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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.

$439k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$490kPhilanthropy$375kArts & Culture$286kHuman Services$173kCommunity Improvement$147kHealth$135kFood & Nutrition$110kYouth Development$82kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $335k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
LEADERS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$25,000
NASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION$25,000
YMCA$25,000
ASPIRE CLARKSVILLE$25,000
OVERTON PARK SHELL INC$25,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION I$20,000
AUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$15,000
COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$15,000
ANDERSON COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC$15,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$10,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $30k → 12%CONEXION AMERICAS: $1k → 14%HEAVEN SOUTH INC: $50k → 14%RISE FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%MY CUP OF TEA INC: $20k → 17%HOPE STATION: $1k → 14%URBAN LEAGUE OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MA
CA
KY
TN
DC
AL
TX
FL
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.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$289k · 5 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
30

Total granted

$289k
$965k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+8%

Still filing today

60%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $385k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • FU
    FISK UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2024 · $126k · revenue +18%
  • TS
    TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2024 · $56k · revenue +10%
  • AH
    AFFORDABLE HOUSING RESOURCES INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $21k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • TS
    TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue -76%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue -6%
  • MT
    MEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue +61%
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
United Way of South Central Tennessee

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.

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2
Mayor's Institute for Excellence in Government Inc

Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee

Public Benefit
3
Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis

To encourage philanthropy and foster leadership among women and support programs that enable women and children to reach their full potential.

Human Services
4
Middle Tennessee Christian Foundation

Christian fellowship for college students

Religion
5
Leadership Tennessee Inc

Leadership tennessee fosters collaborative, non-partisan dialogue on issues of state importance, by connecting and deploying a network of diverse leaders and engaged citizens.

Public Benefit
6
Union University

Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education
7
Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise

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…

Housing & Shelter
8
Memphis Urban League Inc

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.

Human Services
9
The Collective Blueprint

Our mission is to increase socioeconomic mobility by building pathways to thriving careers.

Employment
10
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc

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…

Philanthropy
11
Nashville Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Tennessee Grocers Education Foundation

The foundation's purpose is to promote education within the food industry by providing scholarships, promoting continuing education, and supporting programs at educational institutions.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 75 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/60
Grantees still filing
37/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FISK UNIVERSITY: $126,000 · EducationFISK UNIVERSITYMEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC: $60,000 · EducationMEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY …TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $56,000 · EducationTENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY…LeMoyne-Owen College: $45,000 · EducationLeMoyne-Owen CollegeUNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA …MANNA CAFE MINISTRIES: $25,000 · EducationMANNA CAFE MINISTRIESLEADERS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationLEADERS EDUCATION FOUNDATI…THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Education+6 more: $62,000 · Education+6 moreTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $250,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATI…UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $70,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE T…NASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyNASHVILLE PREDATORS FO…ANDERSON COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS: $15,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureTENNESSEE STATE …ARTSMEMPHIS: $60,000 · Arts & CultureARTSMEMPHISFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY &…THE OVERTON PARK SHELL INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE OVERTON PARK…ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureANDREW JACKSON F…WO SMITH NASHVILLE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $55,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONYWCA OF NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENN: $50,000 · OtherYWCA OF NASHVILLE & MIDD…LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE AN: $31,000 · OtherLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MID…YMCA: $25,000 · OtherYMCABOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $25,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAROCKETTOWN: $15,000 · OtherStar Center Inc: $25,000 · OtherStar Center IncMY CITY RIDES: $25,000 · OtherMY CITY RIDESBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL: $40,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TH…AFFORDABLE HOUSING RESOURCES INC: $21,000 · OtherJUDY'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $25,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK…+18 more: $71,500 · Other+18 moreBinghampton Development Corporation: $40,000 · Community ImprovementBuilding Memphis: $30,000 · Community ImprovementASPIRE CLARKSVILLE CO CLARKSVILLE-MONT CO ECON DEV COUNCIL: $25,000 · Community ImprovementCOSECHA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $20,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND AND BRADLEY COUNTY: $15,000 · Community ImprovementLAUNCH INC: $15,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $2,000 · Community ImprovementTHE STORE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $30,000 · Human ServicesRISE MEMPHIS INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesMy Cup of Tea Inc: $20,000 · Human Services+3 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · HealthCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $35,000 · HealthWEST TN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Health
Education$459,000Philanthropy$376,000Arts & Culture$285,000Other$423,500Community Improvement$147,000Human Services$128,000Health$110,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFISK UNIVERSITY: $126,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $70,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC: $60,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetARTSMEMPHIS: $60,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $56,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STORE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetLeMoyne-Owen College: $45,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBinghampton Development Corporation: $40,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBuilding Memphis: $30,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTHE OVERTON PARK SHELL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWEST TN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetASPIRE CLARKSVILLE CO CLARKSVILLE-MONT CO ECON DEV COUNCIL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetStar Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRISE MEMPHIS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANNA CAFE MINISTRIES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMY CITY RIDES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLEADERS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAFFORDABLE HOUSING RESOURCES INC: $21,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMy Cup of Tea Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCOSECHA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $20,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND AND BRADLEY COUNTY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJUDY'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetLAUNCH INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetANDERSON COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetAUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLANE COLLEGE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES OF CLARKSVILLE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWO SMITH NASHVILLE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ROCHELLE CENTER: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIST ART MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOUSING FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOPE STATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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 Foundat…Community Foundation …Memorial Foundation I…Nashville Predators F…United Way of Middle …Hca Healthcare Founda…Ryman Hospitality Pro…The Kemmons Wilson Fa…The Healing Trust For…The Frist FoundationTennessee Health Foun…Simmons First Foundat…
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN35.8× affinity21 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 · 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

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 Regions Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Regions Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%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
    1get no government money at all
    23report 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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    How do I get to Regions Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Regions Foundation 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 75 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $368k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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