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The 1944 Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$424k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$1.7MReligion$433kHealth$294kHuman Services$177kScience & Tech$158kInternational$105kPhilanthropy$105kYouth Development$52kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $176k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $220k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC$110,000
OAK HILL SCHOOL$110,000
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY$25,000
FATHER VINCENT CAPODANNO HIGH SCHOOL$25,000
WOODMONT CHRISTIAN CHURCH$20,000
WONDERFULLY MADE MINISTRY$15,000
ENSWORTH SCHOOL$11,000
DANITA'S CHILDREN MEDICAL CENTER INC$10,000
CAF AMERICA$10,000
CORNER TO CORNER$10,000
LOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL$10,000
GILDA'S CLUB$10,000
REFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP$10,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$10,000
NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE FAMILY CENTER INC: $2k → 14%CORNER TO CORNER: $30k → 14%CORNER TO CORNER: $25k → 14%CORNER TO CORNER: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 24 repeat orgs$251k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
27

Total granted

$2.8M
$211k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+19%

Still filing today

75%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsArts & CultureReligionOther

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

  • TE
    THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +47%
  • OH
    OAK HILL SCHOOL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $435k · revenue +105%
  • DC
    DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $175k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • Vanderbilt University
    2× · 2021–2024 · $34k · revenue -1%
  • ST
    ST THOMAS HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -4%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist 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.

Health
2
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland 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 the patient's ability to pay.

Health
3
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

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…

Health
4
Thompson Cancer Survival Center

Thompson Cancer Survival Center provides support services for cancer patients, 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…

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5
Nuvance Health

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

Health
6
Austin Trinity School

Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…

Education
7
Claiborne Medical Center

Claiborne 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.

Health
8
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

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.

Health
9
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
10
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
11
Roane County Medical Center

Roane County 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.

Health
12
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cumberland Heights Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsSchool District FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Cancer Support ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Youth Sports ProgramsMilitary Veterans SupportHealth Access Advocacy and …United Way AffiliatesCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%5%<5yr14%7%5–10yr17%21%10–20yr13%16%20–35yr11%23%35–55yr24%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr17%11%10–20yr13%5%20–35yr11%10%35–55yr24%69%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/47
the rest of the field
13%
4,627/36,353

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 57 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
32/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL — $1,000,672 · EducationTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOLFATHER VINCENT CAPODANNO HIGH SCHOOL — $100,000 · EducationFATHER VINCENT CAPODANNO HIGH SCHOOLSouthern Methodist University — $75,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist University+5 more — $81,000 · Education+5 moreOAK HILL SCHOOL — $435,000 · OtherOAK HILL SCHOOLWOODMONT CHRISTIAN CHURCH — $290,000 · OtherWOODMONT CHRISTIAN CHURCHDAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC — $175,000 · OtherDAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INCIndividual grant recipient — $77,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $53,000 · Other+27 more — $307,375 · Other+27 moreVanderbilt University Medical Center — $148,500 · HealthCOLON CANCER COALITION INC — $20,000 · HealthUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $10,000 · Health+5 more — $22,000 · HealthMARTHA O'BRYAN FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $40,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $7,500 · PhilanthropyCorner To Corner — $65,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,500 · Human ServicesAfrican Leadership Inc — $45,000 · InternationalWONDERFULLY MADE MINISTRY FOR GIRLS CO DEEANN HODGE — $44,500 · Youth Development
Education$1,256,672Other$1,337,875Health$200,500Philanthropy$152,500Human Services$66,500International$45,000Youth Development$44,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL — $1,000,672 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetOAK HILL SCHOOL — $435,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetDAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC — $175,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $148,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFATHER VINCENT CAPODANNO HIGH SCHOOL — $100,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetSouthern Methodist University — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCorner To Corner — $65,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMARTHA O'BRYAN FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAfrican Leadership Inc — $45,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetWONDERFULLY MADE MINISTRY FOR GIRLS CO DEEANN HODGE — $44,500 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University — $33,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY — $20,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOLON CANCER COALITION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNever Alone Widows Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE PROMISE TOUR DBA BLAKE MCMEANS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetFISK UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEXT DOOR INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTERSTONE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR KIDS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS — $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE HEALING TRUST FORMERLY BAPTIST HEALING HOSPITAL TRUST — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER HOME CONNECTION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDELTA STREETS MINISTRIES INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHISBE AND NOAH SCOTT FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFRIST ART MUSEUM — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget6 8 FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Dorothy Cate and Thom…Memorial Foundation I…Hca Healthcare Founda…The Frist FoundationThe Hunt Family Found…The Rich FoundationLouise B Wallace Foun…Nashville Predators F…Raymond James Charita…Baird Foundation IncLouie M & Betty M Phi…
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN39.6× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Frist Foundation · The Hunt Family Foundation of Nashville · The Rich Foundation · Louise B Wallace Foundation 19702 · Nashville Predators Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn

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 The 1944 Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The 1944 Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The 1944 Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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