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Tennessee · Public charity

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 FY2025(still arriving)
10
Itemized grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$5.3M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$261,769
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,900,157
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$17M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Family & Children's Service funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$5.3M10%
FY20249$5.2M100%
FY20221$7kn/a
100% 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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Goodwill Industries of Middle TN Inc$6,182,24223%
Tennessee Voices for Children$1,412,35524%
Catholic Charities of Tennessee Inc$772,57622%
Cherokee Health Systems$528,23320%
A Step Ahead Foundation of Middle Tennessee$510,658228%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Clarksville$342,158251%
The Contributor Inc$301,952212%
Appalachian Mountain Project Access Inc$250,98627%
Thistle Farms Inc$193,14321%
Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tn$57,86710%
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All grantees of Family & Children's Service by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Goodwill Industries of Middle TN Inc$6,182,24223%
Tennessee Voices for Children$1,412,35524%
Catholic Charities of Tennessee Inc$772,57622%
Cherokee Health Systems$528,23320%
A Step Ahead Foundation of Middle Tennessee$510,658228%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Clarksville$342,158251%
The Contributor Inc$301,952212%
Appalachian Mountain Project Access Inc$250,98627%
Thistle Farms Inc$193,14321%
Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tn$57,86710%
Young Leaders Council$6,50012%

Where it is load-bearing

Family & Children's Service supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

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About Family & Children's Service

How much does Family & Children's Service give?
Family & Children's Service reported 10 itemized grants totaling $5,302,606, out of $5,881,373 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does Family & Children's Service fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (59%), Health (26%), Human Services (9%).
Who are Family & Children's Service's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Goodwill Industries of Middle TN Inc ($6.2M), Tennessee Voices for Children ($1.4M), Catholic Charities of Tennessee Inc ($773k).
Does Family & Children's Service fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Family & Children's Service?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Memorial Foundation Inc, United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc.
Where is Family & Children's Service based?
Family & Children's Service is based in TN.

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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