· Private foundation
The James W Pickle Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 · 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 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 45 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 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 ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The James W Pickle Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The James W Pickle Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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