Tennessee · Community foundation
South Cumberland Community Fund
To support the many nonprofit organizations across the plateau. Makes grants for projects on the mountain and provides organizational support to these nonprofit groups, helping them develop stronger administrative structures, clearer missions, and integrated strategic plans.
- $314k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 16
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 64%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $224k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $37,980
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 64% of the organizations South Cumberland Community Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 16 | $224k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $184k | 64% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $171k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $85k | 78% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $162k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of the South | $102,980 | 2 | 0% |
| Mountain Top Inc | $65,740 | 3 | 4% |
| Town of Tracy City | $59,030 | 4 | n/a |
| Folks at Home | $54,201 | 4 | 19% |
| Housing Sewanee Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 16% |
| Sewanee Community Chest | $18,500 | 2 | 7% |
| Civic Design Center | $17,614 | 2 | 1% |
| Mosaic Recovery Center Inc | $16,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Arts Inside | $15,537 | 2 | n/a |
| Grundy Area Arts Council | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of the South | $102,980 | 2 | 0% |
| Mountain Top Inc | $65,740 | 3 | 4% |
| Town of Tracy City | $59,030 | 4 | n/a |
| Folks at Home | $54,201 | 4 | 19% |
| Housing Sewanee Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 16% |
| Sewanee Community Chest | $18,500 | 2 | 7% |
| Civic Design Center | $17,614 | 2 | 1% |
| Mosaic Recovery Center Inc | $16,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Arts Inside | $15,537 | 2 | n/a |
| Grundy Area Arts Council | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dependable Laundry | $9,674 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($432k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About South Cumberland Community Fund
- How much does South Cumberland Community Fund give?
- South Cumberland Community Fund reported 16 itemized grants totaling $223,939, out of $313,533 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does South Cumberland Community Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (18%), Education (15%), Public Benefit (13%).
- Who are South Cumberland Community Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: University of the South ($103k), Mountain Top Inc ($66k), Town of Tracy City ($59k).
- Does South Cumberland Community Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as South Cumberland Community Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is South Cumberland Community Fund based?
- South Cumberland Community Fund is based in TN.
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