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Middle Tennessee Electric Sharingchange Inc

Sharingchange is middle tennessee electric membership corporation's charitable foundation whose sole purpose is to give back to the communities in the service area of middle tennessee electric membership corporation which serves approximately 349,500 farms, homes and businesses in middle tennessee.

$689k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
States reached
$131k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of MIDDLE TENNESSEE ELECTRIC SHARINGCHANGE INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 17 grants below total $278,207 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $689,014 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $410,807 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $131k
$10,000
Median grant
States reached
$464k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIDDLE TENNESSEE ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP$131,212
AMERICAN RED CROSS NASHVILLE AREA$10,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$10,000
THE REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING$10,000
JOURNEYS IN COMMUNITY LIVING$10,000
HEAR NASHVILLE$10,000
THE CENTER FOR COURAGEOUS KIDS$10,000
AUTISM CAREER TRAINING (ACT)$10,000
GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES$10,000
TUCKER'S HOUSE$10,000
BRIGHTSTONE INC$10,000
BARNABAS VISION$9,000
PERMOBIL FOUNDATION$7,923
MERCY COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE$7,572
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%JOBS FOR TN GRADUATES: $10k → 14%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF MID TN: $10k → 4%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

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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
2
Tennessee Kids Belong Inc

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

Human Services
3
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
4
Casa of the Tennessee Valley

The mission of the organization is to provide a powerful voice for abused and neglected children by advocating for each child, within the court's jurisdiction, in order to ensure safety, permancy and an opportunity to thrive.

Human Services
5
Mcminn County Emergency Rescue Squad

The rescue squad is established to operate and maintain a volunteer emergency and rescue squad for mcminn county and to render service and aid upon the occurrence of accidents or emergencies in mcminn county, tn and/or other areas when…

Health
6
Easter Seals Tennessee Inc

The mission of easterseals tennessee is to make profound positive differences in the lives of people with disabilities as they learn, work, and play in their communities.

Health
7
Kids Place a Child Advocacy Center

To reduce the trauma of child abuse by providing a child oriented environment for the coordinated and multi-disciplinary investigation, intervention, and treatment of child sexual and severe physical abuse.

Crime & Legal
8
Arc of Williamson County

Providing advocacy, research, and education to individuals with intellectual and developmental disability and their families.

9
Williamson County Children's Advocacy Center Inc

To provide a safe place to report child abuse, reduce the emotional trauma for children and non-offending family members, and extend professional services to protect the intergrity of an investigation.

Crime & Legal
10
Blount County Youth Court Inc

Tennessee Youth Court (TYC) is a teen-driven juvenile delinquency prevention/intervention diversion program based on restorative justice.

11
The Women's Advocacy Center

The mission of the women's advocacy center is to empower and support survivors and victims of domestic abuse in east shelby county, tennessee. we do this using a 24-month, vertical abuse intervention model to educate women on how to gain…

Religion
12
Empower Tennessee

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

Human Services

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 Fifteenth Judicial District Child Advocacy Center. 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

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
15/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MIDDLE TENNESSEE ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP — $131,212 · OtherMIDDLE TENNESSEE ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIPWILLIAMSON COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD — $19,526 · OtherWILLIAMSON COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD+24 more — $209,605 · Other+24 moreMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $10,000 · Human ServicesWILSON COUNTY CHRISTMAS FOR ALL — $10,000 · Human ServicesJOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES TENNESSEE — $9,855 · Human ServicesSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionFEED AMERICA FIRST OF TENNESSEE — $10,000 · Food & NutritionWILSON COUNTY BUSINESS AND EDUCATION COALITION INC — $10,000 · EducationBRIGHTSTONE INC — $10,000 · EducationSHERRY'S HOPE INC — $10,000 · HealthPROJECT CAMP INC — $9,600 · HealthHARD BARGAIN MT HOPE REDEVELOPMENT INC — $19,000 · Housing & ShelterDEER RUN RETREAT CENTER — $10,000 · Religion
Other$360,343Human Services$29,855Food & Nutrition$20,000Education$20,000Health$19,600Housing & Shelter$19,000Religion$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWILLIAMSON COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD — $19,526 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetHARD BARGAIN MT HOPE REDEVELOPMENT INC — $19,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED AMERICA FIRST OF TENNESSEE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEER RUN RETREAT CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWILSON COUNTY BUSINESS AND EDUCATION COALITION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetBACKLIGHT PRODUCTIONS — $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetSHERRY'S HOPE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBRIGHTSTONE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWILSON COUNTY CHRISTMAS FOR ALL — $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetJOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES TENNESSEE — $9,855 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPROJECT CAMP INC — $9,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC — $9,490 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTENNESSEE 4-H FOUNDATION INC — $7,120 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $6,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTAKE THE REINS INC — $6,000 over 1y, 14% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN24.9× affinity11 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 · Yarbrough Family Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Middle Tennessee Electric Sharingchange 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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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    How do I get to Middle Tennessee Electric Sharingchange Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Middle Tennessee Electric Sharingchange 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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