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Boulevard Bolt Inc

The boulevard bolt is more than just a race, but an opportunity to celebrate the season of giving and serve those less fortunate in the nashville community.

$109k
Granted FY2020
9
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2020.

Health$240kHousing & Shelter$184kHuman Services$176kFood & Nutrition$157kYouth Development$105kCrime & Legal$55kEducation$42kEmployment$18kOther$0
02FY2020 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k3 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $95k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$116k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHADE TREE FAMILY CLINIC$30,000
LUKE 1412$20,000
THE NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT$15,000
NURSES FOR NEWBORNS OF TENNESSEE$10,200
SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER$10,000
MAGDELENE (THISTLE FARMS)$10,000
OASIS CENTER INC$8,000
HOW'S NASHVILLE PARTNER AGENCY$5,600
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $152k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PENUEL RIDGE RETREAT CENTER: $4k → 9%YOUTH VILLAGESMIDDLE TN: $5k → 17%PENUEL RIDGE RETREAT CENTER: $4k → 9%YOUTH VILLAGESMIDDLE TN: $5k → 17%PENUEL RIDGE RETREAT CENTER: $4k → 9%YOUTH VILLAGESMIDDLE TN: $4k → 17%RESTORATION POINTE: $6k → 14%ROOFTOP FOUNDATION: $7k → 14%ROOFTOP FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%ROOFTOP FOUNDATION: $4k → 14%SHOWER THE PEOPLE: $3k → 14%SHOWER THE PEOPLE: $3k → 14%SHOWER THE PEOPLE: $3k → 14%APHESIS HOUSE INC: $5k → 14%APHESIS HOUSE INC: $4k → 14%APHESIS HOUSE INC: $4k → 14%THE MARY PARRISH CENTER: $3k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $4k → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $11k → 14%HOPE STATION INC: $5k → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $3k → 14%HOPE STATION INC: $3k → 14%OPERATION STAND DOWN NASHVILLE: $6k → 14%OPERATION STAND DOWN NASHVILLE: $5k → 14%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS OF TENNESSEE: $10k → 14%OPERATION STAND DOWN NASHVILLE: $4k → 14%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS OF TENNESSEE: $8k → 14%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $4k → 14%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS OF TENNESSEE: $8k → 14%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 14%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 14%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS OF TENNESSEE: $5k → 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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$946k · 46 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +95% since the first grant, against +72% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2020, 38 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
17

Total granted

$946k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+95%
+72%

Still filing today

87%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • Vanderbilt University
    4× · 2017–2020 · $108k · revenue +74%
  • NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $52k · revenue +213%
  • NF
    NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $46k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CLINIC AT MERCURY COURTS
    one grant, 2019 · $7k
  • RP
    RESTORATION PONITE
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +22%
  • NS
    NASHVILLE STREET BARBERS
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
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
Welcome House Knoxville

Our Mission at Welcome House Knoxville is to share the love of Jesus through the ministries of hospitality and friendship. We provide safe and loving homes for individuals and families in transition to permanent housing.

Housing & Shelter
2
Rahab House

Rahab House is deeply committed to the rescue, refuge, and restoration of human trafficking survivors. We provide comprehensive support that encompasses immediate safety and connections to long-term restorative care in alignment with the…

Human Services
3
My Fathers House Nashville

The mission of My Fathers House Nashville (MFHN) is to provide shelter, parenting education, recovery information and life skills for fathers transitioning out of institutional settings or homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
4
The Mend House Sober Living Community

The Mend House is a sober living community for men, in Knoxville, Tn. which empowers them to gain control over their actions, decisions and choices. The Mend House allows men to enjoy clean, sober and stable housing for up to 2 years while…

Health
5
Tennessee Homeless Solutions

To reduce homelessness and improve family stability by increasing housing resources, administration of hud-mckinney vento funds, and support services through collaborative efforts with partner organizations, when available.

Housing & Shelter
6
Hope House of Tennessee Inc

By creating a safe and structured two year residential program the Hope House of Tennessee will aim to equip and empower personal and educational growth economic self-sufficiency and a deeper understanding of Christs unconditional love.

Housing & Shelter
7
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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8
People Loving Nashville

To bring relief, community, connection and restoration to the most vulnerable of nashville.

Human Services
9
Hananiah House

Transitional housing for women coming out of prison

Crime & Legal
10
Nashville Rescue Mission

Nashville rescue mission, formerly known as nrm holdings, inc., fein 45-2424130, continues the mission services established in 1954, by nashville rescue mission, fein 62-6018832. following god's command to love our neighbors as ourselves,…

Housing & Shelter
11
The Shelter Inc

The shelter's primary purpose is to reduce the effects of domestic violence in the communities it serves by providing housing, clothing, food, and legal aide for victims of domestic violence.

Human Services
12
Grace House of Memphis Tennessee

To provide substance abuse treatment and rehabilitation programs to women in-and-around the memphis tennessee area.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc; the most unlike its peers is Joe Beretta 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

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 64 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/53
Grantees still filing
46/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROOM IN THE INN INC: $52,000 · OtherROOM IN THE INN INCLUKE 14-12: $43,600 · OtherLUKE 14-12THISTLE FARMS INC: $37,100 · OtherTHISTLE FARMS INCNEEDLINK NASHVILLE: $25,600 · OtherNEEDLINK NASHVILLEUNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SERVICES INC: $19,600 · OtherYWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $17,200 · OtherPROJECT RETURN INC: $17,100 · OtherDISMAS INC: $17,100 · OtherMETRO NASHVILLE PARKS AND RECREATIO: $17,000 · OtherMORNING STAR SANCTUARY INC: $15,600 · OtherPARK CENTER INC: $18,100 · Other+21 more: $140,450 · Other+21 moreNURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $30,800 · Human ServicesNURSES FOR NEWBOR…ROOFTOP FOUNDATION: $17,100 · Human ServicesROOFTOP FOUNDATIO…OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE: $15,100 · Human ServicesOPERATION STAND D…YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC: $14,100 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILLAGES FO…ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesST LUKE'S COMMUNI…APHESIS HOUSE INC: $12,600 · Human ServicesAPHESIS HOUSE INCPENUEL RIDGE RETREAT CENTER: $11,600 · Human ServicesPENUEL RIDGE RETR…COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $9,100 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY RESOURC…SHOWER THE PEOPLE: $8,100 · Human ServicesTHE HOPE STATION: $7,100 · Human ServicesRESTORATION PONITE: $6,000 · Human Services+2 more: $6,300 · Human ServicesVanderbilt University: $108,000 · EducationVanderbilt Unive…THE CONTRIBUTOR INC: $19,600 · EducationTHE CONTRIBUTOR …COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TENNESSEE: $5,750 · Education+3 more: $10,000 · Education+3 moreNASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC: $51,600 · Housing & ShelterNASHVILLE S…OPEN TABLE OF NASHVILLE INC: $25,600 · Housing & ShelterOPEN TABLE …THE NEXT DOOR INC: $17,600 · Housing & ShelterTHE NEXT DO…NASHVILLE LAUNCH PAD INC: $4,000 · Housing & ShelterNASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC: $46,100 · Food & NutritionNASHVILLE …SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $44,600 · Food & NutritionSECOND HAR…RENEWAL HOUSE INC: $22,100 · HealthJOE BERETTA FOUNDATION: $15,600 · HealthFAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $13,600 · HealthDavidson County Mental Health and Veterans Assista: $10,600 · HealthSTREET WORKS INC: $3,500 · HealthOASIS CENTER INC: $30,100 · Community ImprovementLADIES OF CHARITY OF NASHVILLE: $9,600 · Community Improvement
Other$420,450Human Services$151,900Education$143,350Housing & Shelter$98,800Food & Nutrition$90,700Health$65,400Community Improvement$39,700

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 budgetVanderbilt University: $108,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC: $51,600 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetNASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC: $46,100 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $44,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLUKE 14-12: $43,600 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $37,100 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $30,800 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOASIS CENTER INC: $30,100 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNEEDLINK NASHVILLE: $25,600 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetOPEN TABLE OF NASHVILLE INC: $25,600 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetRENEWAL HOUSE INC: $22,100 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CONTRIBUTOR INC: $19,600 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SERVICES INC: $19,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARK CENTER INC: $18,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEXT DOOR INC: $17,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $17,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT RETURN INC: $17,100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDISMAS INC: $17,100 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetROOFTOP FOUNDATION: $17,100 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetMORNING STAR SANCTUARY INC: $15,600 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetOPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE: $15,100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC: $14,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $13,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSILOAM HEALTH: $13,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMONROE HARDING INC: $13,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMATTHEW 25 INC: $12,350 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNURTURE THE NEXT FKA PREVENT CHILD ABUSE TENNESSEE: $10,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDavidson County Mental Health and Veterans Assista: $10,600 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetLADIES OF CHARITY OF NASHVILLE: $9,600 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $9,100 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSHOWER THE PEOPLE: $8,100 over 3y, 14% of budgetNASHVILLE DIAPER CONNECTION: $8,100 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TENNESSEE INC: $7,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING LIVES FOUNDATION INC: $7,600 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE HOPE STATION: $7,100 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TENNESSEE: $5,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE LAUNCH PAD INC: $4,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $3,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMANNA CAFE MINISTRIES: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAMBSCROFT MINISTRIES INC DBA THE COOKERY: $2,600 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDAYBREAK ARTS: $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE MARY PARRISH CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget510 FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CARPENTERS SQUARE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Memorial Foundation I…Hca Healthcare Founda…United Way of Middle …The Community Foundat…The Frist FoundationThe Healing Trust For…Dorothy Cate and Thom…Joe C Davis FoundationNashville Predators F…Kharis FoundationSecond Harvest Food B…McCauley-Lindsay Char…
Memorial Foundation IncTN70.7× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Kharis Foundation · Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tn Inc · McCauley-Lindsay Charities of Tenn

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 Boulevard Bolt Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boulevard Bolt Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Boulevard Bolt Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Boulevard Bolt Inc 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 64 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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