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Family & Children's Service

The mission of fcs is to connect individuals and families to hope, to healing, and to one another.

$5.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Employment$6.2MHealth$2.7MHuman Services$966kYouth Development$342kEducation$302kFood & Nutrition$58k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $5,302,606, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,881,373 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $578,767 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k5 grants · $554k
  • $250k+5 grants · $4.7M
$261,769
Median grant
1
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MIDDLE TN$2,900,157
TENNESSEE VOICES FOR CHILDREN$872,723
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TN$434,477
CHEROKEE HEALTH SYSTEM$279,222
A STEP AHEAD OF MIDDLE TN$261,769
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CLARKSV$161,757
THE CONTRIBUTOR$119,006
APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN PROJECT$109,087
THISTLE FARMS$106,541
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$57,867
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CLARKSV: $180k → 11%CHEROKEE HEALTH SYSTEM: $279k → 12%A STEP AHEAD OF MIDDLE TN: $262k → 14%APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN PROJECT: $142k → 14%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $58k → 15%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CLARKSV: $162k → 11%CHEROKEE HEALTH SYSTEM: $249k → 12%A STEP AHEAD OF MIDDLE TN: $249k → 14%APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN PROJECT: $109k → 14%YOUNG LEADERS COUNCIL: $7k → 14%GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MIDDLE TN: $3.3M → 14%TENNESSEE VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $873k → 14%GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MIDDLE TN: $2.9M → 14%TENNESSEE VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $540k → 14%THISTLE FARMS: $107k → 14%THISTLE FARMS: $87k → 14%THE CONTRIBUTOR: $183k → 14%THE CONTRIBUTOR: $119k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TN: $434k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TN: $338k → 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 9 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
1

Total granted

$10M
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+40%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’24’25
HealthEmploymentPhilanthropyEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • GI
    Goodwill Industries of Middle TN Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $6.2M · revenue +14%
  • TV
    TENNESSEE VOICES FOR CHILDREN
    2× · 2024–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +32%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CLARKSVILLE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $342k · revenue +10% · 51% of their budget

Funded once

  • YL
    YOUNG LEADERS COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +40%
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
Centerstone of Tennessee Inc

Our mission is "delivering care that changes people's lives"

Health
2
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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3
Tennessee Valley Coalition to End Homelessness Inc

Providing services to clients to assist in preventing homelessness, training partner organizations on reporting system and reporting to governments, statistical information.

Human Services
4
Nashville Food Project Inc

The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food to cultivate community and alleviate hunger. through community food access, agriculture, education, and strategic partnerships, we work toward a…

Food & Nutrition
5
Volunteer Behavioral Health Care System

Provide behavioral health services to clients located in middle and east tennessee

Health
6
Tennessee Charitable Care Network

The mission of tccn is to support, educate, and represent non-profit organizations that provide charitable healthcare services to low-income, uninsured, and underserved tennesseans. tccn envisions a strong, compassionate healthcare safety…

Health
7
Southlight Healthcare Inc

Southlight healthcare provides access to high-quality mental health and substance use treatment, fostering a resilient community by supporting individuals in their recovery.

Health
8
Mental Health Cooperative Inc

Mental health cooperative inc. (mhc) provides integrated health services that include behavioral health care, primary health care, addiction services, and community-based care management. mhc also provides emergency psychiatric services…

Health
9
Tcn Behavioral Health Services Inc

Improving lives by providing clinically excellent and accessible behavioral health services.

Health
10
Impacthealth-Tn

To foster a sustainable network of community health workers and to train frontline public health professionals who possess a deep understanding of and strong ties to the local community.

Human Services
11
Health Services of North Texas Inc

Health services of north texas (hsnt) is a nonprofit, federally qualified community health center dedicated to improving the quality of life for all north texans through medical care, support services, and advocacy. hsnt provides…

Health
12
Tennessee Children's Home Inc

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tennessee Voices for Children; the most unlike its peers is Thistle Farms Inc. 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

11 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Goodwill Industries of Middle TN Inc: $6,182,242 · EmploymentGoodwill Industries of Middle TN Inc+1 more: $6,500 · EmploymentTENNESSEE VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $1,412,355 · HealthTENNESSEE VOICES FOR CH…CHEROKEE HEALTH SYSTEMS: $528,233 · HealthCHEROKEE HEALTH SYSTEMSAPPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN PROJECT ACCESS INC: $250,986 · HealthAPPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN PR…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TENNESSEE INC: $772,576 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARI…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CLARKSVILLE: $342,158 · OtherBIG BROTHERS B…THISTLE FARMS INC: $193,143 · OtherTHISTLE FARMS …A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $510,658 · PhilanthropyTHE CONTRIBUTOR INC: $301,952 · EducationSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TN: $57,867 · Food & Nutrition
Employment$6,188,742Health$2,191,574Other$1,307,877Philanthropy$510,658Education$301,952Food & Nutrition$57,867

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGoodwill Industries of Middle TN Inc: $6,182,242 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTENNESSEE VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $1,412,355 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TENNESSEE INC: $772,576 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCHEROKEE HEALTH SYSTEMS: $528,233 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $510,658 over 2y, 28% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CLARKSVILLE: $342,158 over 2y, 51% of budgetTHE CONTRIBUTOR INC: $301,952 over 2y, 12% of budgetAPPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN PROJECT ACCESS INC: $250,986 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $193,143 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TN: $57,867 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG LEADERS COUNCIL: $6,500 over 1y, 2.3% 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 Foundat…Memorial Foundation I…United Way of Middle …Hca Healthcare Founda…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Family & Children's Service funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Family & Children's Service. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 11 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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