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Phoenix Benefit Inc

To benefit underserved youth in Middle Tennessee and develop members into leaders in their community and in business.

$77k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Itemized grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2023
44%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2025
$74k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$10,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 9
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$540k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Phoenix Benefit Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$74k67%
FY20239$185k44%
FY20227$87k43%
FY20218$117k63%
FY20208$103k63%
FY20197$83k57%
FY20188$108kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Youth Development$248kEducation$230kHuman Services$75kInternational$66kReligion$26kCrime & Legal$23kHousing & Shelter$20kHealth$18kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Phoenix Benefit Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTeach for America Inc: $95,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBoy Scouts of America 560 Middle Tennessee: $77,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJunior Achievement of Middle Tn: $65,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetBeWell in School: $65,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTransformation Life Center: $46,750 over 1y, 14% of budgetRock the Street Wall Street: $37,500 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetBig Brothersbig Sisters of Middle Tn: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWest Nashville Dream Center: $22,755 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTurnip Green Creative Reuse: $22,020 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSmall World Yoga Inc: $21,600 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetThe Educators' Cooperative: $20,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetSaddle Up: $17,690 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAloe Family Inc: $15,980 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetBook Em: $15,005 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEqual Chance for Education: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNashville Coaching Coalition: $14,600 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCorner To Corner: $13,600 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSt Luke's Community House Inc: $13,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNashville Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition: $12,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPathways Kitchen: $12,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHispanic Family Foundation Inc: $12,395 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tn Inc: $10,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Villages Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCasa Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetStars Nashville: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBarefoot Republic Inc: $7,750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Porch Writers Collective Inc: $5,820 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee: $5,756 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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 Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN46.1× affinity24 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 · The Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Joe C Davis Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dettwiller Foundation · Tennessee Titans Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Carolyn Smith Foundation · The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc

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.

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About Phoenix Benefit Inc

How much does Phoenix Benefit Inc give?
Phoenix Benefit Inc reported 6 itemized grants totaling $73,500, out of $76,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Phoenix Benefit Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (33%), Education (30%), Human Services (10%).
Who are Phoenix Benefit Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Teach for America Inc ($95k), Boy Scouts of America 560 Middle Tennessee ($78k), Junior Achievement of Middle Tn ($66k).
Does Phoenix Benefit Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Phoenix Benefit Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Hca Healthcare Foundation, The Frist Foundation.
Where is Phoenix Benefit Inc based?
Phoenix Benefit Inc is based in TN.

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 33 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 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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