· Private foundation
Thackston Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| LEBANON FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| JOSEPH'S STOREHOUSE FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| HEIGHTS NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| LEBANON-WILSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $3,000 |
| LEBANON FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $3,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY | $2,000 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CUCUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +116%
- EMEMPOWER ME CENTER A NONPROFIT CORPORATION5× · 2020–2025 · $37k · revenue +127%
- 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
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.
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.
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
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
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thackston Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thackston Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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