Does Lucille S Thompson Fam Foundation Dba Bff Cumberland Trust Tte accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Lucille S Thompson Fam Foundation Dba Bff Cumberland Trust Tte?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Joanna Foundation, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.

Lucille S Thompson Fam Foundation Dba Bff Cumberland Trust Tte

Lucille S Thompson Fam Foundation Dba Bff Cumberland Trust Tte at a glance

· Private foundation

Lucille S Thompson Fam Foundation Dba Bff Cumberland Trust Tte

Q: What does Lucille S Thompson Fam Foundation Dba Bff Cumberland Trust Tte fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2026, its largest causes are Health (28%), Education (27%), Religion (11%).

Q: Who are Lucille S Thompson Fam Foundation Dba Bff Cumberland Trust Tte's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2026: Emerald Youth Foundation ($119k), Porter-Gaud Foundation ($80k), Alzheimers Tennessee Inc ($75k).

Q: Does Lucille S Thompson Fam Foundation Dba Bff Cumberland Trust Tte fund new organizations?

In FY2025, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$110k

Granted FY2026still arriving

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$45k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$409kEducation$393kReligion$164kYouth Development$136kCommunity Improvement$99kEnvironment$65kArts & Culture$48kHuman Services$41kOther$0

02FY2026 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

Under $10k7 grants · $35k
$10k–50k4 grants · $75k

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$75k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL	$45,000
BRUERN ABBEY SCHOOL	$10,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY	$10,000
FLOURISH FOUNDATION	$10,000
TRUE NATURE HEALING ARTS FOUNDATION	$7,500
RITE OF PASSAGE JOURNEYS	$7,500
SALVATION ARMY OF PALM BEACH CO	$6,500
HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION	$5,000
PATHFINDERS	$5,000
THE BENJAMIN SCHOOL	$2,000
BETHESDA-BY-THE-SEA CHURCH	$1,250

02The need

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 (FY22–26, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Lucille S Thompson Fam Foundation Dba Bff Cumberland Trust Tte’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Lucille S Thompson Fam Foundation Dba Bff Cumberland Trust Ttelessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 7.8% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.3M · 33 repeat orgs$263k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2026, 23 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$253k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+19%

Still filing today

70%

62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureAnimalsOther

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

EY
EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2025 · $119k · revenue +31%
PF
PORTER-GAUD FOUNDATION
3× · 2020–2023 · $80k · revenue +309%
AT
ALZHEIMERS TENNESSEE INC
2× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +30%

Funded once

CE
CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
one grant, 2020 · $35k
IF
ISLAMORADA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $31k · revenue +289%
P
PLACE2BE
one grant, 2020 · $13k

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.

President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education

National Forest Foundation

The national forest foundation (nff), chartered by congress, turns america's love of nature into meaningful action for 193-million acre national forest system through on the ground program work and grant making activities, and accepts and…

Recreation & Sports

Conservation Legacy

Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…

Youth Development

The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment

Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals

Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment

African Parks Foundation of America

To engage the united states and its citizens in the work of african parks and to promote access to american experience and expertise in the african parks actiities by 1) raising funds for specific projects, activities, training, equipment…

Recreation & Sports

Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Basic Projects Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 76 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

51/51

Grantees still filing

38/51

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$937,859Health$196,300Education$149,000Youth Development$143,800Philanthropy$87,700Environment$42,500Community Improvement$32,500

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.

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 Joanna FoundationSC17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Joanna Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Guffey Family Foundation · Post and Courier Foundation · East Tennessee Foundation · Southern Imagination Foundation · The Meier and Linnartz Family Foundation · The Harvey-McNairy Foundation Inc · Greater Horizons · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Lucille S Thompson Fam Foundation Dba Bff Cumberland Trust Tte funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lucille S Thompson Fam Foundation Dba Bff Cumberland Trust Tte. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

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.

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