· Private foundation
Lift Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFT FOUNDATION DONOR ADVISED FUND | $17,738 |
| KNOX AREA RESCUE MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $1,160 |
| REDEEMER COMMUNITY CHURCH | $1,000 |
| HERITAGE BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
| STREET HOPE | $500 |
| THE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE | $500 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $500 |
| EMMAUS COMMUNITY | $300 |
| BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION | $300 |
| FAMILIES FREE | $250 |
| THE RIVER | $250 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $100 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH CONCORD | $40 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +251% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE6× · 2018–2024 · $11k · revenue +163%
- TCThe Coalition for Kids Inc2× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +289%
- BKBROTHERS KEEPER4× · 2017–2023 · $4k · revenue +630%
Funded once
- EYEMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +28%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
- ETEAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +105%
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.
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
Leadership Revolution is a ministry founded to develop leaders globally who will spread the gospel and make disciples in their arena of influence.
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.
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.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
How this is measured
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 54 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds The Coalition for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds KNOX AREA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BROTHERS KEEPER ↗
- Who funds EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds EAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds ARMED FORCES MISSION INC dba STOP SUICIDE USA ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds 2ND CENTURY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds Families Free Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED EMMAUS COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BELIEF IN MOTION INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE MISSIONS ↗
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: East Tennessee Foundation · Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee · Bill and Crissy Haslam Foundation · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · Graham Foundation · Thompson Charitable Foundation · Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lift Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lift Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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