· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- SSTARTone grant, 2021 · $10k
- ALALICE LLOYD COLLEGEgraduatedone 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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
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.
- Community Assistance Network Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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