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Lifepoint Community Foundation

$950k
Granted FY2023
33
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$273k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Health$523kFood & Nutrition$235kRecreation & Sports$129kPublic Safety & Disaster$90kPhilanthropy$50kEducation$45kYouth Development$36kReligion$35kOther$0
02FY2023 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k8 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $297k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $375k
  • $250k+1 grant · $273k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Heart Association$272,500
Second Harvest of Middle TN$225,000
Special Olympics of Tennessee$100,000
United Way of Greater Nashville$50,000
Gildas Club$25,000
Youth About Business$25,000
B'nai B'rith International$25,000
The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society$25,000
LifeCare Disaster Recover Fund$21,500
Ascension Saint Thomas Foundation$20,000
Colon Cancer Coalition$15,000
Cul2Vate$10,000
Tennessee Perfroming Arts Center$10,000
American Red Cross$10,000
Siloam Health$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%The Refuge Center for Counseling: $200 → 4%Cul2Vate: $10k → 14%Rooftop Nashville: $10k → 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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$412k · 4 repeat orgs$795k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
13

Total granted

$412k
$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-6%
+18%

Still filing today

75%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $657k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsCrime & 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

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $315k · revenue +25%
  • LD
    LifeCare Disaster Recover Fund
    4× · 2020–2023 · $47k
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $41k · revenue -16%

Funded once

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +59%
  • DL
    DANVILLE LIFE SAVING AND FIRST AID CREW INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +102%
  • MM
    MARTIN METHODIST FOUNDATION (FORMERLY MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE)
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -99%
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
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
2
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
3
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
4
Ut Medical Group Inc

To be a successful physician led, professionally managed medical practice that benefits our patients and our community, while supporting the UT Health Science Center's mission through clinical excellence, financial responsibility and a…

Health
5
Roane County Medical Center

Roane County 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
Tennessee State Collaborative On Reforming Education

The mission of the state collaborative on reforming education (score) is to catalyze transformative change in tennessee education so that all students can achieve success. score is an independent, nonprofit, and nonpartisan institution,…

Education
7
Nashville Cares

Nashville cares exists to end the hiv epidemic, promote comprehensive sexual health and end sexual health stigmatization and discrimination through prevention, education, treatment, support, advocacy, and strategic partnership.

Health
8
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc

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
9
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
10
Centerstone of Tennessee Inc

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

Health
11
East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc

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…

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Faith Family Medical Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bridges. 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

25 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. 25 of the 46 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
15/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Second Harvest of Middle TN: $225,000 · OtherSecond Harvest of Middle TNSPECIAL OLYMPICS TENNESSEE INC: $100,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS TENNESSEE INCLifeCare Disaster Recover Fund: $47,100 · OtherLifeCare Disaster Recover FundYouth About Business: $25,000 · OtherGildas Club: $25,000 · OtherBNAI BRITH INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 · Other+26 more: $207,499 · Other+26 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc: $314,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $40,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $35,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCDANVILLE LIFE SAVING AND FIRST AID CREW INC: $30,000 · HealthDANVILLE LIFE SAVING AND FIRST AID CREW I…+2 more: $17,500 · HealthUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyMARTIN METHODIST FOUNDATION (FORMERLY MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE): $25,000 · Education+1 more: $200 · EducationCUL2VATE: $10,000 · Human ServicesROOFTOP FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $200 · Human ServicesBACKFIELD IN MOTION: $10,200 · Recreation & SportsBRIDGES: $10,000 · International
Other$654,599Health$437,500Philanthropy$50,000Education$25,200Human Services$20,200Recreation & Sports$10,200International$10,000

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 budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $314,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS TENNESSEE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $40,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANVILLE LIFE SAVING AND FIRST AID CREW INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMARTIN METHODIST FOUNDATION (FORMERLY MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE): $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT THOMAS HEALTH FOUNDATIONS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRIDGES FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBACKFIELD IN MOTION: $10,200 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMatthew Walker Comprehensive Health Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget413 STRONG INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCUL2VATE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSILOAM HEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROOFTOP FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNURTURE THE NEXT FKA PREVENT CHILD ABUSE TENNESSEE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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…Memorial Foundation I…Hca Healthcare Founda…The Frist FoundationUnited Way of Middle …Dorothy Cate and Thom…Joe C Davis FoundationThe Healing Trust For…Raymond James Charita…Thomas & Mamie Houser…The Steven & Laurie E…Servant Foundation
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN33.1× affinity16 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 · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Thomas & Mamie Houser Charitable Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Servant 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 Lifepoint Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lifepoint Community 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%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Lifepoint Community Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lifepoint Community Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 46 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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