· Public charity
Fcm Cares Inc
Fcm cares: empowering kindness to our communities through acts of service and charity.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OTHER GRANTS NOT EXCEEDING 5000 | $100,604 |
| MAKE-A-WISH MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $10,000 |
| CHRISTMAS FOR THE CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| WE LOVE BIRTHDAY PARTIES | $9,500 |
| MT JULIET HELP CENTER | $8,745 |
| SPECIAL KIDS | $7,550 |
| TN COLLEGE OF APPLIED TECHNOLOGY - | $7,500 |
| THE MTSU FOUNDATION-VETERAN ENRICHM | $7,500 |
| ADVANCE CAMP | $6,110 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 83% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE COLLEGE SYSTEM OF TENNESSEE9× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +335%
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE4× · 2021–2025 · $43k · revenue +14%
NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC4× · 2017–2020 · $41k · revenue +213%
Funded once
- SCSIMPLY CHOSENone grant, 2024 · $25k
- HHHumphreys Homeless Coalitionone grant, 2021 · $16k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $14k
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.
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…
Tennessee Kids Belong dramatically improves the experiences and outcomes for children in foster care.
Saving the lives of homeless and unwanted pets in harrison county kentucky and surrounding areas.
Habitat for humanity of williamson-maury (hfhwm) seeks to put god's love into action by partnering with communites to build affordable housing, inspiring hope and life-changing stability for families through homeownership.
To empower individuals living with disabilities and challenges to gain independence
Carolina hill provides safe and caring emergency shelter and supportive services to homeless families focusing efforts to achieve rapid re-housing and developing skills and resources to maintain it.
To improve the quality of life for individuals with severe/profound disabilities by assisting them through high-quality 24 hour, 7 days a week continuous care.
We offer temporary lodging for families having critically ill children. See page Part III for more information.
Our Mission at Welcome House Knoxville is to share the love of Jesus through the ministries of hospitality and friendship. We provide safe and loving homes for individuals and families in transition to permanent housing.
Residential and support services to children and adults with severe and multiple disabilities allowing them the opportunity to lead safe, stable, and personally fulfilling lifestyles in tennessee communities.
Humane society of the tennessee valley, inc. is dedicated to providing lifesaving programs and resources to enrich the lives of people and companion animals in the communities we serve.
To provide affordable housing and financing to low income families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee and the most unlike its peers is Advance Camp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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. 23 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR THE COLLEGE SYSTEM OF TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds Hope For The Warriors ↗
- Who funds RUTHERFORD COUNTY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds MT JULIET HELP CENTER ↗
- Who funds WE LOVE BIRTHDAY PARTIES ↗
- Who funds Humphreys Homeless Coalition ↗
- Who funds AUTISM CARES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE AND MERCY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER SUMTER COUNTY AREA ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE CAMP ↗
- Who funds WORKING DOGS FOR VETS ↗
- Who funds BIG DOGS DONT CRY ↗
- Who funds HICKS STRONG INC ↗
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 · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Nashville Predators Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation 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 organization Fcm Cares Inc 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.