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Regions Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $335k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $51,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE TENNESSEE VALLE | $40,000 |
| FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES | $35,000 |
| CHURCH HEALTH CENTER | $35,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TENNE | $25,000 |
| NASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ASPIRE CLARKSVILLE | $25,000 |
| LEADERS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| YMCA | $25,000 |
| OVERTON PARK SHELL INC | $25,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION I | $20,000 |
| ANDERSON COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| AUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $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 (FY21–24, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +81% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 37 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, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $385k 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
- FUFISK UNIVERSITY3× · 2021–2024 · $126k · revenue +13%
- TSTENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2024 · $56k · revenue +10%
- AHAFFORDABLE HOUSING RESOURCES INC2× · 2022–2024 · $21k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- TSTENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue -76%
- UWUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INCone grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue -6%
- AARTSMEMPHISgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +48%
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.
The united way of south central tennessee's mission is to improve lives by advancing opportunities for education, health, and financial stability for all. its vision is to be the primary community solutions leader for human services.
Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee
To encourage philanthropy and foster leadership among women and support programs that enable women and children to reach their full potential.
Christian fellowship for college students
Leadership tennessee fosters collaborative, non-partisan dialogue on issues of state importance, by connecting and deploying a network of diverse leaders and engaged citizens.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
Mission: to create economically diverse neighborhoods filled with financially empowered citizens and housing for all.vision: all chattanoogans can afford a safe place in a strong neighborhood to call home. belief: we believe the future of…
To enable and empower african-americans and other minorities in underserved communities to achieve their highest human potential and secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.
Our mission is to increase socioeconomic mobility by building pathways to thriving careers.
The community foundation is a philanthropic organization that manages charitable funds with a broad base of donors to benefit the areas of western tennessee, eastern arkansas, and northern mississippi. since 1969, the community foundation…
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
The foundation's purpose is to promote education within the food industry by providing scholarships, promoting continuing education, and supporting programs at educational institutions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc and the most unlike its peers is University Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 75 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds FISK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSMEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE STORE INC ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LeMoyne-Owen College ↗
- Who funds Binghampton Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds Building Memphis ↗
- Who funds CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds MY CITY RIDES ↗
- Who funds WEST TN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
- Who funds THE OVERTON PARK SHELL INC ↗
- Who funds RISE MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds Star Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MANNA CAFE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE CLARKSVILLE CO CLARKSVILLE-MONT CO ECON DEV COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LEADERS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AFFORDABLE HOUSING RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds COSECHA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds My Cup of Tea Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LANE COLLEGE ↗
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 · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · Nashville Predators Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · The Frist Foundation · Tennessee Health Foundation Inc · Simmons First 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 Regions Foundation 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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