· Private foundation
The Haslam 3 Foundation Inc
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 $10k2 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+11 grants · $20M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY | $6,300,598 |
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM | $3,000,000 |
| EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION | $2,065,000 |
| THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $2,000,000 |
| CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND | $2,000,000 |
| CITY FUND | $1,323,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TN FOUNDATION | $1,010,000 |
| PELETONIA | $1,000,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM | $250,000 |
| THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| MARYVILLE COLLEGE | $200,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCAT | $200,000 |
| GLOBAL AMBASSADORS LANGUAGE ACADEMY | $200,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 10 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; $3.6M 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
- LPLAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY6× · 2017–2024 · $27M · revenue +87% · 75% of their budget
- EYEMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $18M · revenue +28% · 70% of their budget
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +178%
Funded once
- UOUNIV OF TN COLLEGE OF BUSINESSone grant, 2017 · $900k
- FFFOOD FIX CAMPAIGN INCone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -25%
- TDTHE DREXEL FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +76%
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.
The cleveland transformation alliance (cta) is a trusted community partner working to ensure every student is engaged in a high-quality, equitable education. the cta gives families and students the information they need to commit to their…
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The mission of the university of toledo foundation is to secure the future for the university of toledo, through prudent asset management and philanthropy. we build strong linkages between alumni and the university, fostering a spirit of…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Center city public charter schools (center city pcs) empowers our students for lifelong success by building strong character, promoting academic excellence, and generating public service throughout washington, d.c.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
See Disclosure Above.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Diverse Charter Schools Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Drexel Fund. 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 30 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 75 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 LAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METRO EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds CITY FUND ↗
- Who funds HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds KNOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TNACHIEVES ↗
- Who funds EMERALD CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds Thomas B Fordham Institute ↗
- Who funds FOOD FIX CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds THE DREXEL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL LANGUAGE AMBASSADORS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MARYVILLE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO 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: Bill and Crissy Haslam Foundation · Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · East Tennessee Foundation · Gates Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · The Charlie & Moll Anderson Foundation · The Clayton Family Foundation · The Boyd Foundation · Lawson Family Foundation · The Clayton Homes Foundation · United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc
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 Haslam 3 Foundation Inc 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.
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