· Public charity
Southwest Members Care Incorporated
The accumulation of funds through a utility round-up program to be disbursed for charitable purposes within the Southwest Tennessee area.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of Southwest Members Care Incorporated’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $134,914 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $222,370 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $87,456 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BoysGirls Club Hatchie River Region | $10,500 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank | $10,000 |
| Chester County 4-H | $10,000 |
| RIFA | $10,000 |
| Confidential Care Mobile Ministry | $10,000 |
| Woodland Baptist Church Brotherhood Ramp Builders | $10,000 |
| Exchange Club Carl Perkins | $9,114 |
| Beech Bluff Recreational Center | $9,000 |
| Birth Choice | $8,600 |
| The Fostered Gift | $8,000 |
| Scarlet Rope Project | $8,000 |
| Holly Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church | $7,500 |
| Henderson Community Soup Kitchen | $7,060 |
| Friends of Tipton County Library | $6,000 |
| Haywood County 4-H | $5,640 |
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 (FY21–25, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC3× · 2022–2025 · $27k · revenue +17%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE HATCHIE RIVER2× · 2023–2025 · $18k · revenue +26%
- CCCHESTER COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS CENT2× · 2022–2025 · $11k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- VHVISION HAYWOOD COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue ×21
- JCJackson-Madison County School Systemone grant, 2024 · $10k
- CCCHESTER COUNTY RESCUE SQUADone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Volunteer fire department
Interview facility for child abuse victims.
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,…
To Preserve and teach Local Hictory
Provides fire protection for all of Sevier County, Tennessee and more specifically, the Catons Chapel and Richardson Cove areas of unincorporated Sevier County, Tennessee.
To unite business and community leaders to develop and promote hendersonville, tn.
The purpose of the Buckingham County Vol. Fire Dept. is to provide fire protection to the citizens of Buckingham County and surrounding counties if needed. We also respond to automobile accidents as well as any other request for assistance.
Advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.
Public charity rescue squad
Tennessee Youth Court (TYC) is a teen-driven juvenile delinquency prevention/intervention diversion program based on restorative justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tennessee 4-H Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Casa of Tipton County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 57 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 SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
- Who funds Exchange Club - Carl Perkins Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE HATCHIE RIVER ↗
- Who funds SCARLET ROPE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN AGE SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CONFIDENTIAL CARE MOBILE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE 4-H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS CENT ↗
- Who funds VISION HAYWOOD COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MASON FIRE AUXILIARY INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TIPTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BIRTH CHOICE INC ↗
- Who funds WEST TN AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
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: Ford Philanthropy · James E Campbell Family Foundation 26-3889180 · West Tn Healthcare Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Murray Foundation Inc · United Way of West Tennesseinc Starks · Delta Dental of Tennessee Inc · Robinson Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Southwest Members Care Incorporated 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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