· Private foundation
The Harrison-Robbie Dearing Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARPETH HILLS CHURCH | $36,000 |
| GOD'S WORD FOR WARRIORS | $15,000 |
| TIMOTHY HILLS CHILDRENS RANCH | $15,000 |
| LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY | $8,250 |
| FREED HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| SHRADER LANE CHURCH OF CHRIST | $5,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| MISSION LAZURUS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| TENNESSEE RESETTLEMENT AID | $5,000 |
| GREAT CITIES ROAD MISSION | $5,000 |
| FAITH FAMILY MEDICAL | $3,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $3,000 |
| TN PRISION OUTREACH MINISTRY | $3,000 |
| LIPSCOMB ACADEMY | $3,000 |
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, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 13% 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.
27 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 12 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- LULIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $253k · revenue +44%
- THTIMOTHY HILL CHILDREN'S RANCH INC6× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +112%
- EENTRYWAY3× · 2021–2023 · $8k · revenue +216%
Funded once
- HCHILLSBORO CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $6k
- TPTENNESSEE PRISON OUTREACH MINISTRY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +166%
- ECEH CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
Christ-centered school educating children of diverse racial & socioeconomic backgrounds by establishing a biblical worldview & preparing each child to flourish academically, emotionally, socially & spiritually.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…
Is to provide educational opportunities for gifted students who have limited academic experiences and resources but unlimited potential for leadership in society.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Christian Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Franklin Light Opera. 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 38 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 8% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 82 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 LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TIMOTHY HILL CHILDREN'S RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GODS WORD FOR WARRIORS ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds ENTRYWAY ↗
- Who funds BEAUMONT RETIREMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE RESETTLEMENT AID ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE PRISON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TENWEK INC ↗
- Who funds Rochester Christian University ↗
- Who funds OPERATION ANDREW GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds FREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HIGH HOPES INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING HANDS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds FISK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
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: Stephens' Christian Trust · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Ezell Foundation Inc · Washington Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Servant Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving 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 Harrison-Robbie Dearing 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.
- Trinity College — 0% 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.