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The Haslam 3 Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Haslam 3 Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$21M
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$6.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$42MRecreation & Sports$27MYouth Development$18MHealth$11MPhilanthropy$9.3MArts & Culture$2.6MCommunity Improvement$1.9MEnvironment$1.0MOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+11 grants · $20M
$200,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$89M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GLOBAL AMBASSADORS LANGUAGE ACADEMY$200,000
MARYVILLE COLLEGE$200,000
THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION$200,000
FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCAT$200,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $25k → 17%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

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
OR
OH
CO
AR
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$101M · 40 repeat orgs$5.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
23

Total granted

$101M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+7%

Still filing today

70%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • LP
    LAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $27M · revenue +87% · 75% of their budget
  • EY
    EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $18M · revenue +28% · 70% of their budget
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +178%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIV OF TN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
    one grant, 2017 · $900k
  • TD
    THE DREXEL FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +76%
  • FF
    FOOD FIX CAMPAIGN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -25%
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
Cleveland Municipal School District Transformation

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…

Education
2
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
3
Chicago Public Education Fund

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.

Education
4
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
The University of Toledo Foundation

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…

Education
7
The Common Application Inc

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…

Education
8
Center City Public Charter Schools

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.

Education
9
Furman University

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.

Education
10
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
11
University of New Haven

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…

Education
12
Lehigh University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Diverse Charter Schools Coalition Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/52
Grantees still filing
34/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $11,592,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE…FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $9,150,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCH…METRO EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $1,500,000 · EducationMETRO EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SC…PELOTONIA: $1,000,000 · Education+16 more: $4,055,215 · Education+16 moreLAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY: $27,030,947 · Recreation & SportsLAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY+1 more: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND: $8,200,000 · PhilanthropyCHARTER FUND INC D…COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $5,500,000 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS FOUNDATIO…THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEVELAND FOUN…UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $1,349,166 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREA…CITY FUND: $1,323,000 · PhilanthropyCITY FUND+2 more: $440,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM: $7,525,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY HOSPITAL…FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCAT: $2,100,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR EXCE…Individual grant recipient: $1,495,000 · OtherIndividual grant re…GLOBAL LEADERSHIP NETWORK: $1,300,000 · OtherGLOBAL LEADERSHIP N…TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM: $1,250,000 · OtherTENNESSEE STATE MUS…AFC GROWTH FUND: $1,100,000 · OtherAFC GROWTH FUNDUNIV OF TN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS: $900,000 · OtherWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $1,000,000 · Other+29 more: $3,189,100 · Other+29 moreEMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION: $17,966,257 · Youth DevelopmentEMERALD YOUTH FOU…HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION: $1,299,999 · HealthUNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $340,000 · HealthUntold Inc: $100,000 · Health+2 more: $25,500 · HealthThe Musical Arts Association: $1,225,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $30,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$27,297,715Recreation & Sports$27,040,947Philanthropy$18,812,166Other$19,859,100Youth Development$17,966,257Health$1,765,499Arts & Culture$1,255,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY: $27,030,947 over 6y, 75% of budgetEMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION: $17,966,257 over 8y, 70% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $11,592,500 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $9,150,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND: $8,200,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $5,500,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetMETRO EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $1,500,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $1,349,166 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetCITY FUND: $1,323,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION: $1,299,999 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $1,225,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPELOTONIA: $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $1,000,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $700,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKNOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $623,275 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetTNACHIEVES: $525,000 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetEMERALD CHARTER SCHOOLS: $510,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS: $400,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC: $380,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $340,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThomas B Fordham Institute: $325,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetTHE DREXEL FUND: $250,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetFOOD FIX CAMPAIGN INC: $250,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetTHE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND: $200,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetGLOBAL LANGUAGE AMBASSADORS ACADEMY: $200,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetMARYVILLE COLLEGE: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $160,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWEBB SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE: $155,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $117,415 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF CHATTANOOGA PREP INC: $115,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetUntold Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeartland Forward Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSoliya Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL CHOICE OHIO INC: $35,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetDIVERSE CHARTER SCHOOLS COALITION INC: $34,525 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTENNESSEE RESIDENCE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRAINBOW BABIES & CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUE JACKSON FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetESPERANZA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBACKFIELD IN MOTION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% 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 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 THE DREXEL FUND ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FIX CAMPAIGN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL LANGUAGE AMBASSADORS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds MARYVILLE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO INC ↗

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.

Bill and Crissy Hasla…Stowers Machinery Fou…Haslam Family Foundat…East Tennessee Founda…Gates FoundationWalton Family Foundat…The Charlie & Moll An…The Clayton Family Fo…The Boyd FoundationLawson Family Foundat…The Clayton Homes Fou…United Way of Greater…
Bill and Crissy Haslam FoundationTN28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Haslam 3 Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Haslam 3 Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Haslam 3 Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Haslam 3 Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 75 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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