· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PARADISE RANCH INC | $7,000 |
| STOKES BROWN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $7,000 |
| AGAPE | $7,000 |
| GOODPASTURE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN | $7,000 |
| SPRINGFIELD LIONS CLUB | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN | $2,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those 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
How this is measured
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 +6%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273)graduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +58%
- NFNORTHCREST FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +74%
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.
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
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 ROBERTSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES OF CHRIST DISASTER RELIEF EFFORT INC ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Louis R Draughon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis R Draughon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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