Tennessee · Public charity
Looking Out Foundation
To amplify the impact of music by empowering those without a voice. From neighborhood to nation, we fund organizations that often go unnoticed as they support social justice and humanitarian causes across the US and globally.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 16
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 89%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $221k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $329k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 89% of the organizations Looking Out Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 95% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $862k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 15 | $211k | 93% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $912k | 89% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $864k | 88% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $229k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $240k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $30k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $10k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children in Conflict Inc | $350,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc | $140,112 | 1 | 0% |
| Tennessee Equality Project Foundati | $135,000 | 1 | 41% |
| Center for Contemplative Justice | $135,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Outmemphis | $135,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Tennessee Pride Chamber Foundation | $135,000 | 1 | 59% |
| Takeaction Mn Education Fund | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kaleidoscope Ministries Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 30% |
| We the Protesters Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Trevor Project Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 55 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Looking Out Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 53 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Tides Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to Looking Out 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.
About Looking Out Foundation
- How much does Looking Out Foundation give?
- Looking Out Foundation reported 16 itemized grants totaling $220,500, out of $1,283,912 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Looking Out Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (32%), International (17%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Looking Out Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Children in Conflict Inc ($350k), Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc ($140k), Tennessee Equality Project Foundati ($135k).
- Does Looking Out Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 89% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Looking Out Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Tides Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is Looking Out Foundation based?
- Looking Out Foundation is based in TN.
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