00052%
Edgehill Neighborhood Partnership$65,00046%
Ancoratn Fka End Slavery Tennessee Inc$65,00041%
Community Resource Center$60,00032%
Casa Inc$60,00062%
Justice Industries Inc$60,00063%
Helping Hands of Putnam County$55,00056%
Doors of Hope$50,000210%
Inspiritus Inc$50,00010%
Park Center Inc$49,00010%
Learning Matters Inc$44,18042%
Prospect Inc$40,00040%
Williamson County Child Advocacy Center Inc$40,00041%
Lambscroft Ministries Inc Dba the Cookery$40,00023%
Preston Taylor Ministries$35,00031%
Monroe Harding Inc$35,00011%
Nashville Adult Literacy Council Inc$32,00032%
Big Brothersbig Sisters of Middle Tn$30,00021%
Charis Health Center$30,00019%
McNeilly Center for Children Inc$25,00011%
Nashville Conflict Resolution Ctr$25,00013%
Samaritan Recovery Community Inc$25,00011%
Endure Athletics Foundation Inc$25,00014%
Dismas Inc$25,00011%
Graceworks Ministries Inc$25,00020%
Ministry Leadership Center Fka Center for Youth Ministry Training$22,00011%
Sumner Teen Center Inc$21,00037%
Urban Housing Solutions Inc$20,00020%
Jobs for Life Inc$20,00012%
Project Return Inc$20,00020%
Oasis Center Inc$20,00010%
Pastoral Counseling Centers of Tenn$20,0001n/a
Needlink Nashville$20,00011%
The Heimerdinger Foundation Inc$15,00013%
Communiserve$15,0001n/a
Project Return Inc$15,00016%
Pathways Kitchen$10,0001n/a
Amputee Blade Runners$10,00011%
Empower Me Center a Nonprofit Corporation$10,00012%
St Luke's Community House Inc$10,00010%
Interfaith Dental Clinic of Nashville$10,00010%
My Bag My Story$5,00012%
Philanthropy Southeast Inc$5,00010%
Murfreesboro Muslim Youth Inc$2,50012%
Priest Lake Presbyterian Church$2,0182n/a
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Mn Minnesotanorth Dakotasouth Dakota$20010%

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.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Crossroads Campus: $230,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetProgress Inc: $200,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNashville Food Project Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetNations Ministry Center: $145,000 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetTennessee Justice Center Inc: $140,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetWestminster Home Connection: $127,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetThe Family Center Inc: $115,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetTennessee Innocence Project: $90,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetBuilding Lives Foundation Inc: $90,000 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetMatthew 25 Inc: $80,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetThe Mary Parrish Center: $80,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetBrightstone Inc: $80,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetRenewal House Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSpecial Kids Inc: $75,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetBegin Anew: $75,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetTucker's House: $65,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetEdgehill Neighborhood Partnership: $65,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetAncoratn Fka End Slavery Tennessee Inc: $65,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCommunity Resource Center: $60,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCasa Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetJustice Industries Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetHelping Hands of Putnam County: $55,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetDoors of Hope: $50,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetInspiritus Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPark Center Inc: $49,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLearning Matters Inc: $44,180 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetProspect Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWilliamson County Child Advocacy Center Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetLambscroft Ministries Inc Dba the Cookery: $40,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetPreston Taylor Ministries: $35,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMonroe Harding Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNashville Adult Literacy Council Inc: $32,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBig Brothersbig Sisters of Middle Tn: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCharis Health Center: $30,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetMcNeilly Center for Children Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNashville Conflict Resolution Ctr: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSamaritan Recovery Community Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEndure Athletics Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetDismas Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGraceworks Ministries Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMinistry Leadership Center Fka Center for Youth Ministry Training: $22,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSumner Teen Center Inc: $21,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetUrban Housing Solutions Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJobs for Life Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetProject Return Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOasis Center Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNeedlink Nashville: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Heimerdinger Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 57.

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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.

Hca Healthcare FoundationTN84× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

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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.

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 80 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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