How much did JAMES R MEADOWS JR FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of JAMES R MEADOWS JR FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k18 grants · $68k
$10k–50k18 grants · $326k
$50k–250k7 grants · $735k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$24M

Total assets

Largest grants

FISK UNIVERSITY$210,000
AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE$100,000
CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS$100,000
PEABODY COLLEGE OF VANDERBILT$100,000
MERCY CORPS$100,000
LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE$75,000
BACKFIELD IN MOTION$50,000
WPLN$30,000
YWCA OF NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE$30,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$25,000
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$25,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$25,000
PRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES$25,000
MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER$20,000
EQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION$20,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$8.3M · 85 repeat orgs$409k to everyone else

85 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.3M

$274k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

+67%

Still filing today

49%

32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationCrime & LegalPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

FU
FISK UNIVERSITY
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +49%
WS
WEBB SCHOOL
8× · 2017–2024 · $599k · revenue +41%
PT
PRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES
8× · 2017–2024 · $320k · revenue +25%

Funded once

UW
UNITED WAY OF KENTUCKYgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +219%
CR
CUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACTgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +614%
TF
TENNESSEANS FOR ALTERNATIVES TO THE DEATH PENALTY
one grant, 2017 · $25k

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.

Nashville Technology Council

Leading voice & advocate for middle tn's information technology ecosystem & tech professionals.

Community Improvement

Persist Nashville

Increase college graduation rates of nashville, tn students.

Education

Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau

The mission of the Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau is to maximize the economic contribution of the convention & tourism industry to Nashville, TN, which is the city's second largest industry. This industry provides jobs to…

Community Improvement

Tn Afl-Cio Labor Council

Labor organization

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Leadership Tennessee Inc

Fosters collaborative, non-partisan dialogue on state issues, connecting network of leaders

Public Benefit

Nashville Parks Foundation

Enhances metro nashville public parks & recreational facilities in davidson county tn

Environment

Harpeth Conservancy

To restore and protect clean water and healthy ecosystems for rivers in tennessee by employing scientific expertise and collaborative relationships to develop, promote, and support broad community stewardship and action.

Environment

Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville Inc

Arts & business council of greater nashville supports and promotes the arts by driving collaboration between arts and business that contribute to the creativity, vitality, and prosperity of greater nashville/the regions/the city.

Crime & Legal

Tenngreen Land Conservancy

Conserving land where people and nature can thrive. tenngreen land conservancy works to create parks, establish wildlife corridors, expand existing protected public lands, & enhance public recreation opportunities.

Recreation & Sports

Oasis Center Inc

Oasis center is one of the nation's leading youthserving organizations, offering safety and intervention to nashville's most vulnerable youth, while seeking to also teach young people how to transform the conditions that create problems…

Community Improvement

Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc

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

Housing & Shelter

Impacthealth-Tn

Foster and train a sustainable network of health workers with ties to the community

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Webb School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/60

the rest of the field

11%

4,006/36,340

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

57 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

55/57

Grantees still filing

46/57

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$4,094,950Education$3,412,500Crime & Legal$380,000Recreation & Sports$245,000Environment$210,000Philanthropy$182,250Arts & Culture$145,500

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.

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.

Memorial Foundation IncTN64.3× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Frist Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist · Horatio B & Willie J Buntin Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc · The Healing Trust

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 organisation JAMES R MEADOWS JR 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CONTINENTAL T-BELLES TRACK CLUB.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing; revenue up 3.3× since.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 621259551 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CONTINENTAL T-BELLES TRACK CLUB, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 80% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to James R Meadows Jr Foundation?

Find your warmest path to James R Meadows Jr Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

JAMES R MEADOWS JR FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

57 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to James R Meadows Jr Foundation?

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JAMES R MEADOWS JR FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

57 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to James R Meadows Jr Foundation?

More from the funding graph