Tennessee · Public charity
Jobs for America's Graduates Tennessee
Jobs for tennessee graduate's mission is to identify students who face barriers to graduation, guiding each one toward postsecondary education, a meaningful career, and productive adulthood. Jtg specialists teach the jobs for america's graduates (jag) model during a student's senior year, then add a 12-month follow up to ensure success…
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 58%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $47,867
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $138,083
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 12
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 58% of the organizations Jobs for America's Graduates Tennessee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $440k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $1.4M | 36% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $586k | 58% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $544k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $179k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $147k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $151k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $25k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy | $239,838 | 6 | 1% |
| Cheatham County School District | $238,698 | 2 | n/a |
| Bedford County Superintendant of Schools | $211,290 | 2 | n/a |
| Ivy Academy Inc | $195,171 | 6 | 1% |
| Oneida Special Schools District | $183,696 | 6 | n/a |
| County of Decatur Superintendent of Schools | $171,116 | 3 | n/a |
| City of Kingsport Tennessee | $151,704 | 2 | n/a |
| Lauderdale County School District | $146,381 | 2 | n/a |
| Benton County Schools | $137,959 | 2 | n/a |
| Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools | $135,588 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy | $239,838 | 6 | 1% |
| Cheatham County School District | $238,698 | 2 | n/a |
| Bedford County Superintendant of Schools | $211,290 | 2 | n/a |
| Ivy Academy Inc | $195,171 | 6 | 1% |
| Oneida Special Schools District | $183,696 | 6 | n/a |
| County of Decatur Superintendent of Schools | $171,116 | 3 | n/a |
| City of Kingsport Tennessee | $151,704 | 2 | n/a |
| Lauderdale County School District | $146,381 | 2 | n/a |
| Benton County Schools | $137,959 | 2 | n/a |
| Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools | $135,588 | 1 | n/a |
| Polk County Department of Education | $129,664 | 2 | n/a |
| Bristol Tennesse City Schools | $111,164 | 2 | n/a |
| Perry County Board of Ed | $105,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Hollow Rock Bruceton Special School District | $95,414 | 1 | n/a |
| Milan Special School District | $94,199 | 2 | n/a |
| Wayne County School System | $93,828 | 5 | n/a |
| Lake County High School | $85,017 | 2 | n/a |
| Franklin County School District | $82,791 | 2 | n/a |
| Morgan Co Career & Technical Ctr | $82,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Stratford STEM Magnet School | $69,406 | 1 | n/a |
| Trezevant Episcopal Home | $53,335 | 1 | 0% |
| McKenzie Special School District Board of Education | $52,294 | 1 | n/a |
| Huntingdon Special School District | $51,514 | 1 | n/a |
| Westwood Endowment Inc | $51,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dunbar Haywood Cnty Training Carver High Schools Alumni Assoc Inc | $35,105 | 1 | n/a |
| Sycamore High School | $33,389 | 1 | n/a |
| Anderson County Government | $17,500 | 3 | n/a |
| South Carroll Special School District | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| South Carroll County Special School District | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hardin County Board of Education | $1,865 | 2 | n/a |
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.
Open a dossier: GenYOUTH Incorporated · Tennessee Health Foundation Inc · East Tennessee Foundation · Share Our Strength · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)
How this is measured
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About Jobs for America's Graduates Tennessee
- How much does Jobs for America's Graduates Tennessee give?
- Jobs for America's Graduates Tennessee reported 31 grants totaling $1,443,815 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 12 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Jobs for America's Graduates Tennessee fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (100%).
- Who are Jobs for America's Graduates Tennessee's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy ($240k), Cheatham County School District ($239k), Bedford County Superintendant of Schools ($211k).
- Does Jobs for America's Graduates Tennessee fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jobs for America's Graduates Tennessee?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include GenYOUTH Incorporated, Tennessee Health Foundation Inc, East Tennessee Foundation.
- Where is Jobs for America's Graduates Tennessee based?
- Jobs for America's Graduates Tennessee is based in TN.
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