· Private foundation
Thackston Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMPOWER ME CENTER | $25,000 |
| LEBANON FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| WILSON COUNTY BLACK HISTORY COMMITTEE | $10,000 |
| JOSEPH'S STOREHOUSE FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| LEBANON FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| HEIGHTS NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| LEBANON-WILSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| LEBANON FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $3,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| GALLATIN CARES | $2,000 |
| CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CUCUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +116%
- EMEMPOWER ME CENTER A NONPROFIT CORPORATION5× · 2020–2025 · $37k · revenue +101%
- HNHEIGHTS NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- GFGALLATIN FIRST METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $10k
- GSGALLLATIN SCOUT TROOP #4007one grant, 2023 · $3k
- TCTENNESSEE CONFERENCE METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Chatham university prepares women and men to be world ready: to build lives of purpose and value and fulfilling work. (see continuation on schedule o)in addition to appropriate professional skills and liberal arts learning, chatham…
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
Fort Loudoun Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…
University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
A.T. Still University of Health Sciences serves as a learning-centered university dedicated to preparing highly competent professionals through innovative academic programs. The University is committed to continuing its osteopathic…
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…
The university is a comprehensive university affiliated with the south carolina baptist convention offering bachelors, masters, and doctorate degrees. located on approximately 398 acres in the upstate region of south carolina near the…
To promote interest in, knowledge of, and appreciation for north carolina history and culture through historical preservation, library service, and perpetuation of state literary and cultural heritage.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tennessee Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is Gallatin Cares. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 27 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER ME CENTER A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HEIGHTS NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WILSON COUNTY BLACK HISTORY COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds GALLATIN CARES ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
- Who funds SALVUS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Goodall Family Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Thackston Family 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.
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.