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· Private foundation

Newell & Bettie Graham Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$110k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Recreation & Sports$295kEducation$132kArts & Culture$120kReligion$111kYouth Development$49kPublic Benefit$14kHuman Services$10kPhilanthropy$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
$6,200
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of MS Athletics$36,750
St James Episcopal Church$25,000
U T Foundation Athletics$23,000
National World War II Museum$10,000
Freedom in Faith Outdoors$6,200
Outside In$5,000
St Jude Children's Research Hospital$2,000
Chimes for Charity$1,000
The Baddour Center$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%Waves Inc: $500 → 4%The Baddour Center: $1k → 19%The Baddour Center: $500 → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$676k · 21 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
7

Total granted

$676k
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+128%

Still filing today

38%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentReligionPhilanthropyOther

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

  • DP
    Discovery Park of America Inc
    5× · 2019–2023 · $60k · revenue +98%
  • CF
    CHIMES FOR CHARITY INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +18%
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of TN Athletics
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • SC
    St Columbia Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • UC
    Union City Athletic Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc

The organization's mission is to create extraordinary learning experiences across the arts, sciences and humanities that have the power to transform the lives of children and families. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
Computer History Museum

Chm decodes technology - its computing past, digital present, and future impact on humanity.

Arts & Culture
4
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
5
East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc

East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…

Health
6
Union University

Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education
7
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
8
Newport Art Museum and Art Association

The newport art museum's mission is to share a diversity of art and experiences that spark reflection, inspiration, and connection within our newport community and beyond. the museum was founded in 1912 on the belief that arts and culture…

Arts & Culture
9
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
10
David Rives Ministries

David rives ministries reveals god's glory through creation science and steam education.

Religion
11
Disabilityin

The organization is the leading nonprofit resource for business disability inclusion worldwide. together with the world's leading brands, disability:in drives progress on disability inclusion through initiatives, tools, and expertise that…

Community Improvement
12
Mint Museum of Art Inc

The mint museum welcomes all to be inspired and transformed through the power of art and creativity.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Baddour Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of MS Athletics — $168,450 · OtherUniversity of MS AthleticsSt James Episcopal Church — $100,600 · OtherSt James Episcopal ChurchU T Foundation Athletics — $80,750 · OtherU T Foundation AthleticsUnion City Rotary Club — $48,000 · OtherUnion City Rotary ClubUniversity of MS Fast Track — $45,000 · OtherUniversity of MS Fast TrackSt Columba Episcopal Camp — $30,000 · OtherCHIMES FOR CHARITY INC — $29,500 · Other+16 more — $111,450 · Other+16 moreDiscovery Park of America Inc — $60,100 · Arts & CultureDiscovery Pa…THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL…UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EducationYOUNG LIFE — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSHIFT MISSIONS — $8,000 · ReligionANTIQUES & GARDEN SHOW OF NASHVILLE INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyOutsideIN — $5,000 · Employment
Other$613,750Arts & Culture$85,100Education$20,000Youth Development$10,000Religion$8,000Philanthropy$5,000Employment$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDiscovery Park of America Inc — $60,100 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHIMES FOR CHARITY INC — $29,500 over 5y, 16% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC — $25,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHIFT MISSIONS — $8,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetOutsideIN — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BADDOUR CENTER INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAVES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Discovery Park of America Inc
  • Who funds CHIMES FOR CHARITY INC
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE
  • Who funds SHIFT MISSIONS
  • Who funds ANTIQUES & GARDEN SHOW OF NASHVILLE INC
  • Who funds OutsideIN
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds THE BADDOUR CENTER INC
  • Who funds WAVES 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Newell & Bettie Graham 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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