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Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition

Tirrc is a statewide, immigrant and refugee-led collaboration.

$650k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$205k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Civil Rights$1.8MHuman Services$885kPhilanthropy$160kEducation$80kArts & Culture$54kCrime & Legal$34kYouth Development$25kReligion$23kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$289k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $622,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $649,524 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $27,324 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $242k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $380k
$30,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$9.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIRRC VOTES$205,200
BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$100,000
CIVIC TN$75,000
TIDES CENTER I BELONG FUND$40,000
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS$35,000
HCA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$35,000
NATIONAL DOMESTIC WORKERS ALLIANCE$30,000
DR BRONNER'S FAMILY FOUNDATION$25,000
NISSAN FOUNDATION$25,000
PRESBYTERIAN HUNGER FUND$17,000
UNITED WE DREAM$15,000
DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION$10,000
CCCFIRM$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $875k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TIDES CENTER I BELONG FUND: $140k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $23k → 12%LA PAZ DE DIOS INC: $23k → 12%SOUTHEAST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NETWORK: $92k → 13%NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $35k → 14%TIDES CENTER I BELONG FUND: $40k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $12k → 12%LA PAZ DE DIOS INC: $10k → 12%LATINO MEMPHIS: $13k → 17%NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $30k → 14%CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $10k → 12%LA PAZ DE DIOS INC: $10k → 12%LATINO MEMPHIS: $8k → 17%CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $10k → 12%LA PAZ DE DIOS INC: $8k → 12%API MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $50k → 14%JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS: $158k → 14%JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS: $35k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $35k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $22k → 14%JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS: $22k → 14%JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS: $15k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $15k → 14%ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY ASSOC NASHVILLE: $20k → 14%ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY ASSOC NASHVILLE: $13k → 14%ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY ASSOC NASHVILLE: $13k → 14%ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY ASSOC NASHVILLE: $10k → 14%ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY ASSOC NASHVILLE: $6k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
CA
KY
TN
NC
DC
GA
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 20 repeat orgs$630k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
18

Total granted

$2.5M
$430k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+90%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCivil RightsArts & CulturePhilanthropyReligionEducationOther

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

  • TV
    TIRRC VOTES
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +345% · 47% of their budget
  • TJ
    TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS
    4× · 2018–2022 · $230k · revenue +401%
  • TE
    THE EQUITY ALLIANCE
    4× · 2018–2021 · $225k · revenue +665%

Funded once

  • FI
    Florida Immigrant Coalition Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -11%
  • SI
    SOUTHEAST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $92k · revenue +64% · 45% of their budget
  • AM
    API MIDDLE TENNESSEEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +36% · 57% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition

Tirrc is a statewide, immigrant and refugee-led collaboration. our mission is to build power, amplify our voices, and organize communities to advocate for our rights. our vision is a stronger, more inclusive tennessee where people of all…

Civil Rights
2
Latino Political Network
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3
Asian American Advocacy Alliance
Community Improvement
4
Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence

Assist domestic violence and sexual assault programs, law enforcement, courts, community organizations and the general public: training and technical assistance.

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5
Texas Immigration Law Council

It is the mission of the Texas Immigration Law Council to protect and promote the basic rights of immigrants and refugees of all nationalities within Texas.

Civil Rights
6
National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications Foundation
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7
Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights

VACIR is a multi-racial and multi-ethnic coalition of organizations that exists to win dignity, power and quality of life for all immigrant and refugee communities.

Human Services
8
Never Again Action

To educate the general public and public officials about the united states immigration policy and the need to prevent anything like the holocaust from ever happening again, training and leadership development of immigrant leaders and…

—
9
Tennessee Workers Alliance

The tennessee worker's alliance is establised primarily to further the common good and social welfare of the working citizens of the united states of america by engaging in research, education and communication efforts regarding policy…

Employment
10
Black Alliance for Just Immigration

The organization provides public education on the issues related to fair and just immigration policies.

Arts & Culture
11
Global Voice
—
12
Carolina Migrant Network Inc
Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center and the most unlike its peers is Nissan Foundation. 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 15 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%3%<5yr14%18%5–10yr17%33%10–20yr13%36%20–35yr11%3%35–55yr24%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr14%54%5–10yr17%20%10–20yr13%22%20–35yr11%3%35–55yr24%1%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
7%
3/42
the rest of the field
13%
4,625/36,358

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.

04the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
23/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TIRRC VOTES — $1,272,200 · Civil RightsTIRRC VOTESTHE EQUITY ALLIANCE — $225,000 · Civil RightsTHE EQUITY ALLIANCEFlorida Immigrant Coalition Inc — $100,000 · Civil RightsFlorida Immigrant Coalition IncCIVIC TN — $75,000 · Civil RightsNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $60,000 · Civil Rights+3 more — $46,300 · Civil RightsTENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS — $229,636 · Human ServicesTENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIG…TIDES CENTER — $180,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERSOUTHEAST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NETWORK INC — $91,900 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NET…CONEXION AMERICAS — $72,000 · Human ServicesCONEXION AMERICASNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS — $65,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW A…ETHIOPIAN COMM ASSOCIATION OF NASHVILLE — $61,000 · Human ServicesETHIOPIAN COMM ASSOCIATION OF …CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE — $54,500 · Human ServicesCENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESS…LA PAZ DE DIOS INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesLA PAZ DE DIOS INCAPI MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $50,000 · Human ServicesAPI MIDDLE TENNESSEE+2 more — $30,500 · Human ServicesSILOAM HEALTH — $84,182 · OtherSILOAM HEAL…NISSAN FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherNISSAN FOUN…PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA A CORP — $34,000 · OtherPRESBYTERIA…SOLIDARITY DEVELOPMENT LIGHT ASSOCIATION — $33,000 · OtherSOLIDARITY …AFRICAN WOMEN EMPOWERMT COMM KNOX — $28,000 · OtherAFRICAN WOM…PROGRESSIVE PARTNERS ALLIANCE — $16,000 · OtherMURFREESBORO MUSLIM YOUTH INC — $24,500 · OtherMURFREESBOR…AMERICAN MUSLIM ADVISORY COUNC — $15,000 · Other+7 more — $62,218 · Other+7 moreThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc — $100,000 · PhilanthropyDr Bronners Family Foundation — $50,000 · PhilanthropyIMF COMMUNITY FUND INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyHCA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $60,000 · EducationDOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EducationCHATTERBIRD — $30,000 · Arts & CultureETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION IN MEMPHIS ECAM — $15,000 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT — $8,500 · Arts & CultureTENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC — $34,000 · Crime & Legal
Civil Rights$1,778,500Human Services$884,536Other$346,900Philanthropy$160,000Education$80,000Arts & Culture$53,500Crime & Legal$34,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTIRRC VOTES — $1,272,200 over 7y, 47% of budgetTENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS — $229,636 over 4y, 16% of budgetTHE EQUITY ALLIANCE — $225,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $180,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFlorida Immigrant Coalition Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHEAST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NETWORK INC — $91,900 over 1y, 45% of budgetSILOAM HEALTH — $84,182 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCIVIC TN — $75,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCONEXION AMERICAS — $72,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS — $65,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetETHIOPIAN COMM ASSOCIATION OF NASHVILLE — $61,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetHCA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE — $54,500 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetNISSAN FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetLA PAZ DE DIOS INC — $50,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetDr Bronners Family Foundation — $50,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetAPI MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $50,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetTENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC — $34,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMURFREESBORO MUSLIM YOUTH INC — $24,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetLATINO MEMPHIS INC — $20,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetORGANIZE ACTION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN MUSLIM ADVISORY COUNC — $15,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER — $11,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLA LAKEWAY — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetIMF COMMUNITY FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetNASHVILLE ORGANIZED FOR ACTION AND HOPE — $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetNASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT — $8,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHATTANOOGANS IN ACTION FOR LOVE EQUALITY AND BENEVOLENCE — $8,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…The Healing Trust For…United Way of Middle …The Dan and Margaret …National Immigration …Joe C Davis FoundationVanderbilt UniversityUnidosusNEO Philanthropy IncCivic TnSouthern Coalition fo…The Education Trust I…
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN24.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc · National Immigration Law Center · Joe C Davis Foundation · Vanderbilt University · Unidosus · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Civic Tn · Southern Coalition for Social Justice · The Education Trust Inc

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 Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your 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
    8report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition?

    Find your warmest path to Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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