· Public charity
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 underrepresented and disenfranchised communities, from black and brown communities to rural tennesseans.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $78k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $615k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY18–18, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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.
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 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…
Education
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…
Memphis for All Education Fund (MFAED)seeks to build community-based civic partnerships to increase and secure voting access in Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee. MFAED works to decrease disparities in voter
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.
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.
Our mission is to increase the access and quality of social service resources through bettering norms and culture with advocacy, performance improvement strategies, and technology.
To create a sustainable green economy that benefits all
Voter protection and education
Social Welfare
The Tennessee Public Safety Network was established to address the growing stress and trauma experienced by law enforcement and public safety personnel. We believe untreated stress profoundly impacts their physical and emotional well-being.
Advance policies driven by community voices that dismantle systemic and structural barriers to equity and justice
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Equity Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Association of University Cardiologists. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 19 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.
- Who funds THE EQUITY ALLIANCE FUND ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE ADVOCATES FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds TIRRC VOTES ↗
- Who funds Memphis for All ↗
- Who funds THE EQUITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CIVIC TN ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ALLIANCE FOR CLEAN ENERGY ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY CARDIOLOGISTS ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION ↗
- Who funds Unified ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT FOUNDATI ↗
- Who funds FORWARD TN ↗
- Who funds SEEED INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Tennessee Investor Fund · Civic Tn · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · State Power Fund · Southern Coalition for Social Justice · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 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.
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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