Tennessee · Private foundation
Thackston Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $104k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Thackston Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 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 | 11 | $104k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $29k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $37k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $29k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $50k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $35k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $57k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $11k | 50% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cumberland University | $94,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Empower Me Center a Nonprofit Corporation | $37,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Heights National Alumni Association | $22,000 | 7 | 9% |
| Appalachian Trail Conservancy | $18,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Wilson County Black History Committee | $12,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Gallatin Cares | $5,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Colel Chabad | $3,500 | 2 | n/a |
| International Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Salvus Center Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Tennessee Wildlife Federation Inc | $300 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cumberland University | $94,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Empower Me Center a Nonprofit Corporation | $37,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Heights National Alumni Association | $22,000 | 7 | 9% |
| Appalachian Trail Conservancy | $18,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Wilson County Black History Committee | $12,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Gallatin Cares | $5,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Colel Chabad | $3,500 | 2 | n/a |
| International Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Salvus Center Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Tennessee Wildlife Federation Inc | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Tennessee Historical Society | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Emory University | $250 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($168k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Thackston Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Goodall Family Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Thackston Family Foundation
- How much does Thackston Family Foundation give?
- Thackston Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $103,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Thackston Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), Religion (19%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Thackston Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cumberland University ($94k), Empower Me Center a Nonprofit Corporation ($37k), Heights National Alumni Association ($22k).
- Does Thackston Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thackston Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Thackston Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Memorial Foundation Inc, The Goodall Family Foundation.
- Where is Thackston Family Foundation based?
- Thackston Family Foundation is based in TN.
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