· Private foundation
Tibbals 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $469k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION EAST TENNE | $212,345 |
| Individual grant recipient | $122,000 |
| West Hills Baptist Church | $68,000 |
| RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART | $66,250 |
| SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| United Way of Greater Knoxville | $25,000 |
| RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN | $10,000 |
| CIRCUS RING OF FAME FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF LAFOLLETTE | $10,000 |
| DENISON EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| The Circus Arts Conservatory | $5,000 |
| 1907 FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART | $1,500 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN S FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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 +45% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 8 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $282k 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
- RMRINGLING MUSEUM OF ART6× · 2020–2025 · $381k
- WHWest Hills Baptist Church3× · 2023–2025 · $155k
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2023–2025 · $146k
Funded once
- IHINTERFAITH HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +15%
- CUCARSON-NEWMAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -16%
- DEDenison Education Foundationone grant, 2024 · $3k
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 organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The kentucky college of art and design opens the door to a creative and productive life through an undergraduate education in the contemporary arts.
The ringling is a place of art, architecture, and circus in an environment that inspires, educates, entertains, and honors the legacy of john & mable ringling.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Scott Christian Care Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 18 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 UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds CARSON-NEWMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds THE CIRCUS RING OF FAME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DENISON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SCOTT CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Bill and Crissy Haslam Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Tibbals 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, a single department, or state — 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.