· Public charity
Bicentennial Volunteers Incorporated
Bicentennial volunteers (bvi) supports the tennessee valley authority (tva) and the people of the tva service area by providing funding for charitable projects including funding for robotics education and competitions, stem education at schools within the tva service area, as well as supporting other charitable organizations and related…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $294k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BATTELLE EDUCATION | $750,000 |
| TENNESSEE VALLEY ROBOTICS | $300,000 |
| TVA RETIREES ASSOCIATION (TVARA) | $194,373 |
| CREATIVE DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE | $50,000 |
| LEGACY PARKS | $5,150 |
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 (FY17–25, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- BEBATTELLE EDUCATION7× · 2019–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +105%
- TVTENNESSEE VALLEY ROBOTICS8× · 2018–2025 · $2.4M · revenue 0% · 63% of their budget
- TRTVA RETIREES ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +40%
Funded once
- ALAMERICAN LEGIONone grant, 2024 · $15k
- HVHAPPY VALLEY COMMUNITY CLUBone grant, 2023 · $15k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -54%
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.
The organizations mission is to promote and maintain a business climate favorable to businesses in tennessee.
To advance state policies and practices that ensure all tennessee children from birth through 3rd grade get the high quality early education they need to power our state's future.
The nashville technology council foundation raises funds to support the ntc's talent development initiatives to enhance the technology programs available to students in middle tennessee. its mission is to invest in building the pathways…
To identify, prevent, and remedy water pollution statewide through a network of allies and resources.
To support education, health and access programs that preserve, protect, and enhance Tennessee's natural areas and parks system.
TAG is dedicated to the promotion and economic advancement of Georgia's Technology Industry and provides leadership in the areas of policy, capital, education and giving.
To educate and advocate for the conservation and improvement of tennessees environment, communities and public health
Business and tourism development for decatur county, tennessee
Support of higher education through special projects of the university of tennessee at chattanooga
The Tennessee Retail Association's mission is to strengthen the business climate for Tennessee retailers through interaction with the Tennessee General Assembly.
Associated builders and contractors, inc's mission is to promote free enterprise within the construction industry. they provide management training, bid lists, social support for members, and other information and changes affecting the…
Plan and develop resource conservation and development programs
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Chattanooga Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tva Retirees Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 16 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 BATTELLE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE VALLEY ROBOTICS ↗
- Who funds TVA RETIREES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Creative Discovery Museum ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
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: Tennessee Health Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organization Bicentennial Volunteers Incorporated 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.