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McCauley-Lindsay Charities of Tenn at a glance

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McCauley-Lindsay Charities of Tenn

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$5.3MHuman Services$3.3MFood & Nutrition$1.6MHealth$1.5MCrime & Legal$1.1MReligion$650kYouth Development$425kEmployment$293kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $373k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$50,337
Median grant
1
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHOWER UP: $118k → 10%CATHOLIC COMFORT CARE HOMES: $45k → 14%GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES: $154k → 4%GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES: $100k → 4%MY FRIENDS HOUSE: $40k → 4%MY FRIENDS HOUSE: $35k → 4%MY FRIENDS HOUSE FAMILY AND CHILDRE: $30k → 4%GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES: $14k → 4%GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES: $5k → 4%THE MARY PARRISH CENTER: $50k → 14%MARY PARRISH CENTER: $48k → 14%PASTORAL COUNSELING CENTERS OF TN: $60k → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $149k → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $117k → 14%OPERATION STANDDOWN: $250k → 14%OPERATION STAND DOWN: $100k → 14%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 40 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
29

Total granted

$12M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+32%

Still filing today

75%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $754k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthReligionHousing & ShelterEducationCrime & LegalOther
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

  • NR
    NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION
    2× · 2017–2023 · $693k · revenue +34%
  • DI
    DISMAS INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $651k · revenue +44%
  • RH
    RENEWAL HOUSE INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $641k · revenue +178%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - CHEATHAM DI
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • SC
    SENIOR CITIZENS INC50 FORWARD
    one grant, 2017 · $136k
  • ST
    ST THOMAS HEALTH SERVICES FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $127k
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
Rahab House

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…

Human Services
2
Welcome House Knoxville

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.

Housing & Shelter
3
My Fathers House Nashville

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.

Housing & Shelter
4
The Mend House Sober Living Community

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…

Health
5
Good Samaritan Mission Inc

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.

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6
Grace House of Memphis Tennessee

To provide substance abuse treatment and rehabilitation programs to women in-and-around the memphis tennessee area.

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7
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
8
Open Table of Nashville Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
9
Project Return Inc

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…

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10
City Rescue Mission Inc

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.

Human Services
11
OutsideIN

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…

Employment
12
Memphis Union Misson

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.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission; 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.
04the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 78 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)
51/51
Grantees still filing
40/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - DAVIDSON CO: $1,730,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - DAVIDSON COROOM IN THE INN INC: $813,274 · OtherROOM IN THE INN INCIndividual grant recipient: $750,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDISMAS INC: $650,852 · OtherDISMAS INCHabitat for Humanity: $567,469 · OtherHabitat for HumanityTHISTLE FARMS INC: $423,096 · OtherFEED AMERICA FIRST: $413,926 · OtherTHE BRIDGE MINISTRY INC: $297,243 · Other+39 more: $3,243,895 · Other+39 moreRENEWAL HOUSE INC: $640,978 · HealthRENEWAL HO…MENDING HEARTS INC: $321,069 · HealthMENDING HE…INTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE: $288,050 · HealthINTERFAITH…+4 more: $114,131 · Health+4 moreOPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE: $350,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION …GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC: $273,257 · Human ServicesGRACEWORKS…ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $265,590 · Human ServicesST LUKE'S …Shower Up: $118,131 · Human ServicesShower UpMy Friend's House Family and Children Services Inc: $104,983 · Human ServicesMy Friend'…THE MARY PARRISH CENTER: $98,833 · Human ServicesTHE MARY P…PASTORAL COUNSELING CENTERS OF TENN: $59,869 · Human ServicesCatholic Comfort Care Homes: $45,000 · Human Services+1 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $693,284 · Housing & ShelterNASHVILLE…THE NEXT DOOR INC: $177,744 · Housing & ShelterTHE NEXT …OUR PLACE NASHVILLE: $150,963 · Housing & ShelterOUR PLACE…Compassionate Hands Inc: $79,370 · Housing & ShelterCompassio…NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC: $70,940 · Housing & ShelterNASHVILLE…MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC: $242,138 · ReligionNATIONS MINISTRY CENTER: $174,254 · ReligionICM FOUNDATION INC: $97,411 · ReligionCOTTAGE COVE COMPANY: $63,111 · Religion+2 more: $26,219 · ReligionBRIGHTSTONE INC: $500,388 · EducationTHE CONTRIBUTOR INC: $24,026 · Education+1 more: $9,979 · EducationONE GENERATION AWAY: $532,179 · Civil Rights
Other$8,889,755Health$1,364,228Human Services$1,330,663Housing & Shelter$1,172,301Religion$603,133Education$534,393Civil Rights$532,179

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $693,284 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetDISMAS INC: $650,852 over 4y, 16% of budgetRENEWAL HOUSE INC: $640,978 over 4y, 11% of budgetONE GENERATION AWAY: $532,179 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetBRIGHTSTONE INC: $500,388 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $423,096 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetOPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE: $350,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetMENDING HEARTS INC: $321,069 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetINTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE: $288,050 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetGRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC: $273,257 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $265,590 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetNASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC: $263,080 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetTENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC: $250,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC: $242,138 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMEN OF VALOR: $184,053 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSILOAM HEALTH: $182,152 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetTHE NEXT DOOR INC: $177,744 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONS MINISTRY CENTER: $174,254 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetOUR PLACE NASHVILLE: $150,963 over 2y, 43% of budgetBIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN: $129,004 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetShower Up: $118,131 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetTHE MARY PARRISH CENTER: $98,833 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetICM FOUNDATION INC: $97,411 over 1y, 61% of budgetPARK CENTER INC: $96,348 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOUR KIDS INC: $95,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC: $94,750 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetCompassionate Hands Inc: $79,370 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetNASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC: $70,940 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMATTHEW 25 INC: $65,784 over 1y, 10% of budgetCOTTAGE COVE COMPANY: $63,111 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPASTORAL COUNSELING CENTERS OF TENN: $59,869 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetOASIS CENTER INC: $58,404 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFRANK TOWN OPEN HEARTS MINISTRY INC: $54,900 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetHIGH HOPES INC: $48,202 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCatholic Comfort Care Homes: $45,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetSTARS NASHVILLE: $39,043 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NEW BEGINNINGS CENTER: $36,164 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetHEALING HOUSING INC: $34,749 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSamaritan Recovery Community Inc: $27,814 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CONTRIBUTOR INC: $24,026 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMy Bag My Story: $15,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetLUKE 14-12: $15,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES OF CLARKSVILLE: $14,456 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetLAMBSCROFT MINISTRIES INC DBA THE COOKERY: $13,526 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFINAL COMMAND MINISTRIES: $12,693 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE CORPORATION: $11,110 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFIRST STEPS INC: $9,979 over 1y, 0.3% 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 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 ↗

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.

Hca Healthcare Founda…The Community Foundat…United Way of Middle …Memorial Foundation I…The Frist FoundationDorothy Cate and Thom…Nashville Predators F…The Healing Trust For…Kharis FoundationDettwiller FoundationJoe C Davis FoundationLouie M & Betty M Phi…
Hca Healthcare FoundationTN69.9× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 McCauley-Lindsay Charities of Tenn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McCauley-Lindsay Charities of Tenn. 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
    20report 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 McCauley-Lindsay Charities of Tenn 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 78 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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