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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 38 grants below total $697,650 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $715,050 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $17,400 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $397k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $219k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY HELPERS | $90,000 |
| NOURISH FOOD BANK | $72,000 |
| THE JOURNEY HOME | $57,000 |
| ACE LEARNING CENTER - PROJECT HELP | $43,500 |
| DOORS OF HOPE | $33,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENN INC | $29,800 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $25,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $23,000 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER | $22,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS- MID CUMBERLAND HR AGENCY | $20,000 |
| SPECIAL KIDS | $18,850 |
| GREENHOUSE MINISTRIES | $18,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| INTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC | $15,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $926k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +44% since the first grant, against -19% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- CHCommunity Helpers of Rutherford County9× · 2017–2025 · $561k · revenue +25%
- JHJOURNEY HOME INC9× · 2017–2025 · $534k · revenue +170%
- CACHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $187k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- RIROOM IN THE INN OF RUTHERFORD CO INCone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue -70%
- LSLUTHERAN SERVICES IN TENNESSEE INCone grant, 2020 · $8k
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 Crisis Center of Russell County was organized to provide assistance and temporary housing to victims of domestic abuse through secured temporary housing and education with job placement to transition them back into society. In…
Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…
Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling
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…
To provide the highest quality care and opportunities affording individuals with developmental disabilities to lead successful and fulfilling lives withing their communities
Provide advocacy for abused and neglected children in juvenile court.
Provide a community owned and operated shelter for a safe haven from domestic violence for women and their children in beaufort county, nc. provide counseling and guidance to allow these women to make decisions about their future.
To advocate for people who are homless or near homeless, strategically planning for housing and services in the community, maximizing resources and collaboarating with community partners to implement housing and services within the…
Residential and support services to children and adults with severe and multiple disabilities allowing them the opportunity to lead safe, stable, and personally fulfilling lifestyles in tennessee communities.
To empower individuals living with disabilities and challenges to gain independence
To provide court-appointed special advocates to child victims of abuse and neglect. The programs vision is a safe, permanent, loving home for every child it serves.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Domestic Violence Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Casa of Rutherford County. 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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 45 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 Community Helpers of Rutherford County ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Rutherford County Emergency Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RUTHERFORD CTY ↗
- Who funds MID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds DOORS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT TRANSFORMATION TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds ENDURE ATHLETICS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENHOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds READ TO SUCCEED ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds TUCKER'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARNABAS VISION INC ↗
- Who funds RUTHERFORD COUNTY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds BRANCHES RECOVERY CENTERS ↗
- Who funds 180 DEGREES MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PREVENTION COALITION FOR SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Inspiritus Inc ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KYMARI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) ↗
- Who funds RUTHERFORD COUNTY PRIMARY CARE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Elders First Adult Day Services Association ↗
- Who funds THE COLLECTIVE AT BUILDING HOPE ↗
- Who funds POSSIBILITY PLACE ↗
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 · 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
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 Charity Circle of Murfreesboro 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.