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The Sixteen 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $386k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDDLE TENNESSEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $385,660 |
| CAMP SHILOH | $50,000 |
| RENEW | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MURFREESBORO INNER-CITY MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| STANDING STONE STATE PARK | $10,000 |
| THE JOURNEY HOME MURFREESBORO | $10,000 |
| ASCENSION ST THOMAS RUTHERFORD | $5,000 |
| BARNABAS VISION | $5,000 |
| EUGENE CHURCH OF CHRIST | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF RUTHERFORD | $4,000 |
| NORTH BOULEVARD CHURCH OF CHRIST | $3,000 |
| GREEN HOUSE MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| RUTHERFORD COUNTY LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| MURFREESBORO DISCOVERY CENTER | $50 |
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 (FY17–25, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- MTMIDDLE TENNESSEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +184%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +19%
- TBTHE BARNABAS VISION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $67k · revenue +182%
Funded once
- AIADVENTURES IN MISSIONS INCone grant, 2019 · $30k
- RCRUTHERFORD COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -65%
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKone grant, 2018 · $12k
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.
The journey home is a christian ministry whose primary focus is to serve the homeless and disadvantaged of rutherford county, tn. providing practical resources and relationships that encourage faith, economic stability, wholeness, and…
To equip men to initiate and lead for christ in their homes, churches, communities and the marketplace.
To provide guidance and rehabilitation in a christ centered residential setting for persons with addiction
To provide a positive and safe living environment for hurting, abused, neglected and at-risk children placed privately and by the north carolina department of social services
Crossroads combines innovative clinical counseling with a redemptive worldview to restore people to emotional health, relational unity, and a hopeful future.
Yfc reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other likeminded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…
Advancing the kingdom of god and spreading the gospel through preaching, teaching, and evanelizing.
Making Biblical counseling from licensed mental health professionals accessible to anyone who has need regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay.
To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.
To provide medical care to the uninsured.
Yfc reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other likeminded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…
Operation of a daycare program for children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greenhouse Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 39 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 MIDDLE TENNESSEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds THE BARNABAS VISION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds GREENHOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital ↗
- Who funds RUTHERFORD COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RUTHERFORD CTY ↗
- Who funds LAST CALL 4 GRACE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Child Advocacy Center ↗
- Who funds DOORS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITY CIRCLE OF MURFREESBORO ↗
- Who funds THE TIMOTHY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MURFREESBORO FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIAT ↗
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: John D Floyd Charitable Foundation Inc · Coggin Family Foundation · Christy-Houston Foundation Inc · Twelve Stone Health Partners Foundation a Reeves Company · Adams Family Foundation I · Charity Circle of Murfreesboro · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Burgess Family Charitable · Jennings & Rebecca Jones Foundation Inc · Adams Family Foundation II · Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Sixteen 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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