· Public charity
Brentwood Rotary Club Charitable Foundation
To perform and support charitable activities promoting welfare in the brentwood, tennessee area and internationally.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of BRENTWOOD ROTARY CLUB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $70,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $228,359 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $158,359 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRANKLIN NOON ROTARY DISTRICT 6760 | $20,000 |
| MY BAG MY STORY | $10,000 |
| SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER | $10,000 |
| CREATIVETS | $10,000 |
| BRIDGES OF WILLIAMSON CO | $10,000 |
| FRANKTOWN OPEN HEARS MINISTRY | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% 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 +24% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 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, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- OGONE GENERATION AWAY2× · 2022–2024 · $16k · revenue +202%
NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC2× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +1%- FTFRANK TOWN OPEN HEARTS MINISTRY INC2× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- TBTENNESSEE BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOMES INCone grant, 2021 · $13k
- OHOWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +314%
- STSTRONGER THAN MY FATHERone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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 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.
Feed america first is a murfreesboro, tn based food ministry focused upon hunger relief in small towns and rural communities in middle tn and parts of al, ky and ms. since 2000 faf has distributed enough food for over 150,000,000 meals to…
Hands on nashville's mission is to meet community needs through volunteerism.
To raise support and awareness of the homeless population in middle tennessee and beyond.
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.
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…
Habitat for humanity of williamson-maury (hfhwm) seeks to put god's love into action by partnering with communites to build affordable housing, inspiring hope and life-changing stability for families through homeownership.
Build stronger communities and improve health outcomes for marginalized populations through paid training programs and apprenticeship training opportunities.
Humane society of the tennessee valley, inc. is dedicated to providing lifesaving programs and resources to enrich the lives of people and companion animals in the communities we serve.
Social Welfare
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stronger Than My Father. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 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. 20 of the 26 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 FRANKLIN NOON ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONE GENERATION AWAY ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRANK TOWN OPEN HEARTS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds OWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds STRONGER THAN MY FATHER ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVETS ↗
- Who funds My Bag My Story ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) ↗
- Who funds PETERSON FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSONS ↗
- Who funds ANCORATN FKA END SLAVERY TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM'S PROMISE ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Nashville Predators Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Servant Foundation · Ramsey Family Foundation Trust · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Franklin Noon Rotary Charitable Foundation Inc · McCauley-Lindsay Charities of Tenn · Andrea Waitt Carlton Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Frist 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 Brentwood Rotary Club Charitable Foundation 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.
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