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John D Floyd Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$483k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$76k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.1MHealth$790kHuman Services$409kRecreation & Sports$344kFood & Nutrition$290kCommunity Improvement$268kEmployment$236kReligion$222kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $213k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $196k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB RUTHERFORD CO$15,000
CENTER FOR THE ARTS$15,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL TN$15,000
MTSU FOUNDATION$12,500
MINDFUL CARE$10,000
CHARITY CIRCLE$10,000
LAST CALL 4 GRACE$10,000
SCHAEFER LEGACY PROJECT$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOPE STATION: $3k → 9%SHELBYVILLE-BEDFORD COMMUNITY FOUND: $10k → 13%Greenhouse Ministries: $50k → 9%ABLE Youth: $1k → 4%GREENHOUSE MINISTRIES: $50k → 9%ABLE Youth: $500 → 4%GREENHOUSE MINISTRIES: $50k → 9%FOR OTHERS COLLECTIVE: $40k → 4%FOR OTHERS COLLECTIVE: $25k → 4%Alive Hospice: $20k → 14%OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE: $5k → 14%FIRST OF ALL FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%Alive Hospice: $1k → 14%Archie's Promise: $2k → 9%Archie's Promise: $1k → 9%Archie's Promise Archie & Idalene Formal Shoppe: $1k → 9%Make-A-Wish Middle Tennessee: $1k → 14%Alive Hospice: $1k → 14%ARCHIES PROMISE: $600 → 9%A SOLDIERS CHILD: $5k → 9%Good Shepherd Children's Home: $1k → 9%Good Shepherd Children's Home: $1k → 9%Good Shepherd Children's Home: $1k → 9%BARNABAS VISION: $25k → 9%BARNABAS VISION: $25k → 9%BARNABAS VISION: $25k → 9%BARNABAS VISION: $25k → 9%JOURNEY IN COMMUNITY LIVING: $5k → 9%A SOLDIERS CHILD: $5k → 9%A SOLDIERS CHILD: $5k → 9%JOURNEY IN COMMUNITY LIVING: $5k → 9%A SOLDIERS CHILD: $5k → 9%JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING: $3k → 9%Journeys In Community Living: $3k → 9%Journeys In Community Living: $3k → 9%A Soldier's Child: $2k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 62 repeat orgs$522k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
46

Total granted

$3.7M
$380k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+20%

Still filing today

58%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TG
    TENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $253k · revenue +143%
  • TB
    THE BARNABAS VISION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $100k · revenue +42%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RUTHERFORD CTY
    4× · 2017–2022 · $68k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • MF
    MTSU Foundation Weatherford Chair of Finance MTSU
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • EC
    EMERALD COAST CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $78k · revenue +20%
  • CS
    COLUMBIA STATE COMM COLLEGE FOUNDAT
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Children's Foundation of Memphis
Health
2
One Family Memphis
Human Services
3
Tennessee Kids Belong Inc

Tennessee Kids Belong dramatically improves the experiences and outcomes for children in foster care.

Human Services
4
Tennessee Children's Home Inc

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…

Human Services
5
Empower Tennessee

To promote independence for persons with disabilities and provide guidance, education, and advocacy.

Human Services
6
Imagine Tennessee Better Inc

Social Welfare

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7
Access Services of Middle Tennessee

Provides support services to individuals with disabilities in the form of outreach, training education, consultants and referrals requarding use of assistive technologies.

—
8
Miss Tennessee Scholarship Competition Foundation

Scholarships for candidates

Philanthropy
9
Hope House of Tennessee Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
10
West Tennessee Family Solutions Inc

To provide the highest quality care and opportunities affording individuals with developmental disabilities to lead successful and fulfilling lives withing their communities

Health
11
Tennessee Family Solutions Inc

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.

Health
12
The Pursuit of Happiness for Underserved and Under Poh for Underserved and Under Resourced Youth

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

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee; 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.
04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 118 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/61
Grantees still filing
36/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Rotary Club of Smyrna TN: $262,500 · OtherRotary Club of Smyrna TNSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $250,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKIndividual grant recipient: $220,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMTSU Foundation Weatherford Chair of Finance MTSU: $100,000 · OtherMTSU Foundation Weatherford Chair of Finance MTSUPRIMARY CARE HOPE CLINIC: $84,000 · OtherDISCOVERY CENTER: $81,000 · OtherSENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER OF SMYRNA: $76,000 · OtherMindful Care: $70,000 · Other+63 more: $721,650 · Other+63 moreMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $733,000 · EducationMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE…THE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationTHE CITY SCHOOLS FOUND…+6 more: $59,750 · Education+6 moreSPECIAL KIDS INC: $540,000 · HealthSPECIAL KIDS IN…+7 more: $31,500 · Health+7 moreGREENHOUSE MINISTRIES: $150,000 · Human ServicesGREENHOUSE M…THE BARNABAS VISION INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE BARNABAS…FOR OTHERS COLLECTIVE INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesFOR OTHERS C…POSSIBILITY PLACE: $27,500 · Human ServicesPOSSIBILITY …TUCKER'S HOUSE: $25,500 · Human ServicesTUCKER'S HOU…ALIVE HOSPICE INC: $22,000 · Human ServicesA SOLDIERS CHILD INC: $21,500 · Human ServicesJOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING INC: $17,500 · Human Services+9 more: $37,500 · Human Services+9 moreTENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION: $252,500 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RUTHERFORD CTY: $67,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TENN: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentChild Evangelism Fellowship of Tennessee Inc: $4,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $4,500 · Youth Development+2 more: $2,250 · Youth DevelopmentEMERALD COAST CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $77,500 · Crime & LegalDOORS OF HOPE: $24,750 · Crime & LegalSUCCESSFUL SURVIVORS: $10,000 · Crime & LegalMEN OF VALOR: $5,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $1,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,865,150Education$842,750Health$571,500Human Services$466,500Arts & Culture$272,500Youth Development$128,750Crime & Legal$118,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $733,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetSPECIAL KIDS INC: $540,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetRotary Club of Smyrna TN: $262,500 over 3y, 97% of budgetTENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION: $252,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetGREENHOUSE MINISTRIES: $150,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetTHE BARNABAS VISION INC: $100,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetEMERALD COAST CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $77,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RUTHERFORD CTY: $67,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFOR OTHERS COLLECTIVE INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetENDURE ATHLETICS FOUNDATION INC: $54,500 over 7y, 8.6% of budgetJOURNEY HOME INC: $53,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TENN: $50,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetPOSSIBILITY PLACE: $27,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetTUCKER'S HOUSE: $25,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetDOORS OF HOPE: $24,750 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetALIVE HOSPICE INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetA SOLDIERS CHILD INC: $21,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetRUTHERFORD COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetJOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING INC: $17,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL TENNESSEE: $17,400 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COLLECTIVE AT BUILDING HOPE: $16,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetDR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC: $15,500 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetOPERATION ANDREW GROUP INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSUCCESSFUL SURVIVORS: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetNATIONAL GUARD ASSOCIATION OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetSHELBYVILLE-BEDFORD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetINTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT ONE FOUR - A DAVID PRICE FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEducation Equal Opportunity Group: $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetOPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEACON CENTER OF TENNESSEE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChild Evangelism Fellowship of Tennessee Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN'S HOME: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HOPE STATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRotary Club of Spring Hill Found Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 34% of budgetPROJECT TRANSFORMATION TENNESSEE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAble Youth Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetStepping Stones Safe Haven Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

  • 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TENN ↗
  • Who funds THE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Hca Healthcare Founda…Charity Circle of Mur…Nashville Predators F…United Way of Middle …Christy-Houston Found…The Healing Trust For…Memorial Foundation I…Adams Family Foundati…United Way of South C…Jennings & Rebecca Jo…Adams Family Foundati…
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN52.4× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization John D Floyd Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John D Floyd Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to John D Floyd Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 118 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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