How much did ACTION TN grant in FY2024?

ACTION TN reported 8 grants totaling $692,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

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· Public charity

ACTION TN

Voter engagement last year, we deepened our commitment to community-centered voter engagement by supporting and coordinating programs that reached thousands of tennesseans across the state.

$692k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$167k

Largest

01What you fund

0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Civil Rights$477kEducation$152kEnvironment$30kHuman Services$14kCommunity Improvement$6kOther$198k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

actliveseducation

2020

contact

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k3 grants · $78k
$50k–250k5 grants · $615k

$102,500

Median grant

States reached

$593k

Total assets

Largest grants

THE EQUITY ALLIANCE FUND$167,000
TN ADVOCATES FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD$152,000
TN PROGRESS$105,000
TIRRC VOTES$102,500
MEMPHIS FOR ALL$88,000
CIVIC TN$37,500
SOUTHERN ALLIANCE FOR CLEAN ENERGY$30,000
EMERGE ACTION FUND$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

Tennessee Workers Alliance

The tennessee worker's alliance is establised primarily to further the common good and social welfare of the working citizens of the united states of america by engaging in research, education and communication efforts regarding policy…

Employment

Tennessee Geographic Alliance

Education

Tennessee Democracy Network

The Tennessee Democracy Network is a nonprofit civic incubator for relational organizing and civic literacy initiatives that develop and deepen cultures of nonpartisan democratic engagement in Tennessee.

Public Benefit

Tennessee Wesleyan University

Four-year liberal arts college

Education

Action Tn

Action tn is dedicated to helping grassroots groups across tennessee expand and coordinate their civic and political engagement efforts in service of building power around our shared values, with a particular focus on empowering…

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Tennessee Hospital Education and

Providing education and information to the public and its members and to sponsor various healthcare related workshops, conferences, and publications to improve quality of healthcare statewide.

Health

The Equity Network

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Forward Tn

Forwardtn is a non-profit project dedicated to elevating voices of forward-thinking tennesseans who want a balanced approach to government where policy affecting the wellbeing of people's lives is shaped by evidence and results, instead of…

Community Improvement

Imagine Tennessee Better Inc

Social Welfare

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East Tennessee Equality Council Inc

The primary purpose of the corporation is to eliminate the prejudice and discrimination against, and to promote awareness and increase acceptance of Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, and Transgendered persons within the communities of East…

Civil Rights

Tennessee Investor Fund

The tennessee investor fund (tif) is a non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to supporting organizations that conduct research, voter education, advocacy on legislative and economic issues, and voter turnout.

Public Benefit

Tennessee State Collaborative On

The mission of the state collaborative on reforming education (score) is to catalyze transformative change in tennessee education so that all students can achieve success. score is an independent, nonprofit, and nonpartisan institution,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Civic Tn and the most unlike its peers is Association of University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/14

Grantees still filing

11/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Civil Rights$476,901Other$198,496Education$152,000Environment$30,000Human Services$13,550Community Improvement$6,000

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.

United Way of Middle Tennessee IncTN15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle · Southern Coalition for Social Justice · The Healing Trust · Tides Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 organisation ACTION TN 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

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: TN ADVOCATES FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~10 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 462511274 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on TN ADVOCATES FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 87% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Action Tn?

Find your warmest path to Action Tn through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ACTION TN

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Action Tn?

More from the funding graph

ACTION TN

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Action Tn?

More from the funding graph