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Louis R Draughon Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $59k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $195k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAIN STREET CHURCH OF CHRIST | $85,000 |
| FREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY | $55,000 |
| LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY | $55,000 |
| YMCA | $9,000 |
| MIDDLE TENNESSEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| STOKES BROWN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $7,000 |
| AGAPE | $7,000 |
| GOODPASTURE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN | $7,000 |
| PARADISE RANCH INC | $7,000 |
| SPRINGFIELD LIONS CLUB | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% 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 +41% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FUFREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $332k · revenue +41%
- LULIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $315k · revenue +41%
- PRParadise Ranch Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- RORAINBOW OMEGA INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -3%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273)graduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +58%
- NFNORTHCREST FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +74%
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.
Central christian college of the bible (central) exists to develop servant-leaders for the church. as a traditional undergraduate bible college of the restoration movement, central equips faithful men and women for leadership ministry.
Christian fellowship for college students
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
Private Baptist College
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
To partner with families in providing students a christ-centered and academically challenging education equipping them with a biblical worldview as they grow in understandings, attitudes, skills, and in favor with god and man.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
Teaching Bible Students
To equip men to initiate and lead for christ in their homes, churches, communities and the marketplace.
Educational instruciton for students in prek-12th grades.
Educational institution
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Middle Tennessee Christian School and the most unlike its peers is Stokes Brown Public Library Foundat. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 30 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 FREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Paradise Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
- Who funds POTTER CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE TENNESSEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW OMEGA INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) ↗
- Who funds NORTHCREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds STOKES BROWN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds BYRUM-PORTER SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERTSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES OF CHRIST DISASTER RELIEF EFFORT 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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Washington Foundation · Yarbrough Family Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Louis R Draughon 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.
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