How much did CIVIC TN grant in FY2024?

CIVIC TN reported 11 grants totaling $681,525 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

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· Public charity

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.

$682k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$170k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of CIVIC TN’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

voter participation

2021

covid vaccinevaccine outrearedistricting educatmemphis educationblack

2022

extremeforwardtntennesseanspolicysharedissuesorganizing

2023

catalystsocial justicevoicekregsemicahtogetherissues

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k6 grants · $150k
$50k–250k5 grants · $522k

$35,750

Median grant

States reached

$770k

Total assets

Largest grants

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

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.3M · 19 repeat orgs$672k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +239% since the first grant, against +134% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.3M

$488k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+239%

+134%

Still filing today

68%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Civil RightsHealthCommunity ImprovementReligionHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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

TE
THE EQUITY ALLIANCE
4× · 2020–2023 · $173k · revenue +665%
AM
AMERICAN MUSLIM ADVISORY COUNCIL
4× · 2021–2024 · $146k · revenue +239%
MI
MEMPHIS INTERFAITH COALITION FOR AC
3× · 2022–2024 · $130k · revenue +230%

Funded once

MS
MOTUS STRATEGIES
one grant, 2021 · $253k
FT
FORWARD TN
one grant, 2020 · $25k
IT
INCLUSION TENNESSEE
one grant, 2023 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Tennessee Democracy Network

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.

Public Benefit

Memphis for All

To build a cross-class multi-racial progressive alliance, by combining integrated voter engagement, distributive organization, and sustained leadership development.

Civil Rights

Tennessee Workers Alliance

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…

Employment

Action Tn

Action tn is dedicated to helping grassroots groups across tennessee expand and coordinate their civic and political engagement efforts in service of building power around our shared values, with a particular focus on empowering…

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One Voice

We are a nonprofit civic engagement organization working to give voice to marginalized and vulnerable communities across the South

Public Benefit

Tennessee Alliance for Progress

To create a sustainable green economy that benefits all

Health

Tennessee Advocates for Planned

To encourage and protect informed individual choice regarding reproductive health care.

Education

Civic Tn

Civictn is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit civic engagement table of over 35 local- based organizations throughout tennessee that are working individually and collectively to create a more accessible, inclusive, and representative democracy by…

Civil Rights

Southern Movement Committee

Southern movement committee engages in community organizing and community led lawyering for racial justice and human rights in tennessee

Crime & Legal

Imagine Tennessee Better Inc

Social Welfare

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Transformative Justice of Williamson County

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Tennessee Health Care Campaign Inc

THCC is working in Tennessee for affordable access to high-quality health care for all Tennesseans through public education, advocacy, and research.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Equity Alliance Fund 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.

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 24% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%1/36

the rest of the field

12%

1,895/15,720

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.

05the grantee network

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/24

Grantees still filing

19/24

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,672,930Civil Rights$860,875Religion$204,075Community Improvement$89,500Health$73,000Arts & Culture$32,200Human Services$30,843

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.

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.

The Healing TrustTN22.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Healing Trust · Community Foundation · Southern Coalition for Social Justice · The Community Foundation of Middle · The Community Foundation of Greater · Proteus Fund Inc · Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee · Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc · The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc · The Education Trust Inc · Proteus Action League · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FAIR SHARE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 261525298 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FAIR SHARE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 45% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Civic Tn?

Find your warmest path to Civic Tn through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CIVIC TN

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Civic Tn?

More from the funding graph

CIVIC TN

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Civic Tn?

More from the funding graph