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Angel Corps
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $42k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KIPP | $250,000 |
| HARDING ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY | $41,500 |
| FRANKLIN SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $6,077 |
| FRIENDS OF ADZIWA | $5,110 |
| WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE | $5,035 |
| GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CHATTANOOGA | $2,500 |
| SEARCH MINISTRIES | $2,100 |
| ROOM IN THE INN | $2,000 |
| NASHVILLE DOLPHINS | $2,000 |
| MID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY | $2,000 |
| CAT CAY YACHT CLUB | $1,500 |
| CHRIST THE KING CHURCH | $1,200 |
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 (FY20–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% 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 +16% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- HAHARDING ACADEMY4× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +27%
- MSMUSTARD SEED RANCH4× · 2020–2023 · $51k · revenue +45%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2022 · $44k · revenue +483%
Funded once
- MBMONTGONERY BELL ACADEMYone grant, 2023 · $36k
- ACAQUINAS COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue +81%
- TCTHE COTTAGE SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER & CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +16%
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.
Lead our community's efforts to house, support, empower and advocate for families experiencing homelessness.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Rooftop's mission is to keep nashville housed; building stability through a compassionate and collaborative rent/mortgage assistance program.
Nashville cares exists to end the hiv epidemic, promote comprehensive sexual health and end sexual health stigmatization and discrimination through prevention, education, treatment, support, advocacy, and strategic partnership.
The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.
Nashvillehealth creates a culture of health and wellbeing by serving as a convener to open dialogue, aligning resources and building smart strategic partnerships to create a plan for health unique to nashvilles needs.
Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Westminster home connection's vision is for every older adult and person with a disability to age-in-place safely and with dignity. we repair and make mobility modifications in hundreds of homes, preserving affordable housing. we encourage…
Park center has been serving nashville for over 40 years, providing a place for hope and recovery for people experiencing serious mental illness, homelessness, and addiction. we meet people where they are and provide support through…
The village at glencliff's mission is to provide a healing community for medically vulnerable, unhoused nashvillians to safely recover, stabilize their lives, and imagine their futures.
To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Cat Cay Medical Clinic Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
62 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. 62 of the 154 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 MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds HARDING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED RANCH ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds RENEWAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHALOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIPP NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE COTTAGE SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER & CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAT CAY RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SADDLE UP ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ADZIWA ↗
- Who funds DOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMONGOOD MEDICAL ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY WILLIAMSON -MAURY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds MID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY ↗
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 · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Pam Lewis Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Ebs Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · United Way of Williamson County · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · The Frist Foundation · Speer 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 Angel Corps 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.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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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Find your warmest path to Angel Corps through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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