· Private foundation
Niswonger Foundation Inc
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, FY2018 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (FY19–20, $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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
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 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 ↗
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 Niswonger Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Niswonger Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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