· Public charity
Family & Children's Service
The mission of fcs is to connect individuals and families to hope, to healing, and to one another.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $5,302,606 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,881,373 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $578,767 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
- $50k–250k5 grants · $554k
- $250k+5 grants · $4.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of your 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
- TVTENNESSEE VOICES FOR CHILDREN2× · 2024–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +32%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CLARKSVILLE2× · 2024–2025 · $342k · revenue +10% · 51% of their budget
- TCTHE CONTRIBUTOR INC2× · 2024–2025 · $302k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- YLYOUNG LEADERS COUNCILgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +40%
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.
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…
Our mission is "delivering care that changes people's lives"
Providing services to clients to assist in preventing homelessness, training partner organizations on reporting system and reporting to governments, statistical information.
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…
Southlight healthcare provides access to high-quality mental health and substance use treatment, fostering a resilient community by supporting individuals in their recovery.
Provide behavioral health services to clients located in middle and east tennessee
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…
Oasis center targets undeserved youth, families, schools, and neighborhoods with a mission to help youth grow, thrive and create positive change in their lives and in our community.
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.
The Mend House is a sober living community for men, in Knoxville, Tn. which empowers them to gain control over their actions, decisions and choices. The Mend House allows men to enjoy clean, sober and stable housing for up to 2 years while…
Our mission is to increase socioeconomic mobility by building pathways to thriving careers.
Improving lives by providing clinically excellent and accessible behavioral health services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tennessee Voices for Children and 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.
11 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.
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 Goodwill Industries of Middle TN Inc ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds CHEROKEE HEALTH SYSTEMS ↗
- Who funds A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CLARKSVILLE ↗
- Who funds THE CONTRIBUTOR INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN PROJECT ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TN ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LEADERS COUNCIL ↗
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 · Memorial Foundation Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Family & Children's Service 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.