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Tennessee Farmers Cooperative Foundation Inc

The mission of the tfc foundation is to foster future generations of agricultural leaders, serve local communities, and support faith-based initiatives.

$346k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$159k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $249,970, the rows itemized in this filing. The $345,586 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $95,616 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $226k
$67,370
Median grant
1
States reached
$206k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TENNESSEE 4-H FOUNDATION INC$158,600
TENNESSEE FFA FOUNDATION INC$67,370
THE FARM AND FOREST FAMILIES OF TENNESSEE INC$15,000
WAVERLY CENTRAL FFA (CHAPTER OF TENNESSEE FFA)$9,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%WAVERLY CENTRAL FFA (CHAPTER OF TENNESSEE FFA): $9k → 13%TENNESSEE FFA FOUNDATION INC: $67k → 19%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
03the grantee network

3 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
2/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TENNESSEE 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $158,600 · OtherTENNESSEE 4-H FOUNDATION INCTENNESSEE FFA FOUNDATION: $76,370 · EducationTENNESSEE FFA FOUNDATIONTHE FARM AND FOREST FAMILIES OF TENNESSEE INC: $15,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$158,600Education$76,370Food & Nutrition$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTENNESSEE FFA FOUNDATION: $76,370 over 1y, 4.5% 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.

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 3 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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