· Private foundation
The Emmy Lou Tompkins 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Patriot Foundation | $20,000 |
| Dreambuilders Foundation | $20,000 |
| Storehouse Food Pantry | $20,000 |
| Refuge Center for Counseling | $12,735 |
| AHEAD with Horses | $12,000 |
| PMR Charity | $10,000 |
| Renewal House | $10,000 |
| Ashleys Place | $10,000 |
| Healing House | $10,000 |
| Hope Cam | $10,000 |
| Sisters Against Domestic Violence | $10,000 |
| Operation WARM | $10,000 |
| Autism Career Training | $10,000 |
| Center for Child and Family Health | $10,000 |
| AGAPE | $6,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
26 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 9 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
- DFDREAMBUILDERS FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +63%
- PFPATRIOT FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +44%
- OWOperation Warm Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $56k · revenue +172%
Funded once
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCYone grant, 2020 · $20k
- ALALICE LLOYD COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +63%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Tennessee Kids Belong dramatically improves the experiences and outcomes for children in foster care.
To reduce the trauma of child abuse by providing a child oriented environment for the coordinated and multi-disciplinary investigation, intervention, and treatment of child sexual and severe physical abuse.
To provide court-appointed special advocates to child victims of abuse and neglect. The programs vision is a safe, permanent, loving home for every child it serves.
The mission of the organization is to provide a powerful voice for abused and neglected children by advocating for each child, within the court's jurisdiction, in order to ensure safety, permancy and an opportunity to thrive.
Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling
To provide a child-oriented, multidisciplinary forensice interview enviroment facility and counseling center for victims of abuse and their families.
To reduce trauma to children who have experienced abuse as well as their families by providing a safe and supportive environment through a collaboration of community agencies.
To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.
The mission is to provide services to victims of child abuse and their non-offending caregivers through the use of advocacy, education, prevention and referrals for appropriate services.
Advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.
Rahab House is deeply committed to the rescue, refuge, and restoration of human trafficking survivors. We provide comprehensive support that encompasses immediate safety and connections to long-term restorative care in alignment with the…
To be the voice for children who have been victims of abuse and/or neglect. Our vision is to serve every child in the Cheaha Region by providing them with a caring and competent trained volunteer.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tennessee Children's Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is Manna Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 5% 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 54 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 DREAMBUILDERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds ASHLEYS PLACE-SUMNER CHILD ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds Durham Colored Library Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds RENEWAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Able Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds Center for Child and Family Health Inc ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds The FIND Design ↗
- Who funds HOPECAM INC ↗
- Who funds STARS INC ↗
- Who funds STOREHOUSE FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds AHEAD WITH HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds THE REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds KIDSVOICE ↗
- Who funds TUCKER'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Dayspring Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SISTERS AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER ↗
- Who funds EPIC GIRL INC ↗
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 · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Joe C Davis Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Servant Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Emmy Lou Tompkins 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.
- Community Assistance Network Inc — 7% of income from government
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.