· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| African American Heritage Society | $3,000 |
| Tennessee State Museum | $3,000 |
| African American Heritage Association | $2,000 |
| Lundeen Sculptures Ltd - Ben Franklin Sculpture | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Belmont Mansion Association - Spring Event 2025 | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,250 |
| Williamson County Historic Society | $1,000 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +40% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BOBATTLE OF FRANKLIN TRUST INC8× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +3%
- FOFRIENDS OF FRANKLIN PARKS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +324%
- HBHARD BARGAIN MT HOPE REDEVELOPMENT INC7× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +242%
Funded once
- BOBattle Of Franklin Trust - Battlefield Reclamationone grant, 2023 · $25k
- BMBelmont Mansion- Enslavement Gallery Exhibitone grant, 2021 · $20k
- AAAfrican American Heritage Foundation - AI Williams Houseone grant, 2024 · $15k
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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.
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…
The mission of the Tennessee Aquarium is to connect people with nature and empower them to make informed decisions about water and wildlife.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
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."
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).
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
How this is measured
115 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. 115 of the 273 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pam Lewis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pam Lewis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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