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Tibbals Foundation at a glance

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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.

$571k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$212k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$407kPhilanthropy$282kReligion$165kHealth$82kEducation$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $469k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CIRCUS RING OF FAME FOUNDATION$10,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF LAFOLLETTE$10,000
RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN$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
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DENISON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $7k → 11%RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $10k → 9%RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART: $292k → 10%Carson Newman University: $10k → 11%NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION EAST TENNE: $212k → 12%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF LAFOLLETTE: $10k → 20%Scott Christian Care Center: $1k → 22%Denison Education Foundation: $3k → 11%SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $30k → 9%RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART: $66k → 10%KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART: $2k → 12%The Circus Arts Conservatory: $5k → 9%RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 10%United Way of Greater Knoxville: $25k → 12%The Circus Arts Conservatory: $5k → 9%RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 10%United Way of Greater Knoxville: $25k → 12%The Circus Arts Conservatory: $5k → 9%RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART: $4k → 10%United Way of Greater Knoxville: $20k → 12%CIRCUS RING OF FAME FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART: $4k → 10%Interfaith Health Center Inc: $50k → 12%First Sarasota: $122k → 9%First Sarasota: $12k → 9%First Sarasota: $12k → 9%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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$774k · 6 repeat orgs$346k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$774k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+1%

Still filing today

33%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $282k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • RM
    RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART
    6× · 2020–2025 · $381k
  • WH
    West Hills Baptist Church
    3× · 2023–2025 · $155k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2023–2025 · $146k

Funded once

  • IH
    INTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +15%
  • CU
    CARSON-NEWMAN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -16%
  • DE
    Denison Education Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
2
Barton College

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…

Education
3
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
4
Kentucky College of Art 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.

Education
5
The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art Foundation Incorporated

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Augustana College

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…

Education
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.

Arts & Culture
9
Acadia General Hospital Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
10
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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11
Carleton College

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…

Education
12
Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 18 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
3/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART: $380,744 · OtherRINGLING MUSEUM OF ARTNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION EAST TENNE: $212,345 · OtherNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION EAST TENNEWest Hills Baptist Church: $154,500 · OtherWest Hills Baptist ChurchIndividual grant recipient: $146,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC: $70,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC+3 more: $20,500 · OtherINTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER: $50,000 · HealthSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Health+2 more: $2,223 · HealthTHE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC: $15,000 · EducationRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $10,000 · EducationCARSON-NEWMAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationDENISON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $7,000 · EducationTHE CIRCUS RING OF FAME FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureKNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART: $1,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$984,089Health$82,223Education$42,000Arts & Culture$11,500

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC: $70,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetINTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARSON-NEWMAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCOTT CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER: $1,223 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 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.

Bill and Crissy Hasla…Natl Christian Charit…Raymond James Charita…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Bill and Crissy Haslam FoundationTN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Tibbals Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tibbals Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%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
    3get no government money at all
    4report 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.

    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 18 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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