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Vultee Charitable Foundation F/K/A Nashville Christian Towers

Providing housing to the elderly and disabled with low income.

$37M
Granted FY2023
17
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$356k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 17 grants below total $1,340,883 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $37,149,269 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,808,386 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $127k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $852k
  • $250k+1 grant · $356k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SIGNATRY$355,883
LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY$202,000
NOLEN HILLS CHURCH OF CHRIST$200,000
DONELSON CHURCH OF CHRIST$150,000
HEALING HANDS INTERNATIONAL$100,000
EKIPE HAITI$50,000
LEBANON ROAD CHURCH OF CHRIST$50,000
MARS HILL BIBLE SCHOOL$50,000
FAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CLINIC$50,000
THE LAKESHORE FOUNDATION$25,000
AGAPE$25,000
TENNESSEE PRISON OUTREACH MINISTRY$25,000
ARRINGTON CHURCH OF CHRIST$15,000
THE WORLD CONVENTION$12,500
WORLD CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING$12,500
02The need
02

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOME: $12k → 10%AGAPE: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Trinity Hope Inc

Teach christian beliefs and feed children in haiti.

International
2
Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion
3
Haiti Hope Mission Inc

To bring the message of jesus to haiti

Religion
4
Tennessee Health Care Association

To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.

5
Healing Waters International Inc

Healing waters international works to reduce water-related illness and death in developing countries by implementing sustainable projects and programs that make safe drinking water accessible to vulnerable communities and empower local…

International
6
Light From Light Inc

Light from light partners with local leaders to provide healthcare and nutrition for the most vulnerable communities in haiti. our vision is that no child ever dies from malnutrition. our three program focus areas are: 1) nutrition…

International
7
Houston Christian University

The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."

8
International Faith Missions

Aid to destitute in haiti

International
9
But God Ministries

Sharing the love of jesus christ by building sustainable communities around the world and providing medical care to low-income households in the united states. the organization is currently building two sustainable communities in haiti and…

International
10
Lifewater Inc

Lifewater international is a non-profit christian water development organization dedicated to effectively serving vulnerable children and families by partnering with underserved communities to overcome water poverty.

Environment
11
Trinity Christian Fellowship Inc

Gospel mission

Religion
12
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Association for Guidance Aid Placement and Empathy and the most unlike its peers is Healing Hands International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY — $202,000 · OtherLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITYNOLEN HILLS CHURCH OF CHRIST — $200,000 · OtherNOLEN HILLS CHURCH OF CHRISTDONELSON CHURCH OF CHRIST — $150,000 · OtherDONELSON CHURCH OF CHRISTLEBANON ROAD CHURCH OF CHRIST — $50,000 · OtherLEBANON ROAD CHURCH OF CHRISTMARS HILL BIBLE SCHOOL — $50,000 · OtherMARS HILL BIBLE SCHOOL+3 more — $33,500 · OtherServant Foundation — $355,883 · ReligionServant FoundationHEALING HANDS INTERNATIONAL INC — $100,000 · InternationalHILLSBORO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · HealthFAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC — $50,000 · HealthASSOCIATION FOR GUIDANCE AID PLACEMENT AND EMPATHY — $25,000 · Human ServicesTENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesTENNESSEE PRISON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC — $25,000 · Crime & LegalLAKESHORE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterWORLD CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION — $12,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$685,500Religion$355,883International$100,000Health$100,000Human Services$37,000Crime & Legal$25,000Housing & Shelter$25,000Arts & Culture$12,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetServant Foundation — $355,883 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY — $202,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALING HANDS INTERNATIONAL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHILLSBORO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetFAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTENNESSEE PRISON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLAKESHORE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR GUIDANCE AID PLACEMENT AND EMPATHY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION — $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Servant FoundationKS21.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Washington Foundation · Ezell Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Vultee Charitable Foundation F/K/A Nashville Christian Towers 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

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    How do I get to Vultee Charitable Foundation F/K/A Nashville Christian Towers?

    Find your warmest path to Vultee Charitable Foundation F/K/A Nashville Christian Towers 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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