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Hello in There Foundation

Organizing programs and making grants to organizations that support those who are marginalized, discriminated against, or otherwise forgotten.

$364k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$128k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Health$285kCommunity Improvement$168kHuman Services$85kHousing & Shelter$75kPublic Safety & Disaster$73kArts & Culture$61kCivil Rights$50kInternational$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $267,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $363,930 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $96,430 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $128k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$279k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST CONTACT 211 TAMPA BAY CARES$127,500
MANNA FOOD BANK$25,000
THISTLE FARMS$15,000
ELLAS HOUSE$15,000
COLABORATIVA LA MILPA$10,000
COOPERATE WNC$10,000
MUSICARES$10,000
GULFPORT SENIOR CENTER FOUNDATION$10,000
SWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND$10,000
ACTORS BRIDGE ENSEMBLE$10,000
TN JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS$10,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TN$7,500
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NE TN$7,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NATIONAL COALITION FOR HOMELESS VET: $25k → 14%GULFPORT SENIOR CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $10k → 9%APPALACHIAN CITIZENS LAW CENTER: $5k → 29%CENTRAL VERMONT COUNCIL ON AGING: $10k → 9%PORTERS CALL: $25k → 4%COLABORATIVA LA MILPA: $10k → 12%CONEXION AMERICAS: $20k → 14%TN JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
NY
CA
KY
WV
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

20%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$191k · 4 repeat orgs$773k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
22

Total granted

$191k
$521k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+15%

Still filing today

75%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHealthOther

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

  • TF
    THISTLE FARMS INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $65k · revenue +114%
  • RI
    ROOM IN THE INN INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $61k
  • COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $45k · revenue -6%

Funded once

  • IT
    INCLUSION TENNESSEE
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • TK
    THE KEEP A BREAST FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +15%
  • MO
    MUSICIANS ON CALL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +59%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Nashville Food Project Inc

The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.

Food & Nutrition
2
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
3
Council On Aging of Greater Nashville Dba Age Well Middle Tennessee

The Council on Aging of Greater Nashville d/b/a AgeWell Middle Tennessee (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to serve as a trusted resource and to advance solutions for the critical needs of older adults and…

Human Services
4
Nashville Cares

Nashville cares exists to end the hiv epidemic, promote comprehensive sexual health and end sexual health stigmatization and discrimination through prevention, education, treatment, support, advocacy, and strategic partnership.

Health
5
Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc

Lead our community's efforts to house, support, empower and advocate for families experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
6
Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence

Assist domestic violence and sexual assault programs, law enforcement, courts, community organizations and the general public: training and technical assistance.

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7
Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise

Mission: to create economically diverse neighborhoods filled with financially empowered citizens and housing for all.vision: all chattanoogans can afford a safe place in a strong neighborhood to call home. belief: we believe the future of…

Housing & Shelter
8
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
9
Tennessee Homeless Solutions

To reduce homelessness and improve family stability by increasing housing resources, administration of hud-mckinney vento funds, and support services through collaborative efforts with partner organizations, when available.

Housing & Shelter
10
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
11
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
12
Needlink Nashville

Provide needy families and individuals with rent and utilities assistance in order to prevent their eviction or termination of utility services. also provide food and other assistance to needy families and individuals.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Raphah Institute and the most unlike its peers is The Mosaic Institute. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyImmigrant Worker SupportFood Banks and PantriesMilitary Veterans SupportAddiction Recovery ServicesCommunity FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersCommunity FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…Senior Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsPregnancy Support ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Cancer Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%6%<5yr14%15%5–10yr17%12%10–20yr13%44%20–35yr11%15%35–55yr24%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%3%<5yr14%10%5–10yr17%7%10–20yr13%62%20–35yr11%7%35–55yr24%10%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/38
the rest of the field
13%
4,627/36,362

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.

04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
22/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INCLUSION TENNESSEE — $100,000 · OtherINCLUSION TENNESSEETHISTLE FARMS INC — $65,000 · OtherTHISTLE FARMS INCROOM IN THE INN INC — $61,041 · OtherROOM IN THE INN INCHOPE IN THE HILLS — $25,000 · OtherHOPE IN THE HILLSCOMFORT CONNECTIONS — $15,000 · OtherRENEWAL HOUSE INC — $25,000 · OtherRENEWAL HOUSE INCA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $15,000 · OtherMANNA FOOD BANK INC — $25,000 · OtherMANNA FOOD BANK INCEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $18,374 · OtherEllas House — $15,000 · Other+7 more — $65,000 · Other+7 more211 Tampa Bay Cares Inc — $127,500 · Community Improvement211 Tampa Bay Care…RAPHAH INSTITUTE — $20,000 · Community ImprovementRAPHAH INSTITUTECO-OPERATE WNC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementCO-OPERATE WNCPORTERS CALL — $25,000 · Human ServicesPORTERS CALLNATIONAL COALITION FOR HOMELESS VETERANS — $25,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL COALI…CONEXION AMERICAS — $20,000 · Human ServicesCONEXION AMERI…THE GULFPORT MULTIPURPOSE SENIOR CENTER FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE GULFPORT M…CENTRAL VERMONT COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL VERMON…CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCAPSTONE COMMU…Colaborativa La Milpa — $10,000 · Human ServicesColaborativa L…TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS — $10,000 · Human ServicesTENNESSEE JUST…Charity Navigator — $5,000 · Human ServicesMUSICIANS ON CALL INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICIANS…COUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureCOUNTRY M…MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICARES…ACTORS BRIDGE ENSEMBLE THEATER OF NASHVILLE INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureACTORS BR…COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $45,000 · InternationalHANDICAP INTERNATIONAL — $22,500 · InternationalTHE KEEP A BREAST FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationThe Mosaic Institute — $25,000 · Civil RightsTENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION — $25,000 · Civil Rights
Other$429,415Community Improvement$157,500Human Services$125,000Arts & Culture$85,000International$67,500Education$50,000Civil Rights$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budget211 Tampa Bay Cares Inc — $127,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC — $65,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE KEEP A BREAST FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetMUSICIANS ON CALL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPORTERS CALL — $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetThe Mosaic Institute — $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetRENEWAL HOUSE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL COALITION FOR HOMELESS VETERANS — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHANDICAP INTERNATIONAL — $22,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAPHAH INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCONEXION AMERICAS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $18,374 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEllas House — $15,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCOUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GULFPORT MULTIPURPOSE SENIOR CENTER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetCENTRAL VERMONT COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPORTS CREATIVE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCO-OPERATE WNC — $10,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetColaborativa La Milpa — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY SHARES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetTENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHEALING HOUSING INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetACTORS BRIDGE ENSEMBLE THEATER OF NASHVILLE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TN — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Hca Healthcare Founda…Memorial Foundation I…The Healing Trust For…United Way of Middle …Vanderbilt UniversityThe Frist FoundationJoe C Davis FoundationDorothy Cate and Thom…The Dan and Margaret …Nashville Predators F…Gibson Gives Foundati…
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN26.9× affinity13 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 · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Vanderbilt University · The Frist Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc · Nashville Predators Foundation · Gibson Gives Foundation Dba Gibson Gives

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 Hello in There Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 84%
  • Capstone Community Action Inc — 84% of income from government
  • Central Vermont Council On Aging Inc — 74% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Hello in There Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hello in There Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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