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Pace Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$37k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$300kEducation$101kArts & Culture$79kPublic Benefit$16kAnimals$14kHuman Services$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
$2,090
Median grant
1
States reached
$344k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Humphries County Arts Council$27,000
American Legion Post 34$4,500
Individual grant recipient$2,090
Humpreys County Humane Society$2,000
Vietnam Vets Associaion$1,000
Humphreys County Museum$450
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 1% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%United Way of Humprhreys County: $300k → 13%American Cancer Society: $200 → 15%Universtiy of Tennessee: $500 → 18%Phi Sigma Kappa Foundation: $3k → 16%Humphries County Arts Council: $27k → 13%Phi Sigma Kappa Foundation: $1k → 16%Waverly Board of Education: $21k → 13%Phi Sigma Kappa Foundation: $1k → 16%Waverly Board of Education: $20k → 13%Waverly Board of Education: $18k → 13%Waverly Board of Education: $17k → 13%American Legion: $12k → 13%Waverly Central High School: $11k → 13%Humphries County Arts Council: $10k → 13%Humphreys County Museum: $10k → 13%Humphries County Arts Council: $10k → 13%Humpries County CTE: $6k → 13%American Legion Post 34: $5k → 13%Humphreys County Museum: $4k → 13%American Legion: $3k → 13%Humpreys County CTE: $2k → 13%Humpreys County Humane Society: $2k → 13%Humphreys County Museum: $2k → 13%Humpreys County Humane society: $2k → 13%Humpreys County Humane society: $2k → 13%Humpreys County Humane society: $2k → 13%Humphreys County Museum: $2k → 13%Humpreys County Humane Society: $2k → 13%Humphreys County Humane Society: $2k → 13%Humpreys County Humane Society: $2k → 13%Humphreys County Museum: $2k → 13%Humphreys County Museum: $2k → 13%Humphreys Co Art Council: $2k → 13%Humphreys Co Art Council: $2k → 13%Humphreys Co Art Council: $2k → 13%City of Waverly: $1k → 13%Heimerdinger Foundation: $1k → 13%American Legion: $1k → 13%Humphreys Co ARt Council: $1k → 13%Vietnam Vets Associaion: $1k → 13%Humphreys County Historical Society: $500 → 13%Humphries County Historical Society: $500 → 13%Humphries County Historical Society: $500 → 13%Humphries County Historical Society: $500 → 13%Humphreys County Museum: $450 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$188k · 8 repeat orgs$330k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
9

Total granted

$188k
$322k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-33%
0%

Still filing today

38%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WB
    Waverly Board of Education
    4× · 2017–2020 · $75k
  • HC
    Humphries County Arts Council
    3× · 2022–2025 · $47k
  • HC
    Humphreys County Museum Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue -68%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF HUMPHREYS COUNTY
    one grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue -18%
  • HC
    HUMPHREYS COUNTY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2022 · $11k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
2/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF HUMPHREYS COUNTY: $300,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF HUMPHREYS COUNTYWaverly Board of Education: $74,671 · OtherWaverly Board of EducationHumphries County Arts Council: $47,000 · OtherHumphries County Arts CouncilAMERICAN LEGION: $16,000 · OtherAMERICAN LEGIONHUMPHREYS COUNTY SCHOOLS: $10,730 · OtherHUMPHREYS COUNTY SCHOOLSIndividual grant recipient: $6,133 · Other+10 more: $23,855 · Other+10 moreHumphreys County Museum Inc: $23,950 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureHUMPHREYS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $14,000 · AnimalsThe Heimerdinger Foundation Inc: $1,000 · Health
Philanthropy$300,000Other$178,389Arts & Culture$24,450Animals$14,000Health$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHumphreys County Museum Inc: $23,950 over 8y, 16% of budgetHUMPHREYS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $14,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetThe Heimerdinger Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 UNITED WAY OF HUMPHREYS COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Humphreys County Museum Inc ↗
  • Who funds HUMPHREYS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds PHI SIGMA KAPPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Heimerdinger Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Humphreys County Historical Society ↗

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pace Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pace Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Pace Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Pace Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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