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Christenberry-Anderson-Loomis Family

Nashville, TN · EIN 63-1205398. Reported 134 grants totalling $4,297,811 to 59 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$20,000median grant
$4,297,811granted, 2021-2025
59recipients, as named on its returns
69%of grantees funded again the next year
$12.2Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Christenberry-Anderson-Loomis Family did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $20,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $10,000 and $40,000; the smallest was $3,187 and the largest $175,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
5 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
12 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
61 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
24 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
23 grants
$100,000 and Up
9 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Lifeline Children's ServicesBirmingham, AL$520,000442025
International Justice MissionArlington, VA$503,650442025
Denver SeminaryLittleton, CO$225,000442025
Wellspring ChurchEnglewood, CO$210,000222025
Samford UniversityBirmingham, AL$203,988442025
Silver Bay YMCASilver Bay, NY$200,000442025
St George's Episcopal ChurchNashville, TN$169,562552025
Hello in There FoundationNashville, TN$150,000332025
Wellspring LivingEnglewood, CO$150,000222023
Southern Environmental Law CenterCharlottesville, VA$140,000332025
Medical Outreach MinistriesMontgomery, AL$135,000332025
World Central KitchenWashington, DC$125,000332025
Hope HealsAtlanta, GA$120,000442025
Send ReliefAlpharetta, GA$120,000332025
Athens Area Emergency Food BankAthens, GA$95,000442025
Children's HopeMontgomery, AL$90,000332025
Ady's Big ArmyBirmingham, AL$75,000332025
Montgomery Christian SchoolMontgomery, AL$70,000222025
Auburn University FoundationAuburn, AL$65,000442025
Scott Dawson Evangelical AssociationBirmingham, AL$65,000332025
3 Streams InstituteEnglewood, CO$60,000112024
Lake George Land ConservancyBolton Landing, NY$55,000442025
Nashville Symphony OrchestraNashville, TN$55,000332025
Baptist Healthcare FoundationMontgomery, AL$50,000442025
Uab Medical School Scholarship FundBirmingham, AL$47,500222025
Cornell Lab of OrnithologyIthaca, NY$44,800332025
Nashville Philharmonic OrchestraNashville, TN$42,500332025
Lake George AssociationLake George, NY$40,000332025
Bringing Good NewsBirmingham, AL$33,187442025
Faith RadioMontgomery, AL$30,000332025
Life on WheelsMontgomery, AL$29,562222022
Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River AreaAugusta, GA$25,000112024
Smile TrainWashington, DC$22,300222025
Biblical Marriage InstituteBirmingham, AL$20,000222025
Center for Black Women's WellnessAtlanta, GA$20,000112022
Foster Care Support FoundationRoswell, GA$20,000112022
Hope Inspired MinistriesMontgomery, AL$20,000112022
Natural Resources Defense CouncilMerrifield, VA$20,000112025
Samaritan's PurseBoone, NC$20,000222025
Southern Environmental Law CenterCharlottesville, AL$20,000112022
Camp OnawayGlenside, PA$15,000222022
Equal Justice InitiativeMontgomery, AL$15,000112025
Get Hope GlobalDenver, CO$15,000332025
Family Sunshine CenterMontgomery, AL$13,650112025
Birds GeorgiaAtlanta, GA$12,500112024
Matthew 25Nashville, TN$12,300112025
Atlanta Shakespeare CompanyAtlanta, GA$10,000112025
Books for KeepsAthens, GA$10,000112023
Camp PasquaneyHebron, NH$10,000112023
First Choice Women's Medical CenterMontgomery, AL$10,000112022
The Church at Brook HillsBirmingham, AL$10,000112025
The Montgomery ChoraleMontgomery, AL$10,000222025
Ukraine Medical OutreachSalisbury, MD$10,000112022
Alzheimer's AssociationChicago, IL$9,562112021
Riverview SchoolEast Sandwich, MA$9,562112021
First Baptist ChurchMontgomery, AL$5,000112021
First Baptist Church Caring CenterMontgomery, AL$5,000112025
Kin InternationalHighlands Ranch, CO$5,000112023
Oneway MinistriesNaperville, IL$3,188112021

36 of 59 (61%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 69%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 72 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Human Services
16 grants
Education
12 grants
Arts & Culture
10 grants
International Affairs
8 grants
Religion
7 grants
Environment
6 grants
Food & Nutrition
4 grants
Health Care
3 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20219$47,811$4,562
202222$500,000$20,000
202329$1,000,000$20,000
202434$1,250,000$25,000
202540$1,500,000$20,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

36% of its giving went to organizations in Alabama. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Alabama
$1.5M
Colorado
$665K
Virginia
$664K
Georgia
$432K
Tennessee
$429K
New York
$340K
District of Columbia
$147K
North Carolina
$20K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund29 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc29 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc18 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc18 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc18 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program16 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $20,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Alabama.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Christenberry-Anderson-Loomis Family's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 404 Charlesgate Court, Nashville, TN, 37215. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 63-1205398 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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