· Private foundation
Violet Hampton Tuw #2
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT KNOXVILLE | $14,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | $4,000 |
| BELMONT UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| EAST TN UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| LEE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA | $2,000 |
| ALABAMA A AND M UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| AUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| MIAMI UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| CAROLINA UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 3 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LULIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +26%
- MUMILLIGAN UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2024 · $12k · revenue +48%
- BUBelmont University2× · 2024–2025 · $8k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT MARTINone grant, 2022 · $5k
- TUTHE UNVERSITY OF ALABAMAone grant, 2019 · $5k
- ETEAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 66 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗
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- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
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- Who funds BRYAN COLLEGE ↗
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- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
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- Who funds CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
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: Tulsa Community Foundation · Educational Funding of the South Inc · Folds of Honor Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Violet Hampton Tuw #2 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Violet Hampton Tuw #2. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 26% of income from government
How this is measured
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