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Jc Garrett III Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UT VOLUNTEER ATHLETIC FUND | $12,515 |
| UNITED WAY OF SUMNER COUNTY | $10,000 |
| GOODPASTURE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| VOLUNTEER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| 100 CLUB OF SUMNER COUNTY | $6,000 |
| GOODLETTSVILLE LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL | $5,500 |
| FULL COUNT MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| LEADERSHIP INSTITUTERILEY GAINES CENTER | $5,000 |
| HENDERSONVILLE CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| SHACKLE ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE | $3,000 |
| BEACON CENTER OF TN | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN BIBLE PROJECT | $2,500 |
| FORWARD SUMNER | $2,500 |
| HOLIDAY FEST OF SUMNER COUNTY INCHENDERSONVILLE CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–23, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +73% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- GPGRACE PLACE MINISTRY INC6× · 2017–2022 · $41k · revenue +541%
- FCFull Count Ministries6× · 2019–2024 · $28k · revenue +75%
- OHOAK HILL SCHOOL6× · 2017–2023 · $25k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- NPNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +151%
- BBBEECH BASEBALL DUGOUT CLUBone grant, 2022 · $9k
- MBMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLEone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +6%
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.
To equip men to initiate and lead for christ in their homes, churches, communities and the marketplace.
To provide high-quality patient-centered services that support healthy living among the uninsured and the under-served families in the greater williamson county.
Non-denominational christian mission whose purpose is to assist those in need of shelter, food and clothing in the henderson county, north carolina area.
To partner with families in providing students a christ-centered and academically challenging education equipping them with a biblical worldview as they grow in understandings, attitudes, skills, and in favor with god and man.
Hickman county senior citizens operates a senior citizens center for the benefit of senior citizens in hickman county.
The senior citizens center operates for the benefit of senior citizens in franklin county.
Our mission is to affirm the value of life by providing a network of care. We strive to empower mothers and fathers experiencing planned and unplanned pregnancies with healthy options through medical services, education, mentoring and…
The united way of south central tennessee's mission is to improve lives by advancing opportunities for education, health, and financial stability for all. its vision is to be the primary community solutions leader for human services.
The college's mission is to train christians to serve god and his church.
Business development of members, economic growth of the region, and the highest quality of life for the ocoee region of tennessee.
Plan and develop resource conservation and development programs
The tennessee justice center (tjc) advocates on behalf of low-income tennesseans in areas of public policy having the greatest impact on their health and welfare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Decisions Choices and Options Inc. 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 21 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 78 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 GRACE PLACE MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SUMNER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Full Count Ministries ↗
- Who funds OAK HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SALVUS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GOODLETTSVILLE HELP CENTER ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE50 HENDERSONVILLE ↗
- Who funds FORWARD SUMNER ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HENDERSONVILLE ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DECISIONS CHOICES AND OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds LIVING SENT MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HENDERSONVILLE CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR SERVICE LEAGUE OF HENDERSONVILLE ↗
- Who funds HENDERSONVILLE CITIZENS POLICE ACADEMY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GOODLETTSVILLE BASEBALL ↗
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 · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Goodall Family Foundation · Carolyn Smith Foundation · United Way of Sumner County · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Bruce Family Foundation · Andrea Waitt Carlton Family Foundation · Ebs Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Servant Foundation
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 Jc Garrett III Family 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.
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.
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