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The Troy Gentry Foundation Inc

The mission of the troy gentry foundation is to continue troy's personal beliefs: love god, love others.

$23k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$55kHealth$35kHousing & Shelter$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kEducation$13kPhilanthropy$10k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $20,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $22,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$490k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRISTMAS FOR KIDS$10,000
OPERATION WAKE SURF$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TJ MARTELL FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%THE JOURNEY HOME PROJECT: $15k → 7%VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER: $10k → 14%OPERATION WAKE SURF: $10k → 10%BREATHITT COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 30%TJ MARTELL FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%THE JOURNEY HOME PROJECT: $10k → 7%THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%RIVERSIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $10k → 30%MISSION POSSIBLE: $5k → 14%FRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY: $3k → 14%MAKE A WISH MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $15k → 14%MAKE A WISH MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$110k · 4 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +210% since the first grant, against +70% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$110k
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+210%
+70%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePublic BenefitRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CF
    CHRISTMAS FOR KIDS INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +34%
  • MP
    MISSION POSSIBLE
    2× · 2019–2020 · $30k · revenue +303%
  • TC
    THE CHARLIE DANIELS JOURNEY HOME PROJECT
    2× · 2019–2020 · $25k · revenue +210%

Funded once

  • RC
    RIVERSIDE CHRISTIAN TRAINING SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -36%
  • JC
    JACKSON CITY PARKS AND RECREATIONS
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • BC
    BREATHITT COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
2
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
3
Thompson Cancer Survival Center

Thompson Cancer Survival Center provides support services for cancer patients, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to…

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4
Middle Tennessee Research Institute

To facilitate innovative research and education, improve healthcare programs that benefit our nation's veterans, and provide outstanding support and advocacy to the research, education, and training endeavors of the tennessee valley…

Health
5
Middle Tennessee School of Anesthesia

To provide a christian, seventh-day adventist learning environment that fosters the pursuit of truth, excellence in and access to graduate nurse anesthesia education, and a life of service.

Education
6
Chattanooga Christian School Inc

To prepare students to lead and serve with distinction while representing christ and his kingdom in all areas of home, church, society and culture.

Education
7
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
8
Claiborne Medical Center

Claiborne Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
9
Carolina University

A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.

Education
10
Roane County Medical Center

Roane County Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
11
Crossroads Christian Academy Attn Lee Guetterman

Crossroads Christian Academy partners with parents to provide a Christ-Centered, college preparatory education where students are allowed to further develop their God-given talents and virtues and become college-worthy character witnesses…

Education
12
Campbell County Christian Academy Inc

To partner with families in providing students a christ-centered and academically challenging education equipping them with a biblical worldview as they grow in understandings, attitudes, skills, and in favor with god and man.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc; the most unlike its peers is Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TJ MARTELL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthTJ MARTELL FOUNDATIONVanderbilt University Medical Center: $10,000 · HealthVanderbilt University …CHRISTMAS FOR KIDS INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTMAS FOR KIDS …MISSION POSSIBLE: $30,000 · Arts & CultureMISSION POSSIBLETHE CHARLIE DANIELS JOURNEY HOME PROJECT: $25,000 · Public BenefitTHE CHARLIE DANI…JACKSON CITY PARKS AND RECREATIONS: $10,000 · OtherJACKSON CITY …BREATHITT COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherBREATHITT COU…RIVERSIDE CHRISTIAN TRAINING SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationFRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC: $2,500 · EducationOPERATION WAKE SURF: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Health$35,000Human Services$30,000Arts & Culture$30,000Public Benefit$25,000Other$20,000Education$12,500Recreation & Sports$10,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHRISTMAS FOR KIDS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetMISSION POSSIBLE: $30,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetTHE CHARLIE DANIELS JOURNEY HOME PROJECT: $25,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetTJ MARTELL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOPERATION WAKE SURF: $10,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetRIVERSIDE CHRISTIAN TRAINING SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Troy Gentry Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Troy Gentry Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Troy Gentry Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Troy Gentry Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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