· Private foundation
The Huffaker Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH | $150,000 |
| ISAIAH 117 HOUSE | $50,000 |
| STREET HOPE TN | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,800 |
| THE UNITED VETERANS COUNCIL OF EAST TENNESSEE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,091 |
| AUSTIN EAST HIGH SCHOOL KNOX TN | $3,500 |
| YOUNG LIFE KNOXVILLE | $1,500 |
| EMORY VALLEY CENTER | $1,000 |
| NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $500 |
| CARTER HIGH SCHOOL | $250 |
| CLAXTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO | $225 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $233k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AEAUSTIN EAST HIGH SCHOOL KNOX TN2× · 2023–2025 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2023–2024 · $11k
- TUTHE UNITED VETERANS COUNCIL OF EAST TENNESSEE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue -7%
Funded once
- CACHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLEone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +8%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $50k
- IHISAIAH HOUSEone grant, 2023 · $15k
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.
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.
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.
The Home was organized to provide for the health, welfare and benefit of children whose parents or guardians are unable to care for them. The Home offers residential care and onsite academic
By creating a safe and structured two year residential program the Hope House of Tennessee will aim to equip and empower personal and educational growth economic self-sufficiency and a deeper understanding of Christs unconditional love.
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 of students from preschool to 12th grade
Crossroads Christian Academy partners with parents to provide a Christ-Centered, college preparatory education where students are allowed to further develop their God-given talents and virtues and become college-worthy character witnesses…
We are a private educational facility providing educational services for grades pre-k through 12th grade.
An organization that exists among students in local schools to grow their christian faith and prepare them to share their faith in christ among their peers.
Daysprings Christian Academy is a christian school that provides low cost christian education.
Private Christian School Grades K - 12
Our mission is to train and equip students for life and for service to Jesus Christ through a Biblical worldview, character development, and academic excellence.
This mission of keystone christian academy - york is to maintain a school for children from pre-k through grade 12 with teachings based upon tenets of evangelical christianity and to maintain and do all action and things incident thereto.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 38 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
- Who funds STREET HOPE TN ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED VETERANS COUNCIL OF EAST TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC ANDERSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds EMORY VALLEY CENTER INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Huffaker Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Huffaker Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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