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Book Em
Book'em creates a more literate nashville and ignites children's passion for reading through book ownership and enthusiastic volunteers.
$361k
Granted FY2024
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Largest
01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
middle
2020
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2021
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2022
metro
2023
metropark
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $360,514.
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Median grant
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States reached
$595k
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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Nashville Technology Council
Leading voice & advocate for middle tn's information technology ecosystem & tech professionals.
Community Improvement
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Communities in Schools of Tennessee
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
Education
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Tennesseans for Quality Early
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
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Tennessee Charitable Care Network
The mission of tccn is to support, educate, and represent non-profit organizations that provide charitable healthcare services to low-income, uninsured, and underserved tennesseans.
Health
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Leadership Nashville Foundation
Leadership nashville invites local leaders to participate in an intensive leadership program
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Kings Academy Nashville
King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.
Education
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Tennessee History for Kids
Helping school teachers for grades k-12 teach history, civics, & geography with a focus on tn.
Arts & Culture
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Nashville Public Television Inc
Arts & Culture
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Leadership Tennessee Inc
Fosters collaborative, non-partisan dialogue on state issues, connecting network of leaders
Public Benefit
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Tn Afl-Cio Labor Council
Labor organization
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Tennessee Christian Preparatory School
Educate children in a christ like manner
Education
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Tennessee Environmental Council
To educate and advocate for the conservation and improvement of tennessee's environment, communities and public health
Environment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Last Minute Toy Store. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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.
The Community Foundation of MiddleTN20.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle · Nashville Predators Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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.
04Through Plinth
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How do I get to Book Em?
Find your warmest path to Book Em through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines