· Private foundation
The Jack Runnion 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CATHEDRAL OF THE MOST SACRED HEART | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT INC | $8,333 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $5,333 |
| MAKE A WISH CENTRAL & WESTERN | $5,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $5,000 |
| SACRED HEART CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| 1907 FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| IN TOUCH MINISTRIES | $4,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF NC | $3,333 |
| INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION | $2,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST TENNESSEE | $1,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TAThe Arts Based School3× · 2018–2020 · $15k · revenue +80%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC2× · 2018–2025 · $13k · revenue +64%- ICINTERNATIONAL COMMISSION INC4× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- NCNC COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $13k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
- HOHOSPICE OF WINSTON-SALEMone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
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.
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.
To grow the capacity of people to become good stewards.
Knoxville Childrens Theatre, Inc. produces meaningful theatrical productions for children and families and serves the community through outreach and educational programs.
To provide high-quality musical presentations and educational programs in the chattanooga area
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
Communicate gospel by music and art
Crossroads combines innovative clinical counseling with a redemptive worldview to restore people to emotional health, relational unity, and a hopeful future.
Purpose is sending individuals around the world to win souls to jesus christ by preaching the gospel evangelism.
To put christian principles into practice through programs and activities that develop the spirit, mind and body of youth, adults and families in knoxville, tn and surrounding communities. the ymca encourages growth for youth development,…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 29 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 The Arts Based School ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Safe Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds Cord of 3 Strands Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE SYMPHONY SOCIETY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds YOUNG-WILLIAMS ANIMAL CENTER OF EAST TEN ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Aslan Foundation · Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Jack Runnion Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jack Runnion Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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