· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BoysGirls Club Hatchie River Region | $10,500 |
| Confidential Care Mobile Ministry | $10,000 |
| Chester County 4-H | $10,000 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank | $10,000 |
| RIFA | $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 |
| Scarlet Rope Project | $8,000 |
| The Fostered Gift | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- MHMADISON HALL HEALTH CLINICone grant, 2024 · $10k
- BFBRIGHTON FIRE DEPTone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 57 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Southwest Members Care Incorporated funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Southwest Members Care Incorporated. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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