· Public charity
Tennessee Justice Center Inc
The tennessee justice center (tjc) advocates on behalf of low-income tennesseans in areas of public policy having the greatest impact on their health and welfare.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $232,625 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $314,101 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $81,476 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
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $157k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLACK CLERGY COLLABORATIVE | $67,667 |
| TENNESSEE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION | $42,578 |
| LATINO MEMPHIS | $38,204 |
| TENNESSEE DISABILITY COALITION | $37,259 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $27,717 |
| YMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH | $11,700 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TN | $7,500 |
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 (FY21–24, $119k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k 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
- BCBlack Clergy Collaborative Of Memphis3× · 2021–2024 · $108k · revenue +359% · 31% of their budget
- TETHE EQUITY ALLIANCE2× · 2020–2021 · $60k · revenue +92%
- TDTENNESSEE DISABILITY COALITION2× · 2021–2024 · $57k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- RIREGIONAL INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2022 · $17k
- ACAGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INCone grant, 2022 · $17k · revenue -10%
- MOMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +140%
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.
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We build the momentum of the nonprofit sector to create equitable, measurable and lasting change.
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The tennessee justice center (tjc) advocates on behalf of low-income tennesseans in areas of public policy having the greatest impact on their health and welfare.
To lead a network of partners and unite the community to eliminate hunger by feeding, nourishing, and empowering those we serve.
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Tennessee voices for children, inc. (tnv) is a statewide and national source of referral, support, and advocacy for families and the systems that serve them. our mission is to be the collaborative leader guiding mental health…
Our mission is to increase socioeconomic mobility by building pathways to thriving careers.
Tennessee educational cooperative's mission is to help all children reach their potential by partnering with parents, schools and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-South Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 12 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 Black Clergy Collaborative Of Memphis ↗
- Who funds THE EQUITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE DISABILITY COALITION ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION ↗
- Who funds LATINO MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TN ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH ↗
- Who funds AGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Tennessee Justice Center Inc 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.