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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.

$232k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$285kCommunity Improvement$168kHuman Services$85kHousing & Shelter$75kPublic Safety & Disaster$73kArts & Culture$61kCivil Rights$50kInternational$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $169,250, the rows itemized in this filing. The $232,375 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $63,125 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

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$432k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TAMPA$20,000
BUILDING LIVES FOUNDATION$20,000
FIRST CONTACT$17,500
FEEDING TAMPA BAY$12,500
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$10,000
THISTLE FARMS$10,000
OPERATION ENCORE$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$10,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MID TN$10,000
EQUAL PLATES PROJECT WEGIVEASHARE$10,000
OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE$10,000
NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT$10,000
ASSOCIATION OF NATIONAL PARK RANGER$7,250
FRIENDS OF JOHN PRINE MEMORIAL PARK$6,000
CITY OF ROCHESTER KY$6,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%COLABORATIVA LA MILPA: $10k → 12%PORTERS CALL: $25k → 4%CONEXION AMERICAS: $20k → 14%TN JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS: $10k → 14%OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
CA
KY
WV
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
FL
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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$346k · 5 repeat orgs$788k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
33

Total granted

$346k
$646k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+14%

Still filing today

80%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther
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

  • 2T
    211 Tampa Bay Cares Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $145k · revenue +3%
  • TF
    THISTLE FARMS INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +114%
  • RI
    RAPHAH INSTITUTE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • IT
    INCLUSION TENNESSEE
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • MO
    MUSICIANS ON CALL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +59%
  • TK
    THE KEEP A BREAST FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +15%
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
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
2
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
3
Farmer Foodshare Inc

Our mission is to increase access to fresh, local food for all while supporting the viability of marginalized farmers to create a more equitable food system.

Food & Nutrition
4
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
5
Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc

To lead a network of partners and unite the community to eliminate hunger by feeding, nourishing, and empowering those we serve.

Food & Nutrition
6
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
7
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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8
Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc

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

Housing & Shelter
9
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
10
Feed America First of Tennessee

Feed america first is a murfreesboro, tn based food ministry focused upon hunger relief in small towns and rural communities in middle tn and parts of al, ky and ms. since 2000 faf has distributed enough food for over 150,000,000 meals to…

Food & Nutrition
11
Mississippi Food Network Inc

To relieve poverty-related hunger by distributing donated and purchased food and grocery products through a network of member churches and nonprofit organizations; to provide nutrition education to the needy; and to emphasize advocacy and…

Food & Nutrition
12
Hunger Free Vermont Inc

To end the injustice of hunger for everyone and prioritize the people most affected by hunger to make a permanent systemic change.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of John Prine Memorial Park At Rochester Dam. 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

44 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. 44 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
28/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INCLUSION TENNESSEE: $100,000 · OtherINCLUSION TENNESSEETHISTLE FARMS INC: $75,000 · OtherTHISTLE FARMS INCROOM IN THE INN INC: $61,041 · OtherROOM IN THE INN INCHOPE IN THE HILLS: $25,000 · OtherBUILDING LIVES FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SUNCOAST INC: $20,000 · OtherThe Mosaic Institute: $25,000 · OtherTENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION: $25,000 · OtherRENEWAL HOUSE INC: $25,000 · OtherEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $18,374 · Other+12 more: $124,500 · Other+12 more211 Tampa Bay Cares Inc: $145,000 · Community Improvement211 Tampa Bay Car…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 COAL…CONEXION AMERICAS: $20,000 · Human ServicesCONEXION AMER…THE GULFPORT MULTIPURPOSE SENIOR CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE GULFPORT …Colaborativa La Milpa: $10,000 · Human ServicesColaborativa …CENTRAL VERMONT COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL VERMO…OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE: $10,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION STA…CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCAPSTONE COMM…TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS: $10,000 · Human ServicesTENNESSEE JUS…Charity Navigator: $5,000 · Human ServicesMUSICIANS ON CALL INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICIANS…COUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCOUNTRY M…ACTORS BRIDGE ENSEMBLE THEATER OF NASHVILLE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureACTORS BR…MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICARES…OPERATION ENCORE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureOPERATION…COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $45,000 · InternationalHANDICAP INTERNATIONAL: $22,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $20,000 · InternationalMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $12,500 · Food & NutritionNASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TN: $7,500 · Food & NutritionTHE KEEP A BREAST FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationAssociation of National Park Rangers: $7,250 · Education
Other$518,915Community Improvement$175,000Human Services$135,000Arts & Culture$95,000International$87,500Food & Nutrition$65,000Education$57,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget211 Tampa Bay Cares Inc: $145,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $75,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMUSICIANS ON CALL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE KEEP A BREAST FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPORTERS CALL: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNATIONAL COALITION FOR HOMELESS VETERANS: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRENEWAL HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Mosaic Institute: $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% 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 budgetCONEXION AMERICAS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBUILDING LIVES FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SUNCOAST INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRAPHAH INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $18,374 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEllas House: $15,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCOUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GULFPORT MULTIPURPOSE SENIOR CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetACTORS BRIDGE ENSEMBLE THEATER OF NASHVILLE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCO-OPERATE WNC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetColaborativa La Milpa: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEALING HOUSING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPORTS CREATIVE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCENTRAL VERMONT COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY SHARES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TN: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAssociation of National Park Rangers: $7,250 over 1y, 11% of budgetFRIENDS OF JOHN PRINE MEMORIAL PARK: $6,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetCharity Navigator: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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…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

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 Hello in There Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hello in There Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home