Tennessee · Private foundation
Newell & Bettie Graham Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $105k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $24,750
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Newell & Bettie Graham Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $105k | 60% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $110k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $118k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $91k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $91k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $81k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $82k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $84k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery Park of America Inc | $71,600 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Mississippi Foundation | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The National World War II Museum Inc | $30,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Chimes for Charity Inc | $29,500 | 5 | 16% |
| Ole Miss Athletic Foundation | $24,750 | 1 | 0% |
| Young Life | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Masquerade Theatre | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Freedom in Faith Outdoors | $8,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Shift Missions | $8,000 | 2 | 14% |
| Union City Rotary Foundation | $6,000 | 1 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery Park of America Inc | $71,600 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Mississippi Foundation | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The National World War II Museum Inc | $30,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Chimes for Charity Inc | $29,500 | 5 | 16% |
| Ole Miss Athletic Foundation | $24,750 | 1 | 0% |
| Young Life | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Masquerade Theatre | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Freedom in Faith Outdoors | $8,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Shift Missions | $8,000 | 2 | 14% |
| Union City Rotary Foundation | $6,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Antiques & Garden Show of Nashville Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| OutsideIN | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Diabetes Association | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Baddour Center Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| National Arbor Day Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Main Street Union City Inc | $600 | 1 | 0% |
| Waves Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($600k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Newell & Bettie Graham Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Newell & Bettie Graham Foundation
- How much does Newell & Bettie Graham Foundation give?
- Newell & Bettie Graham Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $105,350 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Newell & Bettie Graham Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (40%), Education (18%), Arts & Culture (16%).
- Who are Newell & Bettie Graham Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Discovery Park of America Inc ($72k), University of Mississippi Foundation ($35k), The National World War II Museum Inc ($30k).
- Does Newell & Bettie Graham Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Newell & Bettie Graham Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Newell & Bettie Graham Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Newell & Bettie Graham Foundation based?
- Newell & Bettie Graham Foundation is based in TN.
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