· Public charity
Boys & Girls Clubs in Tennessee
To promote exclusively the social welfare of boys and girls in tennessee; to provide guidance and to promote the health, social, educational, vocational, character, and cultural development of boys and girls in tennessee without regard to race, color, creed, or national origin; and to receive, invest, and disburse funds, and to hold…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k4 grants · $811k
- $250k+16 grants · $19M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| B&GC OF TENNESSEE VALLEYKNOXVILLE | $5,902,673 |
| B&GC OF OCOEE REGIONCLEVELAND | $2,251,792 |
| B&GC OF DUMPLIN VALLEY | $1,636,876 |
| B&GC OF CHATTANOOGA | $1,286,666 |
| B&GC OF MAURY COUNTY SOUTH CENTRAL TN | $1,089,291 |
| B&GC OF GREATER KINGSPORT | $991,499 |
| B&GC OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $780,883 |
| B&GC OF SMOKY MOUNTAINS | $679,529 |
| B&GC OF JOHNSON CITYWA COUNTY | $644,475 |
| B&GC OF GREATER MEMPHIS | $619,306 |
| B&GC OF GREENVILLE | $612,432 |
| B&GC OF JACKSONMADISON CO | $545,418 |
| B&GC OF NORTHWEST TN | $513,583 |
| B&GC OF MOUNTAIN EMPIRE | $491,214 |
| B&GC OF CUMBERLAND PLATEAU | $441,106 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 41% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL8× · 2017–2024 · $17M · revenue +56% · 38% of their budget
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE OCOEE REGION8× · 2017–2024 · $7.5M · revenue +186% · 38% of their budget
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SMOKY MOUNTAINS8× · 2017–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +20% · 42% of their budget
Funded once
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.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens.
The mission of the boys & girls clubs of west central missouri is to inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential as caring and productive citizens.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
To enable all young people, especially those who need them most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need it most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
To inspire and enable all youth to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive and caring citizens.
To empower all youth, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.
To inspire all youth especially those who need us the most to become productive, responsible and caring citizens.
To enable our young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their potential.
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 Monroe Area Youth Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 22 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE OCOEE REGION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SMOKY MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TENN ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DUMPLIN VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RUTHERFORD CTY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Elizabethton Carter County Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of the Mountain Empire ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Jackson ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE CUMBERLAND PL ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Greeneville & Greene County ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Northwest Ten ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JOHNSON CITY WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE HATCHIE RIVER ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MORRISTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds MONROE AREA YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CLINCH VALLEY ↗
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: Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · East Tennessee Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Good360 · Inspire Brands Foundation Inc · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · Cadence Bank Foundation · Carmax 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 Boys & Girls Clubs in Tennessee 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.