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Civic Tn
Civictn and its partners are working individually and collectively to create a more accessible, inclusive, and representative democracy by lifting up the voices of the disenfranchised, restoring the power and accessibility of the vote, and strengthening democracy in tennessee.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $522k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACTION TN | $170,000 |
| THE EQUITY ALLIANCE FUND | $126,250 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF TENNESSEE AND | $92,100 |
| TN IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE | $83,550 |
| MEMPHIS FOR ALL EDUCATION FUND | $50,000 |
| CALEB | $35,750 |
| MEMPHIS INTERFAITH COALITION FOR AC | $35,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSLIM ADVISORY COUNCIL | $32,325 |
| ORGANIZE TENNESSEE | $20,000 |
| MEMPHIS ARTISTS FOR CHANGE | $14,550 |
| MEMPHIS APRI | $12,000 |
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 (FY22–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +92% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k 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
- MFMemphis for All Education Fund5× · 2020–2024 · $483k · revenue +371% · 44% of their budget
- TETHE EQUITY ALLIANCE4× · 2020–2023 · $173k · revenue +92%
- AMAMERICAN MUSLIM ADVISORY COUNC4× · 2021–2024 · $146k · revenue +132%
Funded once
- MSMOTUS STRATEGIESone grant, 2021 · $253k
- MHMORE HUMAN INTERNET FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k
- FTFORWARD TNone grant, 2020 · $25k
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 build a cross-class multi-racial progressive alliance, by combining integrated voter engagement, distributive organization, and sustained leadership development.
Tennessee progress works to uplift the values and voices of the progressive movement across tennessee by elevating the issues that matter most to our communities. tennessee progress is a digital and communications hub for the progressive…
Civictn and its partners are working individually and collectively to create a more accessible, inclusive, and representative democracy by lifting up the voices of the disenfranchised, restoring the power and accessibility of the vote, and…
The tennessee worker's alliance is establised primarily to further the common good and social welfare of the working citizens of the united states of america by engaging in research, education and communication efforts regarding policy…
Advance policies driven by community voices that dismantle systemic and structural barriers to equity and justice
The Tennessee Democracy Network is a nonprofit civic incubator for relational organizing and civic literacy initiatives that develop and deepen cultures of nonpartisan democratic engagement in Tennessee.
To ensure an equal voice to traditionally silenced communities across the South.
Social Welfare
To create a sustainable green economy that benefits all
Assist domestic violence and sexual assault programs, law enforcement, courts, community organizations and the general public: training and technical assistance.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Equity Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Unified. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 25. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 34 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 Memphis for All Education Fund ↗
- Who funds THE EQUITY ALLIANCE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE EQUITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ACTION TN ↗
- Who funds Unified ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MUSLIM ADVISORY COUNC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS INTERFAITH COALITION FOR ACTION AND HOPE ↗
- Who funds TIRRC VOTES ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGANS IN ACTION FOR LOVE EQUALITY AND BENEVOLENCE ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds THINK TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds FAIR SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREATER MEMPHIS REGION INC ↗
- Who funds FORWARD TN ↗
- Who funds STAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STREET WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE DISABILITY COALITION ↗
- Who funds Nashville Peacemakers ↗
- Who funds ELMAHABA CENTER ↗
- Who funds Black Clergy Collaborative Of Memphis ↗
- Who funds Memphis Artists for Change ↗
- Who funds Orphanos Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE PRAXIS PROJECT 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 Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Southern Coalition for Social Justice · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Tennessee Investor Fund · Action Tn · The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc · The Kresge Foundation · Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition
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 Civic Tn 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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Find your warmest path to Civic Tn through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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