Tennessee · Private foundation
Thomas & Mamie Houser Charitable 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.
- $175k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 49
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Thomas & Mamie Houser Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 48 | $175k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $175k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $158k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $144k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $144k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $150k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $151k | 16% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $182k | 12% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preston Taylor Ministries | $335,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Oasis Center Inc | $204,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tn Inc | $127,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Nashville Food Project Inc | $82,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Westminster Home Connection | $65,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Harpeth Hall School | $62,100 | 9 | 0% |
| Nashville Tree Foundation | $48,250 | 9 | 4% |
| United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc | $43,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Nashville Zoo Inc | $25,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Room in the Inn Inc | $24,500 | 9 | n/a |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($242k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Thomas & Mamie Houser Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Enchiridion Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc · James R Meadows Jr Foundation
How this is measured
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About Thomas & Mamie Houser Charitable Foundation
- How much does Thomas & Mamie Houser Charitable Foundation give?
- Thomas & Mamie Houser Charitable Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $175,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Thomas & Mamie Houser Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (38%), Food & Nutrition (15%), Philanthropy (11%).
- Who are Thomas & Mamie Houser Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Preston Taylor Ministries ($335k), Oasis Center Inc ($204k), Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tn Inc ($128k).
- Does Thomas & Mamie Houser Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thomas & Mamie Houser Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Thomas & Mamie Houser Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation, Memorial Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc.
- Where is Thomas & Mamie Houser Charitable Foundation based?
- Thomas & Mamie Houser Charitable Foundation is based in TN.
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