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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…

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$3.7MYouth Development$2.4MEmployment$1.4MArts & Culture$315kHousing & Shelter$50kRecreation & Sports$17kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kHuman Services$5k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $294k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$194,373
Median grant
3
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%US SPACE & ROCKET CENTER FOUNDATION: $12k → 11%BATTELLE EDUCATION: $750k → 15%BATTELLE EDUCATION: $750k → 15%BATTELLE EDUCATION: $500k → 15%BATTELLE EDUCATION: $500k → 15%BATTELLE EDUCATION: $305k → 15%BATTELLE EDUCATION: $300k → 15%BATTELLE EDUCATION: $300k → 15%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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.8M · 5 repeat orgs$153k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$7.8M
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+47%

Still filing today

80%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEmploymentArts & CultureHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • BE
    BATTELLE EDUCATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +173%
  • TV
    TENNESSEE VALLEY ROBOTICS
    8× · 2018–2025 · $2.4M · revenue 0% · 63% of their budget
  • TR
    TVA RETIREES ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • AL
    AMERICAN LEGION
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • HV
    HAPPY VALLEY COMMUNITY CLUB
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -47%
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
Tennessee Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The organizations mission is to promote and maintain a business climate favorable to businesses in tennessee.

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2
Tennesseans for Quality Early Education

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.

Education
3
Nashville Technology Council Foundation

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…

Education
4
Tennessee Clean Water Network

To identify, prevent, and remedy water pollution statewide through a network of allies and resources.

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5
Tennessee State Parks Conservancy

To support education, health and access programs that preserve, protect, and enhance Tennessee's natural areas and parks system.

Environment
6
Technology Association of Georgia

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.

Community Improvement
7
Tennessee Environmental Council

To educate and advocate for the conservation and improvement of tennessees environment, communities and public health

Environment
8
Decatur County Chamber of Commerce

Business and tourism development for decatur county, tennessee

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9
University of Chattanooga Foundation Inc

Support of higher education through special projects of the university of tennessee at chattanooga

Education
10
Tennessee Retail Association

The Tennessee Retail Association's mission is to strengthen the business climate for Tennessee retailers through interaction with the Tennessee General Assembly.

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11
Greater Tennessee Chapter Associated Builders and Contractors Inc

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…

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12
Southeast Tn Rc&D Council

Plan and develop resource conservation and development programs

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Chattanooga Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BATTELLE EDUCATION: $3,405,000 · Human ServicesBATTELLE EDUCATION+1 more: $12,000 · Human ServicesTENNESSEE VALLEY ROBOTICS: $2,418,473 · Youth DevelopmentTENNESSEE VALLEY ROBOTICSTVA RETIREES ASSOCIATION: $1,408,870 · EmploymentTVA RETIREES ASSOCIA…TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY: $328,720 · OtherAMERICAN LEGION: $15,000 · OtherHAPPY VALLEY COMMUNITY CLUB: $15,000 · Other+6 more: $46,400 · OtherCreative Discovery Museum: $200,000 · Arts & CultureSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterUNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Education
Human Services$3,417,000Youth Development$2,418,473Employment$1,408,870Other$405,120Arts & Culture$200,000Housing & Shelter$50,000Education$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBATTELLE EDUCATION: $3,405,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetTENNESSEE VALLEY ROBOTICS: $2,418,473 over 8y, 63% of budgetCreative Discovery Museum: $200,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHATTANOOGA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL INC: $6,250 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Tennessee Health Foun…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Tennessee Health Foundation IncTN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Bicentennial Volunteers Incorporated funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bicentennial Volunteers Incorporated. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 16 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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