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Ty & Julann Warren Family 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.

$222k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
28
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 18
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$4.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Ty & Julann Warren Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving28$222k46%
FY202418$123k33%
FY202312$104k42%
FY202215$106k80%
FY20219$28k89%
FY202010$44k50%
FY201912$30k83%
FY20184$17k50%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$346kHuman Services$129kEducation$87kHousing & Shelter$25kHealth$23kCommunity Improvement$17kPhilanthropy$16kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
CA
UT
CO
NE
VA
TN
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 34 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($202k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ty & Julann Warren Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSymphony of the Mountains: $135,895 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetBarter Foundation Inc State Theatre of Virginia: $105,200 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetIsaiah 117 House: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAfrica Harvest of Hope Inc: $45,720 over 7y, 7.4% of budgetFamily Promise of Bristol Inc: $24,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetDoves of Big Bear Valley Inc: $19,900 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSteven G Mihaylo Big Bear High School Education Foundation: $16,333 over 1y, 10% of budgetUnited Way of Bristol Tn-Va Inc: $15,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAppalachian Sustainable Development: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLighthouse Project Inc: $10,100 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetBear Valley Community Healthcare District Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Hasty Pudding - Institute of 1770 Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMotion Picture and Television Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAppalachian Literacy Initiative: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBig Bear Theatre Project Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetBig Bear Ski Educational Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWilliam King Museum of Art: $3,309 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAcademy of Strings: $3,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRocky Mount Historical Association: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Adoption Project Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTheatre Bristol Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Bristol Public Library Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetArts Alliance Mountain Empire: $932 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Australian Association: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Los Angeles Free Clinic: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSmiles for Life Foundation: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVista del Mar Child and Family Services: $207 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

The James W and Frances Gibson McGlothlin FoundationVA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The James W and Frances Gibson McGlothlin Foundation · The Joe W and Frankie Mae Street Foundat · Clarke Charitable Foundation · The United Company Foundation · Williams-Berry Charitable Foundation · The McGlothlin Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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Find your warmest path to Ty & Julann Warren Family Foundation 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.

About Ty & Julann Warren Family Foundation

How much does Ty & Julann Warren Family Foundation give?
Ty & Julann Warren Family Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $221,798 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Ty & Julann Warren Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (50%), Human Services (19%), Education (13%).
Who are Ty & Julann Warren Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Symphony of the Mountains ($136k), Barter Foundation Inc State Theatre of Virginia ($105k), Isaiah 117 House ($50k).
Does Ty & Julann Warren Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ty & Julann Warren Family 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 Ty & Julann Warren Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The James W and Frances Gibson McGlothlin Foundation, The Joe W and Frankie Mae Street Foundat, Clarke Charitable Foundation.
Where is Ty & Julann Warren Family Foundation based?
Ty & Julann Warren Family Foundation is based in TN.

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 74 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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