Tennessee · Public charity
Charity Circle of Murfreesboro
CHARITY CIRCLE OF MURFREESBORO operates to raise funds to help support local charities that provide assistance to individuals and families in need.
- $715k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $698k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $90,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $646k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Charity Circle of Murfreesboro funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 37 | $668k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $591k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $589k | 3% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $440k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $393k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $437k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $417k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $387k | 17% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Helpers of Rutherford County | $560,980 | 9 | 21% |
| Journey Home Inc | $534,484 | 9 | 4% |
| Rutherford County Emergency Food Bank Inc | $358,850 | 9 | 5% |
| Middle Tennessee State University Foundation | $258,607 | 9 | 0% |
| Child Advocacy Center of Rutherford County Inc | $187,067 | 9 | 3% |
| Domestic Violence Program Inc | $182,500 | 9 | 3% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Rutherford Cty | $175,600 | 9 | 1% |
| Mid-Cumberland Human Resource Agency | $164,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Special Kids Inc | $158,350 | 9 | 1% |
| Alive Hospice Inc | $156,500 | 8 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Charity Circle of Murfreesboro supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Christy-Houston Foundation Inc · United Way of South Central Tennessee · John D Floyd Charitable Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Nashville Predators Foundation · Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital · Adams Family Foundation I · Jennings & Rebecca Jones Foundation Inc · Adams Family Foundation II
How this is measured
About Charity Circle of Murfreesboro
- How much does Charity Circle of Murfreesboro give?
- Charity Circle of Murfreesboro reported 38 itemized grants totaling $697,650, out of $715,050 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Charity Circle of Murfreesboro fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Food & Nutrition (14%), Housing & Shelter (13%).
- Who are Charity Circle of Murfreesboro's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Community Helpers of Rutherford County ($561k), Journey Home Inc ($534k), Rutherford County Emergency Food Bank Inc ($359k).
- Does Charity Circle of Murfreesboro fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Charity Circle of Murfreesboro?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Christy-Houston Foundation Inc, United Way of South Central Tennessee.
- Where is Charity Circle of Murfreesboro based?
- Charity Circle of Murfreesboro is based in TN.
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