Tennessee · Public charity
The Dollywood Foundation
To share the life and legacy of dolly parton as an inspiration to all children to dream more, learn more,care more and be more.
- $534k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $400k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $400,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 5
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $68M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Dollywood Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 1 | $400k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $50k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $100k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $218k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $511k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $1.3M | 0% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $941k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Tough Recovery Team | $2,000,000 | 2 | 51% |
| Mountain Ways Inc | $400,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Sevier County Fire Cheif's Associat | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Smoky Mountain Area Rescue Ministries Inc | $199,509 | 2 | 12% |
| Sevier County Food Ministries | $175,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Helen Ross McNabb Center Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The George and Barbara Bush Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Malibu Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 4% |
| First Book | $90,750 | 1 | 0% |
| United Way of Humphreys County | $50,000 | 1 | 19% |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Tough Recovery Team | $2,000,000 | 2 | 51% |
| Mountain Ways Inc | $400,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Sevier County Fire Cheif's Associat | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Smoky Mountain Area Rescue Ministries Inc | $199,509 | 2 | 12% |
| Sevier County Food Ministries | $175,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Helen Ross McNabb Center Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The George and Barbara Bush Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Malibu Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 4% |
| First Book | $90,750 | 1 | 0% |
| United Way of Humphreys County | $50,000 | 1 | 19% |
| Appalachia Service Project Inc | $48,750 | 1 | 0% |
| Douglas Cherokee Economic Authority Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
The Dollywood Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Dollywood Foundation
- How much does The Dollywood Foundation give?
- The Dollywood Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $400,000, out of $534,375 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Dollywood Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (66%), Youth Development (11%), Health (9%).
- Who are The Dollywood Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mountain Tough Recovery Team ($2.0M), Mountain Ways Inc ($400k), Sevier County Fire Cheif's Associat ($200k).
- Does The Dollywood Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Dollywood Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Dollywood Foundation based?
- The Dollywood Foundation is based in TN.
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