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Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tn Inc

Second harvest food bank of middle tennessee, inc.

$14M
Granted FY2020
80
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2020 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 80 grants below total $383,845, the rows itemized in this filing. The $14,480,194 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $14,096,349 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k69 grants · $118k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $201k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$1,232
Median grant
1
States reached
$88M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
02

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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%GRACEWORKS WEST: $1k → 4%THE FAMILY CENTER: $1k → 10%GOD'S STOREHOUSELAWRENCEBURG: $2k → 14%HELPING HANDS OF WARREN COUNTY: $236 → 15%COMMUNITY HELP CTR TROUSDALE: $756 → 17%GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES: $31k → 4%ARK COMMUNITY RESOURCE & ASSISTANCE CENTER: $937 → 9%UNITED MINISTRIES: $7k → 9%HELPING HANDS OF HICKMAN COUNTY: $46 → 15%COMMUNITY CARE MINISTRIES THE ATTIC: $2k → 17%HOPE MINISTRIES: $860 → 17%GALLATIN CARES: $5k → 8%THE STORE: $27k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES LOAVES & FISHES: $617 → 14%SAMARITAN SOUP KITCHEN: $642 → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $5k → 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.
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 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
Anderson County Community Action Inc

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,…

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2
Hickory County Cares

Food distribution to the needy

Human Services
3
Grace Resource Center Inc

To provide food, shelter, clothing, medical assistance and other immediate need to the thousands of needy and homeless people living in our area.

Housing & Shelter
4
God Provides Ministry

To provide free food to homeless, veterans, and others

Food & Nutrition
5
Christs Hands Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
6
Dale County Rescue Mission

The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.

Human Services
7
3G Food Pantry

Local food pantry serving those food insecurity.

Food & Nutrition
8
Christian Care

Provide meals, clothing, counseling, referrals, spiritual guidance and shelter to anyone in need without charge

Housing & Shelter
9
The Samaritan Center Inc

To meet the basic physical, spiritual, and social need of people in our area using the ministry of Jesus as a model.

Religion
10
Loaves & Fishes the Church Without Walls

Community outreach and church services

Religion
11
Hope House of Cocke County

Food pantry

Human Services
12
Community Share Ministry Co

Community Share's mission is to feed, clothe, and house people in need within the Polk County, GA and surrounding communities.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission; 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.
03the grantee network

137 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.

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)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
129/137
Grantees still filing
79/137
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BRIDGE MINISTRY INC: $64,649 · OtherTHE BRIDGE MINISTRY INCHERMITAGE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $16,031 · OtherHERMITAGE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHWOODBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $12,106 · OtherWOODBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCHFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF HENDERSONVILLE: $11,944 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF HENDERSONVILLETHE LITTLE PANTRY THAT COULD: $7,439 · OtherFIRST UMCPARISH NURSING MINISTRY: $7,108 · OtherSMITHVILLE CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $6,933 · OtherGOOD SAMARITAN OF MANCHESTER TN INC: $6,136 · Other+44 more: $43,950 · Other+44 moreGRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC: $31,689 · Human ServicesGRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INCTHE STORE INC: $26,934 · Human ServicesTHE STORE INCUNITED MINISTRIES FOOD BANK OF ROBERTSON CO INC: $6,629 · Human ServicesUNITED MINISTRIES FOOD BA…SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $5,376 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZENS INCGALLATIN CARES: $5,227 · Human ServicesGALLATIN CARES+11 more: $11,270 · Human Services+11 moreTNKIDS NUTRITION: $20,850 · EducationTNKIDS NUTR…PUTNAM EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION: $15,855 · EducationPUTNAM EDUC…MANNA CAFE MINISTRIES: $3,676 · EducationMANNA CAFE …FOOD TO THE RESCUE: $25,965 · Food & NutritionFOOD TO TH…COMMUNITY RURAL FOOD DELIVERY: $7,365 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY …THE WELL OUTREACH INC: $1,454 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $773 · Food & NutritionNASHVILLE CARES: $27,047 · Health+1 more: $730 · HealthONE GENERATION AWAY: $13,744 · Civil RightsNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $2,965 · Housing & Shelter
Other$176,296Human Services$87,125Education$40,381Food & Nutrition$35,557Health$27,777Civil Rights$13,744Housing & Shelter$2,965

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC: $31,689 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNASHVILLE CARES: $27,047 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STORE INC: $26,934 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFOOD TO THE RESCUE: $25,965 over 1y, 22% of budgetTNKIDS NUTRITION: $20,850 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetPUTNAM EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION: $15,855 over 3y, 14% of budgetONE GENERATION AWAY: $13,744 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LITTLE PANTRY THAT COULD: $7,439 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetUNITED MINISTRIES FOOD BANK OF ROBERTSON CO INC: $6,629 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $5,376 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMANNA CAFE MINISTRIES: $3,676 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $2,965 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHelping Hands of Putnam County: $2,925 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE MINISTRIES INC: $1,907 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetGODS STOREHOUSE INC: $1,610 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTH CENTRAL FAMILY CENTER INC: $1,496 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WELL OUTREACH INC: $1,454 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetLifesong Ministries: $948 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE Ministries Inc: $860 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetTHE MILAN MUSTARD SEED INC: $855 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMacon Helps: $773 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Help Center of Trousdale: $756 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetCEDARCROFT HOME INC: $730 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN MINISTRIES OF TEMPLE BAPTIST CHURCH INC: $642 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC: $617 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE ONE ANOTHER EMBASSY INC: $251 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHelping Hands Ministry: $236 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBIG SANDY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $105 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHELPING HAND OF HUMBOLDT INC: $82 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HELP CENTER: $67 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRANCH OF NASHVILLE INC: $66 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HANDS OF HICKMAN COUNTY INC: $46 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLUKE 14-12: $43 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S STOREHOUSE OF GILES COUNTY: $21 over 7y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

United Way of Middle …The Community Foundat…Hca Healthcare Founda…The Frist FoundationMemorial Foundation I…Nashville Predators F…The Healing Trust For…Boulevard Bolt IncDorothy Cate and Thom…Carolyn Smith Foundat…Joe C Davis FoundationMcCauley-Lindsay Char…
United Way of Middle Tennessee IncTN71× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tn Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tn Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 79 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 2020, released 2020. 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 $73M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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