· Private foundation
Yow Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Department of Children Services | $12,116 |
| Loaves and Fishes | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,091 |
| CCC Ladies Golf Association | $2,000 |
| Burns | $1,600 |
| Department of Childrens Services | $1,336 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,300 |
| Customs House Museum | $1,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters | $1,000 |
| Middle TN Friends of Scouting | $1,000 |
| CMCSS Education Foundation | $1,000 |
| Clarksville Christian School | $721 |
| Veterans of Foreign Wars | $600 |
| Winters Angels | $550 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +100% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 13 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- LALOAVES AND FISHES OF CLARKSVILLE4× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +546%
- CCCLARKSVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC7× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +242%
- YYAIPAK5× · 2018–2024 · $3k · revenue ×62
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $11k
- BABoys and Girls Club of MOCOone grant, 2022 · $5k
- AAGAPEone grant, 2023 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
To operate exclusively for charitable purposes, specifically to relieve the poor, distressed, and underprivileged by providing free nutritious food, meals and essential resources to individuals and families experiencing homelessness or…
Provide a house which includes rent, electricity, water, phone and maintenance for women and children who are victims of domestic abuse
The organization is a Christ-centered ministry that meets the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of hurting people in the greater Lexington area. Its activities are focused on rebuilding lives.
Charleston southern university (csu) is a private, four-year co-educational institution organized under the laws of the state of south carolina as a non-profit organization and sponsored by the south carolina baptist convention. the…
To evangelize and disciple men who happen to be prisoners and former inmates
Our focus is on at-risk men and women who served others through military service. Our mission is to meet each hero where they are in their walk with Christ, love them as Christ calls us to, provide basic needs for daily life and Biblical…
To provide free food to homeless, veterans, and others
Clarks summit university is a fully accredited, christ-centered educational institution located in a suburban area of the scranton/wilkes-barre, pa metropolitan area. outstanding biblical higher education is offered through on-campus,…
We hold it to be the mission of the church to proclaim the gospel to all mankind, to exalt the worship of the one true god, and to labor for the progress of knowledge, the promotion of justice, the reign of peace, and the realization of…
To provide food and clothing for the residents in madison, tennessee and surrounding davidson county residents that are in need. we also provide sack lunches to the homeless in the area.
The mission of powerhouse ministries is to teach the gospel through speaking engagements and worship, personal ministry and help to the poor and needy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Butterfly Moments Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 85 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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
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 Yow Foundation Inc 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.
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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