Tennessee · Private foundation
Tailgating for a Cause Inc
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.
- $35k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 6
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $93k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Tailgating for a Cause Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $35k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $51k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $37k | 80% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $34k | 83% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $33k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $38k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $13k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $18k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Williams Creek Youth Foundation | $107,100 | 6 | 2% |
| Cure Duchenne | $70,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Breakthrough Corporation D/B/A Autism Breakthrough of Knoxville | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Defeat Duchenne Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Breast Connect Inc | $7,665 | 2 | 3% |
| Bridge Refugee Services Inc | $4,260 | 1 | 0% |
| Sunshine Services | $3,075 | 3 | 0% |
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.
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: Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee · United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc · East Tennessee Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Tailgating for a Cause Inc
- How much does Tailgating for a Cause Inc give?
- Tailgating for a Cause Inc reported 4 grants totaling $35,060 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Tailgating for a Cause Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (42%), Health (41%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
- Who are Tailgating for a Cause Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Williams Creek Youth Foundation ($107k), Cure Duchenne ($70k), Breakthrough Corporation D/B/A Autism Breakthrough of Knoxville ($30k).
- Does Tailgating for a Cause Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tailgating for a Cause Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Tailgating for a Cause Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee, United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc, East Tennessee Foundation.
- Where is Tailgating for a Cause Inc based?
- Tailgating for a Cause Inc is based in TN.
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