Tennessee · Private foundation
Yow Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $36k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,116
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations Yow Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $36k | 59% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $20k | 41% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $18k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $33k | 48% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $45k | 73% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $17k | 73% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $19k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $11k | 75% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loaves and Fishes of Clarksville | $8,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Clarksville Christian School Inc | $4,021 | 7 | 0% |
| Yaipak | $2,850 | 5 | 0% |
| Montgomery County Veterans Coalition | $2,150 | 3 | 2% |
| Young Life | $1,758 | 3 | 0% |
| Clarksville Police Union | $1,400 | 3 | 1% |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $1,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Freed-Hardeman University | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity | $807 | 2 | 0% |
| Radical Mission Inc | $750 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loaves and Fishes of Clarksville | $8,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Clarksville Christian School Inc | $4,021 | 7 | 0% |
| Yaipak | $2,850 | 5 | 0% |
| Montgomery County Veterans Coalition | $2,150 | 3 | 2% |
| Young Life | $1,758 | 3 | 0% |
| Clarksville Police Union | $1,400 | 3 | 1% |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $1,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Freed-Hardeman University | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity | $807 | 2 | 0% |
| Radical Mission Inc | $750 | 1 | 1% |
| Winters Angels | $550 | 1 | n/a |
| Lylewood Christian Camp | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Butterfly Moments Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Hope Pregnancy Support Center | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Operation Stand Down Tennessee | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Dyslexia Association of the Pennyrile | $500 | 1 | 1% |
| Cunningham Volunteer Fire Department Inc | $350 | 2 | n/a |
| Lifepoint Church | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| Power and Grace Preparatory Academy Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $105 | 1 | 0% |
| Alzheimers Tennessee Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 64 recipients with no EIN on record ($173k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Yow Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Veterans United Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · American Snuff Charitable Trust · Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Yow Foundation Inc
- How much does Yow Foundation Inc give?
- Yow Foundation Inc reported 22 grants totaling $36,153 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Yow Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (31%), Housing & Shelter (19%), Membership Benefit (11%).
- Who are Yow Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Loaves and Fishes of Clarksville ($8k), Clarksville Christian School Inc ($4k), Yaipak ($3k).
- Does Yow Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Yow Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Yow Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Veterans United Foundation, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, American Snuff Charitable Trust.
- Where is Yow Foundation Inc based?
- Yow Foundation Inc is based in TN.
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