· Public charity
The Snedeker Foundation
The mission of THE SNEDEKER FOUNDATION is to help underprivileged children accross the country, but particularly in the middle tennessee area with an emphasis on encouraging success in the classroom and in their respective sports.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $146,164 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $151,164 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $83k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION | $63,500 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $25,000 |
| ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FIRST RESPONDERS CHILDRENS FOUNDATI | $22,664 |
| OUR KIDS | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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 +56% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- TGTENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $393k · revenue +119%
- AJAmerican Junior Golf Association Inc4× · 2018–2022 · $120k · revenue +37%
- OKOUR KIDS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $114k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- NCNASHVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INCone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +23%
- CBCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +8%
- LOLOVE ONE INTERNATIONALone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -10%
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.
To provide an amateur junior golf association where the best junior golfers in the country could compete on some of the best courses and to bring awareness and support other organizations in the fight against pediatric diseases.
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.
To promote worldwide interest in the game of women's professional golf. primary activities include sanctioning and administering golf tournaments and providing education and certification opportunities for individuals in the golf industry.
The org. is a section of the united states tennis assoc. and is dedicated to carrying out the goals of the national assoc. within its region, particularly with respect to promoting tennis opportunities for juniors and adults of all…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
One child global's mission is to advocate for children in hard places and provide holistic care so they have hope and thrive. onechild global's 355 hope centers provide holistic child development progress in nineteen countries.
The organization was formed to 1) foster and promote national and international amateur tennis competition and develop amateur athletes for that competition by providing instruction and equipment; 2) promote the sport of tennis to…
To inspire, empower and transform the lives of girls and women through the game of golf.
To promote and expand community awareness of the game of golf in texas through programs serving junior golfers and the community at large.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The mission of the scga junior golf foundation is to develop an inclusive golf community that enables kids to thrive on and beyond the course. we believe that every kid in southern california, no matter their circumstance, should have the…
To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is National Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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.
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 TENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Junior Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds National Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds PRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Shark Shootout Charities Inc ↗
- Who funds USTA TENNESSEE ACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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 · The 1944 Foundation Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Pga Tour Inc · Servant Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Snedeker 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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