· Private foundation
The Evelyn S & Jim Horne Hankins Fnd
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEBANON SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER | $15,000 |
| WILSON COUNTY SCHOOLS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER | $15,000 |
| EMPOWER ME DAY CAMP | $15,000 |
| TENNESSEE BAPTIST ADULT HOME | $10,000 |
| WILSON BOOKS FROM BIRTH | $10,000 |
| WILSON COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM | $10,000 |
| BROOKS HOUSE | $10,000 |
| SHERRY'S HOPE | $5,000 |
| REHAB 23 | $5,000 |
| WILSON RIDES INC | $5,000 |
| MEN OF VALOR | $5,000 |
| LEBANON FUMC- FRIENDS OF MUSIC | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER CHATTANOOGA | $5,000 |
| WILSON COUNTY COMMUNITY HELP CENTER | $5,000 |
| CEDARCROFT HOME | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $192k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- EMEMPOWER ME CENTER A NONPROFIT CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +13%
- WCWILSON COUNTY BUSINESS AND EDUCATION COALITION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +32%
- HFHabitat for Humanity8× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +158%
Funded once
- HJHARRY J FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -72%
- UWUnited Way of Wilson County & the Upper Cumberlandone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -10%
- ECETHOS CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
To prepare and deliver nutritious meals to incapacitated senior citizens and,if appropriate, other homebound or disabled people in the kingsport, tn area.
Build stronger communities and improve health outcomes for marginalized populations through paid training programs and apprenticeship training opportunities.
Building homes working families can afford. We are dedicated to: providing new, affordable homes to residents in the South Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee; preparing future and current homeowners to both acquire and maintain a safe and…
Our Mission at Welcome House Knoxville is to share the love of Jesus through the ministries of hospitality and friendship. We provide safe and loving homes for individuals and families in transition to permanent housing.
To improve the quality of medical care.
Provide assistance to those experiencing homelessness through emergency, temporary, transitional, and permanent housing solutions.
To make charitable grants to qualifying individuals and organizations that will be used exclusively to meet the needs of Hardin Conunty, Tennessee residents and surrounding counties and national charities.
To assist persons with intellectual disabilities and other disabilities live in the community in such a way that there is an acceptable balance between their opportunities to experience a lifestyle meaningful to themselves and the risks…
The we care mission is to serve economically disadvantaged residents of rhea county, tn by enabling them to help themselves. (offering a hand up not a hand out)
Seeking to put Gods love into action, Holston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Harry J Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
26 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. 26 of the 50 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 EMPOWER ME CENTER A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WILSON COUNTY BUSINESS AND EDUCATION COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds WILSON COUNTY COMMUNITY HELP CENTER ↗
- Who funds CEDARCROFT HOME INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER CH ↗
- Who funds WILSON RIDES INC ↗
- Who funds SHERRY'S HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Compassionate Hands Inc ↗
- Who funds National Ataxia Foundation Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Nashville Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds WILSON COUNTY CHRISTMAS FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds MID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY-TENNESSEE DISTRICT KIWANIS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Lebanon Senior Citizens Center ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT INC ↗
- Who funds MEN OF VALOR ↗
- Who funds BUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Precision Rubber Products Foundatio · United Way of Wilson County & the Upper Cumberland · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Robert E & Jenny D Kirkland Foundation · Purity Foundation · Servant Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 Evelyn S & Jim Horne Hankins Fnd 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.
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.