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Pam Lewis Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$215k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$312kEnvironment$198kEducation$190kHousing & Shelter$37kHuman Services$28kRecreation & Sports$28kCivil Rights$27kReligion$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$1,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Land Trust for Tennessee$149,500
The Battle of Franklin Trust$10,000
Charity Water$10,000
Nashville Public Radio$7,500
Williamson County African American Veterans Foundation$7,000
Franklin Charge$4,500
Friends of Franklin Parks$3,400
Tennessee State Museum$3,000
African American Heritage Society$3,000
African American Heritage Association$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Lundeen Sculptures Ltd - Ben Franklin Sculpture$1,500
Belmont Mansion Association - Spring Event 2025$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,250
AgeWell Middle Tennessee$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 (FY17–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Boystown: $250 → 12%Orphan Acres: $125 → 16%Guiding Eyes for the Blind: $10 → 9%Sheep Dog Impact Assistance: $500 → 8%Charity Water: $10k → 4%Mid Cumberland Meals on Wheels: $500 → 14%Crossroad Campus: $250 → 14%Crossroads Campus: $150 → 14%AgeWell Middle Tennessee: $1k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$544k · 72 repeat orgs$397k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

72 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 62 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
187

Total granted

$544k
$217k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+26%

Still filing today

58%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureAnimalsEducationHealthInternationalHuman ServicesOther

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

  • BO
    BATTLE OF FRANKLIN TRUST INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +3%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF FRANKLIN PARKS INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +324%
  • HB
    HARD BARGAIN MT HOPE REDEVELOPMENT INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +242%

Funded once

  • BO
    Battle Of Franklin Trust - Battlefield Reclamation
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • BM
    Belmont Mansion- Enslavement Gallery Exhibit
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • AA
    African American Heritage Foundation - AI Williams House
    one grant, 2024 · $15k

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.

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American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
2
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
3
American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign

The american wild horse campaign is the nation's leading conservation organization dedicated to preserving the freedom and habitat of wild horses and burros. through its initiatives in advocacy, conservation, land preservation, and legal…

Animals
4
Nonhuman Rights Project Inc

The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) is the only civil rights organization in The United States dedicated solely to securing fundamental rights for nonhuman animals and the leading force in building a national and global nonhuman rights…

Animals
5
Four Paws International Inc

Our vision is a world where humans treat animals with respect, empathy and understanding. four paws mission is to be the strong, global and independent voice for animals.

Animals
6
Northern Jaguar Project

The mission of the northern jaguar project is to preserve and recover the world's northermost population of the jaguar, its unique natural habitat, and native wildlife under its protection as a flagship, keystone, and umbrella species.

Animals
7
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
8
Tennessee Aquarium

The mission of the Tennessee Aquarium is to connect people with nature and empower them to make informed decisions about water and wildlife.

Animals
9
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
10
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
11
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
12
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Red Bucket Equine Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Local History MuseumsPolicy Research and AdvocacyChristian Missionary Organi…Community Arts CentersDomestic Violence ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterYouth Development CentersEquine Therapy ProgramsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Community FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr17%16%10–20yr13%35%20–35yr11%23%35–55yr24%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr17%30%10–20yr13%21%20–35yr11%18%35–55yr24%30%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/125
the rest of the field
13%
4,627/36,275

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

115 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. 115 of the 273 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)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
113/115
Grantees still filing
77/115
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Land Trust for Tennessee — $149,500 · OtherLand Trust for TennesseeTennessee State Museum — $29,000 · OtherTennessee State MuseumBattle Of Franklin Trust - Battlefield Reclamation — $25,000 · OtherBelmont Mansion- Enslavement Gallery Exhibit — $20,000 · Other+151 more — $315,610 · Other+151 moreBATTLE OF FRANKLIN TRUST INC — $90,350 · Arts & CultureBATTLE OF FRANKLIN TRU…TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $51,350 · Arts & CultureTENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM…NASHVILLE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION — $9,000 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO — $8,460 · Arts & Culture+19 more — $27,416 · Arts & Culture+19 moreWELLS COLLEGE — $104,000 · EducationWELLS COLLEGEBRIGHTSTONE INC — $5,450 · Education+5 more — $3,250 · EducationTHE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC — $12,200 · EnvironmentHARPETH CONSERVANCY — $12,000 · EnvironmentFRANKLINS CHARGE INC — $8,000 · EnvironmentRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND — $2,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF FRANKLIN PARKS INC — $24,150 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC — $1,100 · Recreation & SportsHARD BARGAIN MT HOPE REDEVELOPMENT INC — $21,350 · Housing & ShelterDoor Step Project — $750 · Housing & ShelterCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL ON AGING OF GREATER NASHVILLE DBA AGE WELL MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $1,000 · Human ServicesMID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY — $500 · Human ServicesSheep Dog Impact Assistance — $500 · Human Services+2 more — $650 · Human Services
Other$539,110Arts & Culture$186,576Education$112,700Environment$36,200Recreation & Sports$25,250Housing & Shelter$22,100Human Services$12,650

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetWELLS COLLEGE — $104,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBATTLE OF FRANKLIN TRUST INC — $90,350 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetTENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $51,350 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF FRANKLIN PARKS INC — $24,150 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetHARD BARGAIN MT HOPE REDEVELOPMENT INC — $21,350 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC — $12,200 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHARPETH CONSERVANCY — $12,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNASHVILLE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO — $8,460 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRANKLINS CHARGE INC — $8,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetBRIGHTSTONE INC — $5,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRIPPAVILLA INC RIPPAVILLA PLANTATION — $3,850 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNASHVILLE ZOO INC — $3,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $3,596 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPULL-TIGHT PLAYERS INC — $3,170 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLeadership Middle Tennessee Inc — $3,150 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $3,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPARK CENTER INC — $2,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust — $2,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC — $2,075 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRANKLIN TOMORROW INC — $1,750 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $1,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIST ART MUSEUM — $1,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNOVA UKRAINE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAZOM INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WATER PROJECT INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC — $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBELMONT MANSION ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AGING OF GREATER NASHVILLE DBA AGE WELL MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDIO TENN THEATRE COMPANY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGES OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAMSON COUNTY CASA INC — $850 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNOLENSVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDoor Step Project — $750 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NEWBURGH INC — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNashville Symphony Association — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSheep Dog Impact Assistance — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTIST GUILD OF NOLENSVILLE INC — $500 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $400 over 1y, 0.1% 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 WELLS COLLEGE
  • Who funds BATTLE OF FRANKLIN TRUST INC
  • Who funds TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF FRANKLIN PARKS INC
  • Who funds HARD BARGAIN MT HOPE REDEVELOPMENT INC
  • Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC
  • Who funds HARPETH CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC
  • Who funds NASHVILLE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO
  • Who funds FRANKLINS CHARGE INC
  • Who funds BRIGHTSTONE INC
  • Who funds RIPPAVILLA INC RIPPAVILLA PLANTATION
  • Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN41.9× affinity29 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Ebs Foundation · The Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc 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 Pam Lewis 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Pam Lewis Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Pam Lewis 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 273 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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