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Economic Club of Nashville Charities Inc

To provide support to other charitable organizations and public service groups.

$380k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Human Services$576kYouth Development$92kEducation$75kCommunity Improvement$50kHealth$35k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $220k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$24,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$594k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FAMILY CENTER INC$150,000
ELIS HOUSE$37,655
THE NEXT DOOR INC$35,000
NV PUBLIC LIBRARY FDN-NAZA$30,000
HARVEST HANDS COMMUNITY DEV$25,000
OASIS$24,000
TN VOICESNURTURE THE NEXT$17,000
MARTHA OBRYAN CENTER$16,200
LEGACY MISSION VILLAGE$15,000
ST LUKES COMMUNITY HOUSE$10,000
RAPHAH INSTITUTE$10,000
PRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES$9,800
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $463k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE FAMILY CENTER INC: $150k → 14%THE FAMILY CENTER INC: $106k → 14%THE FAMILY CENTER INC: $95k → 14%THE FAMILY CENTER INC: $85k → 14%ST LUKES COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 14%ST LUKES COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 14%ST LUKES COMMUNITY HOUSE: $8k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$721k · 7 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +2% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$721k
$107k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationCrime & LegalHealthHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TF
    THE FAMILY CENTER INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $436k · revenue +33%
  • NP
    NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +294%
  • HH
    HARVEST HANDS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • EH
    ELI'S HOUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2025 · $38k · revenue +90%
  • TN
    THE NEXT DOOR INC
    one grant, 2025 · $35k · revenue 0%
  • LM
    LEGACY MISSION VILLAGE
    one grant, 2025 · $15k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
My Fathers House Nashville

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.

Housing & Shelter
2
Thompson Child & Family Focus Inc

Founded in 1886, thompson child & family focus is called to strengthen children, families, and communitiesdelivering measurable outcomes through healing, teaching, worship, and play. for more than a century, thompson has transformed lives…

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3
Hope Center for Children

Hope center for children's mission is to build stable, healthy families in the upstate of sc by providing a safe place from abuse and neglect.

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4
Family Nurturing Center of Kentucky

The mission of Family Nurturing Center is to end the cycle of child abuse by promoting individual well-being and healthy family relationships. We envision a world with safe children, thriving families and nurturing communities and offer a…

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5
Family Services Inc

To strengthen the well-being and development of families and individuals through professional human services programs, including therapy, counseling, education, special assistance, and advocacy.

Human Services
6
Project Return Inc

People who have just been released from prison are typically stigmatized, overlooked, and pigeonholed by society. when they walk into project return, they discover that here they are valued, heard, and encouraged. while reduction of…

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7
Avance Inc

Avance creates pathways to economic mobility for predominately latino families through high quality, culturally responsive, two-generation programming that ensures school-readiness for young children and opportunities for parents to build…

Community Improvement
8
Family Lifeline

Family lifeline partners with families and individuals, delivering intensive home and community-based services to achieve an equitable, resilient community where families and individuals are connected, safe, and living a healthy,…

Human Services
9
The Parent Child Ctr of Tulsa Inc

To prevent child abuse and neglect through education, treatment, and advocacy. the parent child center of tulsa (pcct) has been serving the tulsa community and surrounding areas since 1990. in 2024, pcct served more than 96,000 infants,…

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10
Lena Pope Home Inc

The mission of lena pope home, inc. (lena pope) is to equip children, families, caregivers, and community with a strong foundation through counseling, education and behavior interventions.

Human Services
11
East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc

East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…

Health
12
Beech Acres

Beech acres parenting center, an ohio not-for-proft, has served children and families in greater cincinnati since 1849. we combine science and compassion to deliver innovative solutions that equip adults to meet children's needs and…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Martha O'bryan Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Legacy Mission Village. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FAMILY CENTER INC: $435,500 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY CENTER INCST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $27,500 · Human ServicesST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC+1 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesOASIS CENTER INC: $82,500 · Community ImprovementOASIS CENTER INCHARVEST HANDS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC: $40,000 · Community ImprovementHARVEST HANDS COMM…RAPHAH INSTITUTE: $10,000 · Community ImprovementRAPHAH INSTITUTENASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationNASHVILLE P…PRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES: $9,800 · EducationPRESTON TAY…ELI'S HOUSE: $37,655 · HealthNURTURE THE NEXT FKA PREVENT CHILD ABUSE TENNESSEE: $37,000 · Crime & LegalTHE NEXT DOOR INC: $35,000 · Housing & ShelterMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC: $23,700 · Religion
Human Services$478,000Community Improvement$132,500Education$84,800Health$37,655Crime & Legal$37,000Housing & Shelter$35,000Religion$23,700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE FAMILY CENTER INC: $435,500 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetOASIS CENTER INC: $82,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHARVEST HANDS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNURTURE THE NEXT FKA PREVENT CHILD ABUSE TENNESSEE: $37,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEXT DOOR INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC: $23,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEGACY MISSION VILLAGE: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetRAPHAH INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN22.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · The Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Dettwiller Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Economic Club of Nashville Charities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Economic Club of Nashville Charities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Economic Club of Nashville Charities Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Economic Club of Nashville Charities Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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