· Public charity
Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tn Inc
Second harvest food bank of middle tennessee, inc.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 80 grants below total $383,845 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,480,194 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $14,096,349 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 · FY2020
- Under $10k69 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $201k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIDGE MINISTRIES THE | $64,649 |
| GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES | $30,622 |
| NASHVILLE CARES | $27,047 |
| THE STORE | $26,934 |
| FOOD TO THE RESCUE | $25,965 |
| TNKIDS NUTRITION INC | $20,850 |
| HERMITAGE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $16,031 |
| PUTNAM EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION | $15,855 |
| ONE GEN AWAY | $13,744 |
| WOODBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $12,106 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF HENDERSONVILLE | $11,944 |
| THE LITTLE PANTRY THAT COULD | $7,439 |
| COMMUNITY RURAL FOOD DELIVERY | $7,365 |
| FIRST UMCPARISH NURSING MINISTRY | $7,108 |
| SMITHVILLE CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $6,933 |
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 (FY20–20, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 Anderson County Community Action Commission provides food, clothing, household foods, and essential assistance to low-income residents of Anderson County, Tennessee. The organization operates a community food pantry, clothing closet,…
Food distribution to the needy
Providing hot meals and neccessities of life to any member of our community
To provide food, shelter, clothing, medical assistance and other immediate need to the thousands of needy and homeless people living in our area.
To provide free food to homeless, veterans, and others
Organization operates a kitchen providing daily meals and housing opportunities serving harlan county and surrounding area. food boxes and personal items are also provided on a periodic basis.
The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.
Provide meals, clothing, counseling, referrals, spiritual guidance and shelter to anyone in need without charge
Local food pantry serving those food insecurity.
To meet the basic physical, spiritual, and social need of people in our area using the ministry of Jesus as a model.
Community outreach and church services
Community Share's mission is to feed, clothe, and house people in need within the Polk County, GA and surrounding communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is The Master's Table Inc. 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 23 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
137 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.
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 GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE CARES ↗
- Who funds THE STORE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD TO THE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds TNKIDS NUTRITION ↗
- Who funds PUTNAM EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONE GENERATION AWAY ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE PANTRY THAT COULD ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RURAL FOOD DELIVERY ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES FOOD BANK OF ROBERTSON CO INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN OF MANCHESTER TN INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds GALLATIN CARES ↗
- Who funds MANNA CAFE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Helping Hands of Putnam County ↗
- Who funds CLARKSVILLE AREA URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GODS STOREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CENTRAL FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE WELL OUTREACH INC ↗
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: United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Nashville Predators Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Boulevard Bolt Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Carolyn Smith Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · McCauley-Lindsay Charities of Tenn
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 Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tn 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.
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.