· Private foundation
Newell & Bettie Graham Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $83k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ole Miss Athletic Foundation | $24,750 |
| St James Episcopal Church | $21,500 |
| University of Mississippi Foundation | $15,000 |
| Discovery Park of America | $11,500 |
| Masquerade Theatre | $10,000 |
| Union City Rotary Foundation | $6,000 |
| National World War II Museum | $5,000 |
| American Diabetes Association | $2,000 |
| Freedom in Faith Outdoors | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| St Marks on the Mesa Episcopal Church | $2,000 |
| Arbor Day Foundation | $1,000 |
| Young Life | $1,000 |
| US Olympic Shooting | $1,000 |
| Main Street Union City Inc | $600 |
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 (FY19–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 75% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 9 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DPDiscovery Park of America Inc6× · 2019–2025 · $72k · revenue +98%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +57%
- TNTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC8× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of TN Athleticsone grant, 2017 · $20k
- SCSt Columbia Foundationone grant, 2023 · $10k
- UCUnion City Athletic Foundationone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
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.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
See Disclosure Above.
The foundation accepts, manages, and disburses private support to the university of memphis.
The university of dayton is a top-tier independent, catholic research educational institution founded in 1850. the primary exempt purpose is providing post secondary education through undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and continuing…
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
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 39 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 Discovery Park of America Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CHIMES FOR CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds OLE MISS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Masquerade Theatre ↗
- Who funds SHIFT MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds UNION CITY ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTIQUES & GARDEN SHOW OF NASHVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds OutsideIN ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds THE BADDOUR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Main Street Union City Inc ↗
- Who funds WAVES 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Newell & Bettie Graham Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Newell & Bettie Graham Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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