· Public charity
Mission Possible
To raise support and awareness of the homeless population in middle tennessee and beyond.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION | $120,000 |
| WEST CARTER COUNTY VOL FIRE DEPT | $15,000 |
| RISE ERWIN | $15,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MID TN | $15,000 |
| OPEN TABLE OF NASHVILLE INC | $10,000 |
| THE ALOE FAMILY INC | $10,000 |
| WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER | $10,000 |
| NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER | $10,000 |
| PROJECT RETURN INC | $10,000 |
| MONROE HARDING | $10,000 |
| SHOWER UP | $10,000 |
| THE VILLAGE AT GLENCLIFF | $10,000 |
| JOURNEY HOME INC | $10,000 |
| THE LAUNDRY STOP INC | $10,000 |
| MUSICALLY FED | $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 (FY22–24, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% 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 +31% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 10 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; $122k 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
- PLPEOPLE LOVING NASHVILLE2× · 2022–2023 · $32k · revenue +78%
- CHCOMMUNITY HOMELESS OUTREACH AND SUPPORT INC2× · 2022–2023 · $30k · revenue +31%
- SUShower Up3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- OCOASIS CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue 0%
- PCPARK CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -45%
- UWUNITED WAY OF HUMPHREYS COUNTYone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -18%
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.
Provide needy families and individuals with rent and utilities assistance in order to prevent their eviction or termination of utility services. also provide food and other assistance to needy families and individuals.
Calvary rescue mission is a haven for the homeless in memphis. for all time, it has been to reach out and minister to the needs of each person regardless of race, color, or creed. we furnish a clean shower, clothing, bed, along with the…
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…
New Covenant Safe Haven is a Christian-based organization committed to uplifting and supporting individuals and families living in poverty within our community. Our primary mission is to provide essential services such as temporary shelter…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Reach out to the homeless, hungry, hurting and hopeless throughout north alabama and southern tennessee with the good news of the gospel of jesus christ.
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 raise support and awareness of the homeless population in middle tennessee and beyond.
To provide a shelter and a place of hope where people can recover from homelessness, pain and addiction, restoring their dignity and improving their lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Shower Up. 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 15 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) — 5% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 25 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 NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE LOVING NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOMELESS OUTREACH AND SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN TABLE OF NASHVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds Shower Up ↗
- Who funds OASIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE AT GLENCLIFF ↗
- Who funds WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE LAUNDRY STOP INC ↗
- Who funds West Carter County Volunteer Fire Department ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
- Who funds Aloe Family Inc ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds PARK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT RETURN INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICALLY FED ↗
- Who funds MONROE HARDING INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF HUMPHREYS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON NASHVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BBQ RELIEF ↗
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 · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Carolyn Smith Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Thomas & Mamie Houser Charitable Foundation · Boulevard Bolt Inc · Joe C Davis Foundation · Vanderbilt University
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 Mission Possible 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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