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The Barbara J Mapp Foundation at a glance

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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.

$157k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$622kEnvironment$508kHuman Services$210kRecreation & Sports$95kHealth$69kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $145k
$7,700
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$20,500
WALDEN'S PUDDLE$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
THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS$500
LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE$500
PEPPERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY$500
ALMOST HOME ANIMAL SHELTER$500
THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY$500
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WAR DOGS - MAKING IT HOME: $500 → 14%War Dogs - Making it Home: $500 → 14%THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $26k → 14%THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $26k → 14%THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $26k → 14%THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $25k → 14%THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $25k → 14%THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $25k → 14%THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $25k → 14%THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $21k → 14%THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $500 → 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

IL
WI
MI
CA
CO
KY
VA
TN
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 31 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
10

Total granted

$1.5M
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+77%

Still filing today

77%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEnvironmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • TC
    THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $198k · revenue +189%
  • SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $154k · revenue +55%
  • OH
    OWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $132k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE CONSERVATION OF COASTAL BIRDS
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • AG
    ABE'S GARDENgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +77%
  • BR
    BONAPARTES RETREATgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +107%
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
Tennessee River Rescues

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

Animals
2
Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley Inc

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.

Animals
3
Harmony Wildlife Rehabilitation Center

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…

Animals
4
Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Inc

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,…

Animals
5
For Fox Sake Wildlife Rescue

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…

Animals
6
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

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.

Animals
7
Noahs Ark Animal Homestay Inc

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…

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8
Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Animals
9
Spca of Tennessee

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…

Animals
10
Carolina Tiger Rescue

Carolina tiger rescue's mission is saving and protecting wildcats in captivity and in the wild.

Animals
11
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
12
Noah's Ark Animal Rehabilitation Center and Sanctuary Inc

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.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee; 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.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 42 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
25/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $154,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERAGAPE ANIMAL RESCUE: $124,000 · OtherAGAPE ANIMAL RESCUEThe Nature Conservancy: $111,500 · OtherThe Nature ConservancyFriends of Warner Park: $20,000 · Other+11 more: $42,128 · Other+11 moreOWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARY: $132,280 · AnimalsOWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARYNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $89,488 · AnimalsNASHVILLE ZOO INCPET COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $74,000 · AnimalsPET COMMUNITY CENTER INCWALDENS PUDDLE WILDLIFE REHABILITATION & EDUCATIO: $65,500 · AnimalsWALDENS PUDDLE WILDLIFE REHAB…THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $20,500 · Animals+10 more: $14,500 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE: $112,400 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF RADNOR…HARPETH CONSERVANCY: $109,500 · EnvironmentHARPETH CONSERVAN…THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC: $17,000 · EnvironmentTHE LAND TRUST FO…+1 more: $1,500 · EnvironmentTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $197,500 · Human ServicesTHE CROSSROADS…+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesHORSE HAVEN OF TENNESSEE INC: $77,945 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $71,607 · Recreation & SportsGREENWAYS FOR NASHVILLE INC: $3,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $500 · Recreation & SportsSADDLE UP: $68,777 · HealthABE'S GARDEN: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$451,628Animals$396,268Environment$240,400Human Services$198,500Youth Development$77,945Recreation & Sports$75,107Health$68,777Housing & Shelter$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $197,500 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $154,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetOWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARY: $132,280 over 9y, 4.9% of budgetAGAPE ANIMAL RESCUE: $124,000 over 9y, 17% of budgetFRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE: $112,400 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetHARPETH CONSERVANCY: $109,500 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $89,488 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHORSE HAVEN OF TENNESSEE INC: $77,945 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetPET COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $74,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $71,607 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSADDLE UP: $68,777 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetWALDENS PUDDLE WILDLIFE REHABILITATION & EDUCATIO: $65,500 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $20,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC: $17,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetABE'S GARDEN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWAYS FOR NASHVILLE INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRAPTOR EDUCATION GROUP INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAppalachian Black Bear Rehabilitation and Release Center Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWARDOGS-MAKING IT HOME INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetInstitute for Wildlife Studies: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEPPERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBONAPARTES RETREAT: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTENNGREEN LAND CONSERVANCY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPAWSTER NASHVILLE: $500 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • 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 WARDOGS-MAKING IT HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds Institute for Wildlife Studies ↗
  • Who funds PLACING PAWS OF ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds PEPPERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds BONAPARTES RETREAT ↗
  • Who funds TENNGREEN LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗

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…Hca Healthcare Founda…The Wade-Buntin Famil…The Steven & Laurie E…The Frist FoundationAndrea Waitt Carlton …Dorothy Cate and Thom…Msb Cockayne Fund IncAnne Bransford Wallac…Carolyn Smith Foundat…Ebs FoundationMemorial Foundation I…
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN31.1× affinity15 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 · 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

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 Barbara J Mapp Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Barbara J Mapp Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 Barbara J Mapp Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Barbara J Mapp Foundation 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 42 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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