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Angel Corps

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$382k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$629kCivil Rights$500kHuman Services$209kFood & Nutrition$112kPhilanthropy$66kHousing & Shelter$49kHealth$47kInternational$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $42k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$2,100
Median grant
5
States reached
$8k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CHATTANOOGA$2,500
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$2,500
SEARCH MINISTRIES$2,100
MID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY$2,000
NASHVILLE DOLPHINS$2,000
ROOM IN THE INN$2,000
CAT CAY YACHT CLUB$1,500
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF NASHVILLE$1,200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF COLIN COUNTY: $1k → 5%SHOWER UP: $3k → 10%MUSTARD SEED RANCH: $15k → 19%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER DENVER: $2k → 12%PROJECT HOME: $5k → 22%MID-CUMBERLAND MEALS ON WHEELS: $2k → 8%MUSTARD SEED RANCH: $15k → 19%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER DENVER: $1k → 12%WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE: $5k → 22%MUSTARD SEED RANCH: $13k → 19%MUSTARD SEED RANCH: $8k → 19%WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE: $1k → 22%THE SHALOM FOUNDATION: $13k → 4%THE SHALOM FOUNDATION: $12k → 4%FRIENDS OF ADZIWA: $5k → 14%BETTER OPTIONS TN: $1k → 4%FRIENDS OF ADZIWA: $5k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $1k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $100 → 14%MID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY: $2k → 14%LEADERSHIP FRANKLIN: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
CT
CA
CO
MD
TN
NC
SC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 35 repeat orgs$257k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
112

Total granted

$1.7M
$244k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+16%

Still filing today

69%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HA
    HARDING ACADEMY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +27%
  • MS
    MUSTARD SEED RANCH
    4× · 2020–2023 · $51k · revenue +45%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $44k · revenue +483%

Funded once

  • MB
    MONTGONERY BELL ACADEMY
    one grant, 2023 · $36k
  • AC
    AQUINAS COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue +81%
  • TC
    THE COTTAGE SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER & CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +16%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc

Lead our community's efforts to house, support, empower and advocate for families experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
2
Nashville Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Rooftop Foundation

Rooftop's mission is to keep nashville housed; building stability through a compassionate and collaborative rent/mortgage assistance program.

Human Services
4
Nashville Cares

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.

Health
5
Nashville Food Project Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
6
Nashvillehealth

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.

Health
7
Tennessee Children's Home Inc

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…

Human Services
8
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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9
Westminster Home Connection

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…

Community Improvement
10
Park Center Inc

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…

Employment
11
The Village At Glencliff

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.

Housing & Shelter
12
Tennessee Health Care Association

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission; 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.
04the grantee network

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/62
Grantees still filing
40/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KIPP: $751,000 · OtherKIPPUNITED WAY: $60,000 · OtherUNITED WAY+108 more: $267,520 · Other+108 moreMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE: $247,029 · EducationMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UN…HARDING ACADEMY: $200,000 · EducationHARDING ACADEMYUNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC: $44,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDAT…NEW HOPE ACADEMY: $35,000 · EducationNEW HOPE ACADEMYKIPP NASHVILLE: $24,000 · Education+5 more: $38,966 · Education+5 moreMUSTARD SEED RANCH: $50,645 · Human ServicesTHE SHALOM FOUNDATION: $24,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF ADZIWA: $9,610 · Human ServicesWOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC: $6,385 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOME: $5,075 · Human ServicesMID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY: $4,000 · Human Services+7 more: $9,850 · Human ServicesFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $94,288 · InternationalRENEWAL HOUSE INC: $24,999 · HealthTHE COTTAGE SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER & CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $12,500 · HealthMERCY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $10,000 · HealthSADDLE UP: $9,680 · HealthCOMMONGOOD MEDICAL: $7,034 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 · HealthCORNERSTONE MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · Health+4 more: $5,254 · HealthDOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS: $8,451 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsNASHVILLE FAIRGROUNDS SPEEDWAY HALL OF FAME: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF FRANKLIN PARKS INC: $1,026 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $105 · Recreation & SportsTHE CAT CAY RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WESTHAVEN FOUNDATION INC: $2,250 · Arts & CultureTENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE STEAM PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,078,520Education$588,995Human Services$110,065International$94,288Health$79,467Recreation & Sports$19,582Arts & Culture$15,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE: $247,029 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHARDING ACADEMY: $200,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $94,288 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSTARD SEED RANCH: $50,645 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC: $44,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEW HOPE ACADEMY: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRENEWAL HOUSE INC: $24,999 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SHALOM FOUNDATION: $24,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetKIPP NASHVILLE: $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $18,966 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAQUINAS COLLEGE: $14,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE COTTAGE SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER & CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $12,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE CAT CAY RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMERCY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSADDLE UP: $9,680 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF ADZIWA: $9,610 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS: $8,451 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMONGOOD MEDICAL: $7,034 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF NASHVILLE: $6,900 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetWOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC: $6,385 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY WILLIAMSON -MAURY: $6,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $5,075 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER DENVER INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShower Up: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOASIS CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE COACHING COALITION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WESTHAVEN FOUNDATION INC: $2,250 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN AGAINST ABUSE LEGAL CENTER: $1,698 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDoor Step Project: $1,568 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHARD BARGAIN MT HOPE REDEVELOPMENT INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSTARS NASHVILLE: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAT CAY MEDICAL CLINIC FOUNDATION: $1,150 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF FRANKLIN PARKS INC: $1,026 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Promise of Collin County: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetApartment Life Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE STEAM PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…United Way of Middle …Hca Healthcare Founda…Pam Lewis FoundationNashville Predators F…Ebs FoundationDorothy Cate and Thom…Memorial Foundation I…United Way of William…The Healing Trust For…The Frist FoundationSpeer Foundation
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN42.6× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Angel Corps funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Angel Corps. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Angel Corps?

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.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 154 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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