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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
FATHER VINCENT CAPODANNO HIGH SCHOOL$25,000
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY$25,000
WOODMONT CHRISTIAN CHURCH$20,000
WONDERFULLY MADE MINISTRY$15,000
ENSWORTH SCHOOL$11,000
REFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP$10,000
LOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL$10,000
GILDA'S CLUB$10,000
NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION$10,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$10,000
DANITA'S CHILDREN MEDICAL CENTER INC$10,000
CAF AMERICA$10,000
CORNER TO CORNER$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
KY
VA
AZ
TN
NC
MS
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
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.

04Its field

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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cumberland Heights Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 57 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.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTHE PROMISE TOUR DBA BLAKE MCMEANS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetNever Alone Widows Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% 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 budgetCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOUR KIDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The 1944 Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The 1944 Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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