Haslam Family Foundation

• The Haslam Family Foundation gives preference to organisations in East Tennessee, so fit with that priority area matters.
• It operates by invitation only and does not accept unsolicited requests, so a small charity should not send in a cold proposal; the filing does describe a written request format (stating amount and purpose, with recent audited financial statements and a copy of the tax-exempt ruling) and deadlines of 31 May and 30 November, which would apply once invited to apply.
• Request size should be modest: about eight in ten of its 86 grants to organisations fall between $5,000 and $500,000, and the median grant was $25,000, with half of its 86 grants at $25,000 or less, though the largest grant on record was $2,500,000.
• The foundation looks relationship-led rather than open to newcomers in the ordinary sense, as 87% of its grant dollars went to organisations it had also funded in its prior two filings.
• Its funding has covered general operating support most often, alongside education funds, scholarships, a music endowment, affordable housing and library projects, across schools and universities, churches, health and social-service providers, youth organisations, arts and cultural bodies, and food banks.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• University of Tennessee Foundation · School of music gala
  $2,500,0002024 tax year
• Saint John's Cathedral · General operating support
  $900,0002024 tax year
• Tennessee State Collaborative On Reformin · General operating support
  $800,0002024 tax year
• Interfaith Health Clinic · Donation
  $500,0002024 tax year
• Emerald Youth Foundation · General operating support
  $500,0002024 tax year
• Younglife Knoxville · General operating support
  $500,0002024 tax year
• United Way of Greater Knoxville · General operating support
  $334,0002024 tax year
• Great Smoky Mountain Institute · Payment on verbal pledge & two table sponsorships
  $324,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.