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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.

$207k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$210kYouth Development$184kCrime & Legal$120kRecreation & Sports$95kEducation$93kHealth$92kArts & Culture$70kReligion$41kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $175k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Storehouse Food Pantry$20,000
Patriot Foundation$20,000
Dreambuilders Foundation$20,000
Refuge Center for Counseling$12,735
AHEAD with Horses$12,000
Healing House$10,000
Operation WARM$10,000
Autism Career Training$10,000
PMR Charity$10,000
Ashleys Place$10,000
Hope Cam$10,000
Renewal House$10,000
Sisters Against Domestic Violence$10,000
Center for Child and Family Health$10,000
AGAPE$6,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OPERATION WARM: $10k → 6%Tennessee Childrens Home: $5k → 10%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE NETWORK: $5k → 19%Operation WARM: $10k → 6%Operation WARM: $10k → 6%ABLE YOUTH: $10k → 4%ABLE YOUTH: $5k → 4%Refuge Center for Counseling: $13k → 4%REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING: $5k → 4%ABLE YOUTH: $5k → 14%ABLE YOUTH: $5k → 14%ABLE YOUTH: $5k → 14%WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER: $10k → 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

MT
MN
IN
OH
PA
CA
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
TN
NC
LA
AL
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$851k · 26 repeat orgs$239k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
19

Total granted

$851k
$168k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+58%

Still filing today

69%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • DF
    DREAMBUILDERS FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +63%
  • PF
    PATRIOT FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +44%
  • OW
    Operation Warm Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $56k · revenue +172%

Funded once

  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • S
    START
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • AL
    ALICE LLOYD COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +63%
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 Kids Belong Inc

Tennessee Kids Belong dramatically improves the experiences and outcomes for children in foster care.

Human Services
2
Kids Place a Child Advocacy Center

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.

Crime & Legal
3
Casa of Robertson County Inc

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.

Human Services
4
Casa of the Tennessee Valley

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.

Human Services
5
Greater Chattanooga Christian Services Inc

Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling

Human Services
6
Childrens Advocacy Center - Hope House

To provide a child-oriented, multidisciplinary forensice interview enviroment facility and counseling center for victims of abuse and their families.

Civil Rights
7
The Childrens House

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.

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8
The Child Advocacy Center of Anderson Co Tn

To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.

Human Services
9
Kids Hub

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.

Health
10
Casa of Northeast Tennessee

Advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.

Crime & Legal
11
Rahab House

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…

Human Services
12
Court Appointed Special Advocates

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.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tennessee Children's Home Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BE ABOUT CHANGE: $42,500 · OtherBE ABOUT CHANGEASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF COLUMBUS: $32,000 · OtherASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF COLUMBUSASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF NASHVILLE: $30,000 · OtherASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF NASHVILLEHOPECAM INC: $25,000 · OtherHOPECAM INCCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $20,000 · OtherST LUKES: $20,000 · OtherfestivALL: $20,000 · OtherTENNESSEE BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOMES INC: $20,000 · OtherPMR Charity: $16,000 · OtherAGAPE: $16,000 · OtherREFUGE CENTER: $15,000 · OtherSTOREHOUSE FOOD PANTRY: $20,000 · Other+21 more: $165,250 · Other+21 moreOperation Warm Inc: $56,000 · Human ServicesOperation Warm…Able Youth Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesAble Youth IncTHE REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING INC: $17,735 · Human ServicesTHE REFUGE CEN…TUCKER'S HOUSE: $13,000 · Human ServicesTUCKER'S HOUSEWEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesWEST NASHVILLE…TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ASSISTANCE NETWORK INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesDREAMBUILDERS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentDREAMBUILDERS…The FIND Design: $27,500 · Youth DevelopmentThe FIND Desi…ASHLEYS PLACE-SUMNER CHILD ADVOCACY: $48,000 · Crime & LegalASHLEYS PL…Center for Child and Family Health Inc: $30,000 · Crime & LegalCenter for…KIDSVOICE: $16,500 · Crime & LegalKIDSVOICESISTERS AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalSISTERS AG…PATRIOT FOUNDATION: $95,000 · Recreation & SportsPATRIOT F…Durham Colored Library Inc: $45,000 · EducationDurham Co…UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $40,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationALICE LLO…RENEWAL HOUSE INC: $40,000 · HealthRENEWAL H…STARS INC: $25,000 · HealthSTARS INCAHEAD WITH HORSES INC: $19,500 · HealthAHEAD WIT…COOKEVILLE REGIONAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthCOOKEVILL…
Other$441,750Human Services$136,735Youth Development$127,500Crime & Legal$104,500Recreation & Sports$95,000Education$95,000Health$89,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDREAMBUILDERS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetPATRIOT FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $56,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetASHLEYS PLACE-SUMNER CHILD ADVOCACY: $48,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetDurham Colored Library Inc: $45,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRENEWAL HOUSE INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCenter for Child and Family Health Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAble Youth Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF NASHVILLE: $30,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetThe FIND Design: $27,500 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetSTARS INC: $25,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHOPECAM INC: $25,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetAHEAD WITH HORSES INC: $19,500 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetTHE REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING INC: $17,735 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKIDSVOICE: $16,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTUCKER'S HOUSE: $13,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetDayspring Center Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPIC GIRL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetWEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSISTERS AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetCROSSROADS: $8,250 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetManna Ministries Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetCOOKEVILLE REGIONAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASSISTANCE NETWORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 Center for Child and Family Health Inc ↗
  • Who funds Able Youth Inc ↗
  • Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF NASHVILLE ↗
  • Who funds The FIND Design ↗
  • Who funds STARS INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPECAM 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 EPIC GIRL INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER ↗

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 Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN23.4× affinity11 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 · 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

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 Emmy Lou Tompkins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Emmy Lou Tompkins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Community Assistance Network Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 54 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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