How much does The Boyd Foundation give?

The Boyd Foundation reported 60 grants totaling $9,414,140 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 60 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does The Boyd Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (37%), Youth Development (9%), Philanthropy (9%).

Who are The Boyd Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: The University of Tennessee Foundation Inc ($8.6M), United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc ($2.2M), Girl Talk Inc ($1.0M).

Does The Boyd Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Boyd Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Boyd Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Tennessee Foundation, The Clayton Homes Foundation, Haslam Family Foundation Inc.

Where is The Boyd Foundation based?

The Boyd Foundation is based in TN.

Foundation Dossiers

Tennessee · Private foundation

The Boyd Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 60
Grants FY2024: 51
Organizations funded FY2023: 33%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $1,565,482
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 60; FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 4
Total assets, FY2024: $98M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations The Boyd Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	58	$9.3M	29%
FY2023	51	$4.9M	33%
FY2022	60	$3.5M	63%
FY2021	43	$7.5M	86%
FY2020	32	$1.6M	100%
FY2019	1	$25k	100%
FY2018	34	$850k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$10MYouth Development$2.6MPhilanthropy$2.4MArts & Culture$2.4MAnimals$1.7MHealth$1.7MRecreation & Sports$1.5MHousing & Shelter$1.1MOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The University of Tennessee Foundation Inc	$8,645,982	5	2%
United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc	$2,221,500	4	9%
Girl Talk Inc	$1,030,000	2	39%
Wesley House Community Center Co	$1,000,000	2	39%
Knox Education Foundation	$932,500	5	7%
Emerald Youth Foundation	$830,000	3	6%
Score International Inc	$600,000	4	3%
The Muse Knoxville	$515,000	3	16%
Metro Drug Coalition Inc	$500,000	1	27%
Helen Ross McNabb Foundation	$482,500	4	6%

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All grantees of The Boyd Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The University of Tennessee Foundation Inc	$8,645,982	5	2%
United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc	$2,221,500	4	9%
Girl Talk Inc	$1,030,000	2	39%
Wesley House Community Center Co	$1,000,000	2	39%
Knox Education Foundation	$932,500	5	7%
Emerald Youth Foundation	$830,000	3	6%
Score International Inc	$600,000	4	3%
The Muse Knoxville	$515,000	3	16%
Metro Drug Coalition Inc	$500,000	1	27%
Helen Ross McNabb Foundation	$482,500	4	6%
Big Ears Festival	$450,000	2	7%
Hometown Service Coalition	$400,000	1	31%
YWCA Knoxville Foundation	$400,000	1	31%
Seeed Inc	$288,139	3	34%
Knoxville Area Urban League Incorporated	$262,000	3	15%
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Vall	$252,000	4	1%
James Whites Fort	$250,000	1	64%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Tennessee Inc	$250,000	4	6%
Two Bikes	$245,147	3	23%
Random Acts of Flowers	$230,000	4	59%
Interfaith Health Center	$200,000	1	2%
Change Campus Culture	$194,246	1	90%
Hospitality Pantries Inc	$190,000	1	3%
Cumberland Communities Communications Corporation	$125,000	3	8%
Lipscomb University	$120,000	4	0%
Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts	$100,730	5	1%
Great Smoky Mountain Heritage Center	$100,000	1	14%
East Tennessee Technology Access Center Inc	$100,000	2	n/a
Roane State Community College Foundation	$100,000	1	2%
Beck Cultural Exchange Center Inc	$100,000	1	14%
Equal Chance for Education	$98,625	2	3%
Knoxville Symphony Society Incorporated	$95,000	3	1%
Junior Achievement of East Tenninc	$82,000	4	3%
Smoky Mountain Animal Care Foundation	$75,000	2	6%
Lakeshore Park Conservancy	$75,000	3	0%
Sunset Gap Community Center	$64,003	1	n/a
Junior Appalachian Musicians Inc	$61,190	2	15%
City of Jackson Tn	$58,000	2	n/a
Knoxville Entrepreneur Center	$50,000	1	5%
Volunteer Ministry Center	$50,000	2	1%
University of Chattanooga Foundation Inc	$50,000	1	0%
The Mend House Sober Living Community	$50,000	1	11%
Susannah's House Inc	$50,000	1	4%
Governor's Early Literacy Foundation	$50,000	1	0%
Museum of Appalachia	$47,500	1	6%
Leadership Knoxville Inc	$40,000	3	2%
Historic Rugby Inc	$36,000	1	n/a
Humane Society of Dickson County	$25,000	1	4%
Overton Park Conservancy	$25,000	1	1%
Park Partners	$25,000	1	n/a
City of Chattanooga	$25,000	1	n/a
Knoxville Dream Center	$25,000	1	5%
Companion Animal Rescue & Education	$25,000	1	n/a
City of Memphis	$25,000	1	n/a
Friends of Pickwick Landing State Park	$25,000	1	n/a
Cheatham County Animal Awareness Foundation	$25,000	1	37%
Petworks Animal Services Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Tennessee Financial Literacy Commission	$25,000	3	n/a
Keep Knoxville Beautiful Inc	$24,000	1	13%
Rotary Foundation of Knoxville	$22,500	4	4%
Johnson County Senior Center	$21,000	1	14%
Young-Williams Animal Center of East Ten	$20,000	1	0%
Bearden High School Foundation	$17,700	4	7%
Collegiate Abbey Inc	$10,000	1	5%
Sgt York Patriotic Foundation	$10,000	1	17%
The Dollywood Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Breaststrokes Knoxville Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
The Tuskegee Next Foundation	$5,000	1	1%
Tennesseans for Quality Early Education	$5,000	1	1%
Blood Cancer United Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Isaiah 117 House	$4,500	3	0%
Candoro Arts and Heritage Center	$3,500	1	24%
True Purpose Ministries	$3,000	3	0%
Special Spectators Inc	$1,500	1	n/a
Blue Monarch	$1,000	1	0%
Success Academy Charter Schools Inc	$1,000	1	0%
The Crossroads Campus	$500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 99 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.2M), not named here.

The Boyd Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 64.

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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.

East Tennessee FoundationTN59.3× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Tennessee Foundation · The Clayton Homes Foundation · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc · Bill and Crissy Haslam Foundation · The Aslan Foundation · The Clayton Family Foundation · Lawson Family Foundation · Akima Club Inc · University Health System Inc · United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc · Thompson Charitable Foundation

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.

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About The Boyd Foundation

How much does The Boyd Foundation give?: The Boyd Foundation reported 60 grants totaling $9,414,140 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 60 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does The Boyd Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (37%), Youth Development (9%), Philanthropy (9%).
Who are The Boyd Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: The University of Tennessee Foundation Inc ($8.6M), United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc ($2.2M), Girl Talk Inc ($1.0M).
Does The Boyd Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Boyd Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Boyd Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Tennessee Foundation, The Clayton Homes Foundation, Haslam Family Foundation Inc.
Where is The Boyd Foundation based?: The Boyd Foundation is based in TN.