· Private foundation
The Barbara J Mapp Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k10 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WALDEN'S PUDDLE | $20,500 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $20,500 |
| OWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARY | $16,780 |
| HORSE HAVEN OF TENNESSEE | $16,700 |
| FRIENDS OF WARNER PARKS | $15,582 |
| HARPETH CONSERVANCY | $15,500 |
| AGAPE ANIMAL RESCUE | $15,000 |
| NASHVILLE ZOO | $13,935 |
| FRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE | $10,500 |
| SADDLE UP | $7,700 |
| TENNGREEN LAND CONSERVANCY | $500 |
| NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY | $500 |
| THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS | $500 |
| PET COMMUNITY CENTER | $500 |
| PEPPERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $199k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
31 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- TCTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS9× · 2017–2025 · $198k · revenue +189%
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $154k · revenue +55%- OHOWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARY9× · 2017–2025 · $132k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- TSTHE SOUTHERN AFRICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE CONSERVATION OF COASTAL BIRDSone grant, 2018 · $15k
- AGABE'S GARDENgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +77%
- PNPAWSTER NASHVILLEone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +24%
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.
we exist to spay and neuter unwanted pets in our local area trying to find them a home to thrive in until the end of their time
Humane society of the tennessee valley, inc. is dedicated to providing lifesaving programs and resources to enrich the lives of people and companion animals in the communities we serve.
Harmony wildlife's mission is to care for tennessees orphaned and injured wildlife. we provide a temporary place for animals to mature or recover with the goal of release into their natural habitats. we believe that helping humans…
Dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and release of orphaned, injured and displaced wildlife. wildlife rescue rescues and cares for all wildlife, including native and nonnative species believing all animals are deserving of care,…
Our goal is to rescue and provide care to orphaned and injured native wildlife in the state of Tennessee with a focus on rabies vector species We also provide education to the public via social media and our non-releasable ambassador…
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
Noah's Ark Animal Homestay Inc. is organized exclusively for public charitable purposes for the prevention of cruelty and rescue to animals. The organization is not-for-profit and obtained 501(c)(3) status from the IRS in 2022. We are…
Our mission at the SPCA of Tennessee is to provide and promote the resources and programs needed to help animals in the state. Helping pets in need through our fostering program adoption, education, rehabilitation, spay and neuter and the…
Carolina tiger rescue's mission is saving and protecting wildcats in captivity and in the wild.
The rescue and rehabilitation of exotic wildlife and domestic animals. the animal sanctuary is an american exotic animal rescue and wildlife center for abused, unwanted, and neglected animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee and the most unlike its peers is Wardogs-Making It Home Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
30 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. 30 of the 42 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 THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds OWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds AGAPE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE ↗
- Who funds HARPETH CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds HORSE HAVEN OF TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds PET COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds SADDLE UP ↗
- Who funds WALDENS PUDDLE WILDLIFE REHABILITATION & EDUCATIO ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds ABE'S GARDEN ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GREENWAYS FOR NASHVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds RAPTOR EDUCATION GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Black Bear Rehabilitation and Release Center Inc ↗
- Who funds GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds PLACING PAWS OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds Institute for Wildlife Studies ↗
- Who funds PEPPERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds WARDOGS-MAKING IT HOME INC ↗
- Who funds PAWSTER NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds BONAPARTES RETREAT ↗
- Who funds TENNGREEN LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
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 · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Andrea Waitt Carlton Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc · Anne Bransford Wallace Foundation · Carolyn Smith Foundation · Ebs Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc
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 Barbara J Mapp 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.
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