· Private foundation
McCauley-Lindsay Charities of Tenn
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $373k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200,000 |
| ROOM IN THE INN | $150,000 |
| HEAVEN SOUTH (THE STORE) | $146,682 |
| SHOWER UP | $118,131 |
| ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE | $116,870 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - DAVIDSON CO | $115,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $97,014 |
| PASTORAL COUNSELING CENTERS OF TN | $59,869 |
| THISTLE FARMS | $59,696 |
| MENDING HEARTS | $56,425 |
| RENEWAL HOUSE | $54,993 |
| THE MARY PARRISH CENTER | $50,337 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - WILSON CO | $50,000 |
| AGAPE | $46,182 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +59% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 23 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $754k 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
- NRNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION2× · 2017–2023 · $693k · revenue +34%
- DIDISMAS INC4× · 2017–2024 · $651k · revenue +44%
- RHRENEWAL HOUSE INC4× · 2017–2024 · $641k · revenue +178%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - CHEATHAM DIone grant, 2023 · $150k
- SCSENIOR CITIZENS INC50 FORWARDone grant, 2017 · $136k
- STST THOMAS HEALTH SERVICES FUNDone grant, 2018 · $127k
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.
Rahab House is deeply committed to the rescue, refuge, and restoration of human trafficking survivors. We provide comprehensive support that encompasses immediate safety and connections to long-term restorative care in alignment with the…
Our Mission at Welcome House Knoxville is to share the love of Jesus through the ministries of hospitality and friendship. We provide safe and loving homes for individuals and families in transition to permanent housing.
The mission of My Fathers House Nashville (MFHN) is to provide shelter, parenting education, recovery information and life skills for fathers transitioning out of institutional settings or homelessness.
The Mend House is a sober living community for men, in Knoxville, Tn. which empowers them to gain control over their actions, decisions and choices. The Mend House allows men to enjoy clean, sober and stable housing for up to 2 years while…
To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.
To provide substance abuse treatment and rehabilitation programs to women in-and-around the memphis tennessee area.
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.
Open table of nashville is a non-profit, interfaith, community that disrupts the cycles of poverty, journeys with the marginalized and provides education about issues of homelessness.
People who have just been released from prison are typically stigmatized, overlooked, and pigeonholed by society. when they walk into project return, they discover that here they are valued, heard, and encouraged. while reduction of…
Our mission is to lead our community by serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with help, hope, and healing, in the spirit of excellence, under the call of christ.
The mission of OutsideIN is to support women in recovery and their children by offering wrap around services, case management, and alcohol and drug relapse prevention training in a residential recovery program where they also have access…
Memphis union mission exists to glorify god and make disciples of jesus christ by ministering to the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of men and women who are homeless or destitute.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is American Humane Association. 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 29 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
51 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. 51 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 NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds DISMAS INC ↗
- Who funds RENEWAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds ONE GENERATION AWAY ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds MENDING HEARTS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEN OF VALOR ↗
- Who funds SILOAM HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONS MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OUR PLACE NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN ↗
- Who funds Shower Up ↗
- Who funds My Friend's House Family and Children Services Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MARY PARRISH CENTER ↗
- Who funds ICM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARK CENTER 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: Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Frist Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Kharis Foundation · Dettwiller Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn
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 McCauley-Lindsay Charities of Tenn 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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