· Private foundation
The James W Pickle Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of THE JAMES W PICKLE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $117k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $157k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $97,283 |
| ASCENSION SAINT THOMAS MISSION & MINISTRY | $60,000 |
| SHRINER'S HOSPITALS | $40,000 |
| AMPUTEE BLADE RUNNERS | $35,000 |
| HEAR NASHVILLE | $25,000 |
| SURGERY CENTER OF CARMEL | $17,000 |
| MIRACLE FLIGHTS | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $294k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% 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.
22 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 2 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k 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
- ABAmputee Blade Runners7× · 2018–2024 · $195k · revenue +19%
- HNHEAR NASHVILLE8× · 2017–2024 · $180k · revenue +58% · 33% of their budget
- THTUCKER'S HOUSE4× · 2017–2020 · $45k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- UHUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS CLEVELAND MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2023 · $37k
- TFTHE FOUNDATIONS OF ST THOMASone grant, 2021 · $32k
- OKOUR KIDS CENTERone grant, 2017 · $18k
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.
Hearts for hearing advocates for, educates about, and innovatively provides comprehensive, life-changing hearing healthcare for all ages.
To actively seek employment for individuals with psychological or physical disabilities.
Achievable health's mission is to provide high-quality healthcare to our community, with a specialty in treating individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
Our mission is to empower people with disabilities and their families to grow, develop, and thrive by providing essential skill-building, therapeutic, and recreational programs.
Hear Your Song empowers children and teens living with serious illnesses and complex health needs to make their voices heard through collaborative songwriting. At the heart of our work is a "kid-driven," totally individualized process that…
Ulps exists to support the missions of university of tennessee health science center and le bonheur children's hospital to provide high quality patient care, education, research and advocacy. ulps will collaborate with patients and their…
The professional, scientific, and credentialing association for clinical and research based audiologists and speech-language pathologists. empowering and supporting speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and speech, language, and…
Transform lives of children who are deaf or hard of hearing, teaching them to listen, speak, and learnthrough proven spoken language and cognitive development curriculum, family centered education andinnovative technology.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
Shriners children's is committed to compassionate, high-quality care that improves children's lives, in a family-centered and collaborative environment. (continued on schedule o)
Hearing health foundation's mission is to prevent and cure hearing loss and tinnitus through groundbreaking research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lakeshore Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hear Nashville. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 45 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 Amputee Blade Runners ↗
- Who funds HEAR NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds TUCKER'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds ABE'S GARDEN ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE FLIGHTS ↗
- Who funds OUR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Songs for Sound Inc ↗
- Who funds Able Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN HATCHER FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC CANCER ↗
- Who funds Hope for Justice Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Dugas Family Foundation II Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Ransom Charitable Trust · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · Christopher Reeve Foundation · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 James W Pickle Charitable Foundation 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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