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Haslam Family Foundation Inc

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.

$8.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$46MYouth Development$12MArts & Culture$9.2MHealth$7.5MPhilanthropy$5.6MReligion$3.0MPublic Benefit$2.8MRecreation & Sports$2.3MOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $223k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $900k
  • $250k+10 grants · $6.9M
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION$2,500,000
ST JOHN'S CATHEDRAL$900,000
TENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMIN$800,000
EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION$500,000
YOUNGLIFE KNOXVILLE$500,000
INTERFAITH HEALTH CLINIC INC$500,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLE$334,000
GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE$324,000
BIG EARS FESTIVAL$300,000
HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER$250,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLE$200,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST TENNESSE$150,000
WEBB SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE$100,000
HORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATION$100,000
LEADERSHIP KNOXVILLE$100,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TENNESSEE KIDS BELONG: $20k → 4%PENULTIMATE DEVELOPMENT: $50k → 11%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF THE CUMBERLANDS: $13k → 22%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 14%TENNESSEE KIDS BELONG: $13k → 4%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF THE CUMBERLANDS: $13k → 22%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF THE CUMBERLANDS: $13k → 22%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF THE CUMBERLANDS: $13k → 22%EMORY VALLEY CENTER INC: $25k → 13%EMORY VALLEY CENTER INC: $25k → 13%EPISCOPAL RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT: $3k → 17%COMMUNITY BUILDING INSTITUTE: $10k → 12%CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $13k → 12%CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $13k → 12%CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $13k → 12%CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $13k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $40k → 14%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $20k → 14%FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE: $20k → 14%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $20k → 14%RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE: $313k → 12%RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE: $163k → 12%RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE: $163k → 12%RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE: $100k → 12%RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE: $75k → 12%RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE: $13k → 12%KOINONIA FOUNDATION TENNESSEE: $10k → 12%KOINONIA FOUNDATION TENNESSEE: $10k → 12%HARMONY FAMILY CENTER INC: $25k → 12%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE: $125k → 12%KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE: $50k → 12%KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE: $50k → 12%KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE: $42k → 12%KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE: $42k → 12%KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE: $42k → 12%KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE: $25k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$91M · 117 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

117 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 89 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

117
77

Total granted

$91M
$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+46%

Still filing today

79%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $37M · revenue +178%
  • EY
    EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $6.4M · revenue +28%
  • TS
    TENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $2.8M · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • BS
    BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TRUST
    one grant, 2021 · $1.1M
  • HH
    HIRE HEROES USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +284%
  • Feeding Americagraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +77%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Knoxville Academy of Medicine

The academy serves as the local medica society for physicians of knox county and surrounding counties in east tennessee. its purpose is to afford a medium for free discussion and exchange of ideas among physicians.

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2
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
3
Knox Housing Partnership Inc

To provide affordable housing to low and moderate income persons in east tennessee through first-time homebuyer education; assist with mortgage loans, downpayments, and closing costs; build new single family housing; develop multi-family…

Housing & Shelter
4
United Way of South Central Tennessee

The united way of south central tennessee's mission is to improve lives by advancing opportunities for education, health, and financial stability for all. its vision is to be the primary community solutions leader for human services.

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5
Kings Academy Nashville

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.

Education
6
The Muse Knoxville

To inspire and empower all children through transformative learning experiences. our vision is to make our community the best place for all to learn through the power of play.

Arts & Culture
7
Knoxville Christian School

Educate preschool through twelfth grade children in a Christian environment while developing them spiritually,academically, emotionally, and physically with Jesus Christ as their standard and the Bible as their foundation.

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8
University School of Nashville

University school of nashville models the best educational practices. in an environment that represents the cultural and ethnic composition of metropolian nashville. usn fosters each student's intellectual, artistic, and athletic…

Education
9
Tennessee Health Care Association

To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.

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10
Tennessee Electric Cooperative Assoc

To provide information, services, and support to the interests of rural electric cooperatives in tennessee.

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11
Knoxville Academy of Medicine Foundation

To provide no-cost health care to families who have no insurance and do not qualify for the states low income insurance program.

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12
Knoxville Botanical Gardens and Arboretum

Knoxville botanical gardens and arboretum provides and maintains gardens for the benefit and enjoyment of the general public.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Tennessee Foundation and the most unlike its peers is East Knox Free Medical Clinic Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChattanooga Community Devel…Land & Parks ConservationYouth Development Organizat…Health Philanthropy & Fundi…Civic Education and AdvocacyNashville Education SupportArts & Cultural ProgrammingEducation Support Organizat…Community Health CentersDisability Community Living…Regional Community Organiza…Youth Sports LeaguesFood Pantries & Basic Assis…Fraternal Service Organizat…Knoxville Community Leaders…Independent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr21%12%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr13%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr21%8%10–20yr19%66%20–35yr14%8%35–55yr13%18%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/163
the rest of the field
11%
3,905/34,184

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.

04the grantee network

152 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. 152 of the 198 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
142/152
Grantees still filing
113/152
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC — $36,768,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INCTENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION — $2,820,000 · EducationTENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION+27 more — $5,479,568 · Education+27 moreUNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC — $4,929,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEI…THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $4,500,000 · OtherTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONFIELDS OF DREAMS INC — $2,765,156 · OtherFIELDS OF DREAMS INCTENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMIN — $2,500,000 · OtherTENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON…ST JOHN'S CATHEDRAL — $2,344,619 · OtherST JOHN'S CATHEDRALBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TRUST — $1,130,000 · OtherKNOXVILLE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS INC — $1,480,000 · OtherKNOXVILLE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS INC+91 more — $7,753,344 · Other+91 moreEMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION — $6,410,000 · Youth DevelopmentEMERALD YOU…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL — $1,395,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRL…YOUNG LIFE — $1,050,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFEBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST TENNESSEE INC — $450,000 · Youth Development+5 more — $470,000 · Youth DevelopmentTENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $1,250,000 · Arts & CultureKNOXVILLE SYMPHONY SOCIETY INCORPORATED — $1,165,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION — $1,010,000 · Arts & CultureBIG EARS FESTIVAL — $975,000 · Arts & CultureEast Tennessee Historical Society Inc — $555,000 · Arts & CultureKNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART — $383,289 · Arts & CultureNashville Symphony Association — $285,000 · Arts & Culture+15 more — $742,000 · Arts & CultureINTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER — $635,000 · HealthHELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC — $560,000 · HealthEAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC — $420,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $392,000 · Health+15 more — $285,000 · HealthTHE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE — $825,000 · Human ServicesSOAR YOUTH MINISTRIES INC THRIVE LONSDALE — $540,000 · Human ServicesKNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED — $250,001 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC — $125,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE — $100,000 · Human Services+11 more — $305,121 · Human ServicesLAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY — $1,800,000 · Recreation & SportsWILLIAMS CREEK YOUTH FOUNDATION — $200,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK — $72,500 · Recreation & Sports+2 more — $70,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$45,068,068Other$27,402,119Youth Development$9,775,000Arts & Culture$6,365,289Health$2,292,000Human Services$2,145,122Recreation & Sports$2,142,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC — $36,768,500 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetEMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION — $6,410,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC — $4,929,000 over 7y, 9.1% of budgetTENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION — $2,820,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetFIELDS OF DREAMS INC — $2,765,156 over 4y, 50% of budgetLAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY — $1,800,000 over 3y, 75% of budgetKNOXVILLE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS INC — $1,480,000 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL — $1,395,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetTENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $1,250,000 over 3y, 38% of budgetKNOXVILLE SYMPHONY SOCIETY INCORPORATED — $1,165,000 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $1,050,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION — $1,010,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC — $995,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetBIG EARS FESTIVAL — $975,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetWEBB SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE — $850,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetTHE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE — $825,000 over 6y, 39% of budgetPELLISSIPPI STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $800,000 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetGREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS INSTITUTE INC — $695,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetINTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER — $635,000 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetALLIANCE FOR BETTER NONPROFITS — $575,000 over 3y, 45% of budgetHELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC — $560,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEast Tennessee Historical Society Inc — $555,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetSOAR YOUTH MINISTRIES INC THRIVE LONSDALE — $540,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION — $457,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST TENNESSEE INC — $450,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetMARYVILLE COLLEGE — $450,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC — $420,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY COALITION AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING — $416,666 over 4y, 26% of budgetSERTOMA CENTER INC — $400,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $392,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART — $383,289 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetTNACHIEVES — $300,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetNashville Symphony Association — $285,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CHANGE CENTER — $275,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL — $268,168 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLEADERSHIP KNOXVILLE INC — $265,400 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetTHE GREAT SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST — $262,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetEPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE — $256,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetKNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED — $250,001 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetWEST HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC COUNCIL — $250,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKNOX AREA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC — $200,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWILLIAMS CREEK YOUTH FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetFeeding America — $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY — $175,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKNOXVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $160,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetPINELLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC — $125,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
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 THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds FIELDS OF DREAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds KNOXVILLE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KNOXVILLE SYMPHONY SOCIETY INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG EARS FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds WEBB SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE ↗
  • Who funds THE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds PELLISSIPPI STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR BETTER NONPROFITS ↗
  • Who funds HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds East Tennessee Historical Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOAR YOUTH MINISTRIES INC THRIVE LONSDALE ↗
  • Who funds EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST TENNESSEE INC ↗
  • Who funds MARYVILLE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds EAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY COALITION AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING ↗
  • Who funds SERTOMA CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
  • Who funds KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds TNACHIEVES ↗
  • Who funds Nashville Symphony Association ↗
  • Who funds THE CHANGE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL ↗

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.

East Tennessee Founda…Bill and Crissy Hasla…Stowers Machinery Fou…The Clayton Homes Fou…United Way of Greater…The Clayton Family Fo…Trinity Health Founda…The Boyd FoundationLawson Family Foundat…University Health Sys…Gene & Florence Monda…Thompson Charitable F…
East Tennessee FoundationTN115.5× affinity61 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Tennessee Foundation · Bill and Crissy Haslam Foundation · Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc · The Clayton Homes Foundation · United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc · The Clayton Family Foundation · Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee · The Boyd Foundation · Lawson Family Foundation · University Health System Inc · Gene & Florence Monday Foundation Inc · Thompson Charitable Foundation

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 Haslam Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Root Ns Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
61report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Haslam Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Haslam Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 198 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines