· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $433k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $999k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEDFORD COUNTY SUPERINTENDANT OF SCHOOLS | $138,083 |
| HOLLOW ROCK BRUCETON SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $95,414 |
| JAMES LAWSON HIGH SCHOOL | $72,215 |
| LAUDERDALE COUNTY SCHOOLS | $72,078 |
| BENTON COUNTY SCHOOLS | $71,477 |
| POLK COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION | $70,487 |
| HARPETH HIGH SCHOOL | $70,218 |
| STRATFORD STEM MAGNET SCHOOL | $69,406 |
| CHEATHAM COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $68,480 |
| MAPLEWOOD HIGH | $63,373 |
| TREZEVANT HIGH | $53,335 |
| MCKENZIE SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCATION | $52,294 |
| HUNTINGDON SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $51,514 |
| WESTWOOD HIGH | $51,000 |
| DECATUR COUNTY SCHOOLS | $48,691 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $582k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CGCHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY6× · 2020–2025 · $240k · revenue +43%
- CCCHEATHAM COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT2× · 2023–2025 · $239k
- BCBEDFORD COUNTY SUPERINTENDANT OF SCHOOLS2× · 2024–2025 · $211k
Funded once
- MNMETROPOLITAN NASHVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2025 · $136k
- HRHOLLOW ROCK BRUCETON SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2025 · $95k
- SSSTRATFORD STEM MAGNET SCHOOLone grant, 2025 · $69k
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.
4 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. 4 of the 30 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jobs for America's Graduates Tennessee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jobs for America's Graduates Tennessee. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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