· Private foundation
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 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 $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 |
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 (FY17–25, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 39 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sixteen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sixteen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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