· Private foundation
Niswonger Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k7 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TENNESSEE | $13,000 |
| ANDREW JOHNSON HERITAGE ASSOCIATION | $5,350 |
| GREENE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP INC | $2,750 |
| TENNESSEE INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| THE DICTIONARY PROJECT | $1,872 |
| THE ARTHUR PROJECT | $1,500 |
| STREAMWORKS | $500 |
| GREENEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY19–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TN3× · 2018–2020 · $40k · revenue +70%
- GCGREENE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP INC3× · 2018–2020 · $7k · revenue +6%
- NPNISWONGER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER BOARD2× · 2018–2019 · $6k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- CCCARTER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2019 · $4k
- HCHANCOCK COUNTY SCHOOLSone grant, 2018 · $3k
- CHCHEROKEE HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
To be clearly recognized as the most effective way to serve the most people through organizing voluntary efforts aimed at strengthening the Greene County community.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Greener partners' mission is to strengthen community health through urban farming, fresh food access, and food education. since our founding in 2008, we have partnered with schools and hospitals to address barriers to healthy food and to…
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
To help local farms thrive, link farmers to markets and supporters, and build healthy communities through connections to local food.
To identify, prevent, and remedy water pollution statewide through a network of allies and resources.
Step fosters a cross-sector collaborative to build a robust local talent pipeline. step connects the dots from cradle to career, ensuring that young people in nash and edgecombe counties are exposed to and fully prepared for the 21st…
To restore and protect clean water and healthy ecosystems for rivers in tennessee by employing scientific expertise and collaborative relationships to develop, promote, and support broad community stewardship and action.
See schedule oto develop, implement and sustain a vision for responsible and inspired growth for the next four decades. through collaboration, communication, analytics and innovation, the thrive regional partnership will optimize community…
Arts & business council of greater nashville supports and promotes the arts by driving collaboration between arts and business that contribute to the creativity, vitality, and prosperity of greater nashville/the regions/the city.
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
Plan and develop resource conservation and development programs
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Tennessee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rural Resources. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 28 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 SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TN ↗
- Who funds GREENE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds NISWONGER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER BOARD ↗
- Who funds THE DICTIONARY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE ARTHUR PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE VAN WERT COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds STREAMWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Rural Resources ↗
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.
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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 Niswonger Foundation Inc 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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