· Private foundation
John D Floyd Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $213k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $196k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER OF SMYRNA | $76,000 |
| SPECIAL KIDS | $70,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| BARNABAS VISION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL TN | $15,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB RUTHERFORD CO | $15,000 |
| MTSU FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| MINDFUL CARE | $10,000 |
| LAST CALL 4 GRACE | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH CENTRA | $10,000 |
| SCHAEFER LEGACY PROJECT | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $409k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +33% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 9 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k 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
- TGTENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $253k · revenue +143%
- TBTHE BARNABAS VISION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $100k · revenue +42%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RUTHERFORD CTY4× · 2017–2022 · $68k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- MFMTSU Foundation Weatherford Chair of Finance MTSUone grant, 2019 · $100k
- ECEMERALD COAST CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $78k · revenue +20%
- RQRHS QUARTERBACK BOOSTERS CLUB INCone grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
Tennessee Kids Belong dramatically improves the experiences and outcomes for children in foster care.
Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…
To promote independence for persons with disabilities and provide guidance, education, and advocacy.
Social Welfare
Provides support services to individuals with disabilities in the form of outreach, training education, consultants and referrals requarding use of assistive technologies.
Scholarships for candidates
By creating a safe and structured two year residential program the Hope House of Tennessee will aim to equip and empower personal and educational growth economic self-sufficiency and a deeper understanding of Christs unconditional love.
To provide the highest quality care and opportunities affording individuals with developmental disabilities to lead successful and fulfilling lives withing their communities
Residential and support services to children and adults with severe and multiple disabilities allowing them the opportunity to lead safe, stable, and personally fulfilling lifestyles in tennessee communities.
By working intimately within the fabric of communities, we strive to break the cycle of poverty offering a comprehensiv support systrem that fosters resilence empowerment and lasti change a movement to restoring hope building bright futures
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee and the most unlike its peers is Rutherford Arts Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 118 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 MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Rotary Club of Smyrna TN ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENHOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE BARNABAS VISION INC ↗
- Who funds EMERALD COAST CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RUTHERFORD CTY ↗
- Who funds FOR OTHERS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ENDURE ATHLETICS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TENN ↗
- Who funds POSSIBILITY PLACE ↗
- Who funds TUCKER'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds DOORS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds A SOLDIERS CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds RUTHERFORD COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds THE COLLECTIVE AT BUILDING HOPE ↗
- Who funds DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC ↗
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 · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Charity Circle of Murfreesboro · Nashville Predators Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Christy-Houston Foundation Inc · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Memorial Foundation Inc · Adams Family Foundation I · United Way of South Central Tennessee · Jennings & Rebecca Jones Foundation Inc · Adams Family Foundation II
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 John D Floyd Charitable Foundation Inc 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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