· Private foundation
Lucille S Thompson Fam Foundation Dba Bff Cumberland Trust Tte
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of LUCILLE S THOMPSON FAM FOUNDATION DBA BFF CUMBERLAND TRUST TTE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $113k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL | $50,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S TENNESSEE | $25,000 |
| EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BRUERN ABBEY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| TRUE NATURE HEALING ARTS FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| GUIDES TRUST FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| QUEST IN RECOVERY | $10,000 |
| DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE | $6,000 |
| RITE OF PASSAGE JOURNEYS | $6,000 |
| ROCK N ROLL RESCUE | $5,000 |
| HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIAN | $5,000 |
| YOUNG-WILLIAMS ANIMAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| MCCALLIE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Lucille S Thompson Fam Foundation Dba Bff Cumberland Trust Tte’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
- EYEMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $119k · revenue +31%
- PFPORTER-GAUD FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2023 · $80k · revenue +309%
- ATALZHEIMERS TENNESSEE INC2× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- CECHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $35k
- IFISLAMORADA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $31k · revenue +289%
- PPLACE2BEone grant, 2020 · $13k
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.
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…
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…
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
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.
See Disclosure Above.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Alaska Whale Foundation is dedicated to marine mammal conservation through research monitoring and education.
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
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,…
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
50 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. 50 of the 75 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 EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PORTER-GAUD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds Project Main Street Inc ↗
- Who funds Pathfinders ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Naropa University ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON WATERKEEPER ↗
- Who funds ISLAMORADA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BENJAMIN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RITE OF PASSAGE JOURNEYS ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF LOST BORDERS ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds TRUE NATURE HEALING ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE OJAI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Guides Trust Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds QUEST IN RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds THE MCDAVID GROUP CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Charleston Literary Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds Middleton Place Foundation ↗
- Who funds ONE TREE PLANTED 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 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
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 Lucille S Thompson Fam Foundation Dba Bff Cumberland Trust Tte 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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