How much did TENNESSEE TITANS FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 87% of TENNESSEE TITANS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

christianbrothers

2021

quarterbackriddellallgray lineredhickmanniketullahoma

2022

metropolitan governmentgovernment nashvillenashville davidsonlevy restaurantscornersportsboard education

2023

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2025

creativecentennialwestmorelandleaderscolliervilleliberty creekpark

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 130 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k106 grants · $266k
$10k–50k23 grants · $346k
$250k+1 grant · $1.5M

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$3.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

METRO NASHVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS$1,501,500
TSSAA$40,000
METROPOLITAN NASHVILLE BOARD OF PARKS AND RECREATION$35,000
VANDERBILT CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$15,516
TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND$15,516
CAMP DISCOVERY$15,516
SAINT THOMAS HEALTH FOUNDATION$15,516
FISK UNIV SCHOLARSHIP FUND$15,516
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN RESEARCH HOSPITAL$15,516
THE JASON FOUNDATION INC$15,516
TENNESSEE ALLIANCE OF BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC$15,516
MIDDLE TENNESSEE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$15,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$15,000
2ND AND 7 FOUNDATION$14,696
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$10,861

02The need

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 (FY20–25, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.0M · 56 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +105% since the first grant, against +67% for the ones you funded once.

56 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 88 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

149

Total granted

$2.0M

$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+105%

+67%

Still filing today

29%

22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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

TJ
The Jason Foundation Inc
5× · 2020–2025 · $42k · revenue +120%
TS
Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame
2× · 2020–2021 · $40k · revenue +588%
NZ
Nashville Zoo
3× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +23%

Funded once

UW
United Way of Metropolitan Nashville
one grant, 2020 · $100k
TS
TENNESSEE SECONDARY SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2022 · $80k
UW
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +35%

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.

Young Men's Christian Association

To put christian principles into practice through programs and activities that develop the spirit, mind and body of youth, adults and families in knoxville, tn and surrounding communities.

Human Services

Tennessee Titans Foundation

Philanthropy

Showcase Baseball of Tn

Showcase baseball of tn is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing an environment that is conducive to positive athletic, academic and social development of young men and women. we are committed to helping our young athletes make…

Recreation & Sports

Tennessee Secondary School Athletic

To develop sportsmanship, character and integrity through athletic competition

Recreation & Sports

Nashville Coaching Coalition

To train, connect, and support athletic coaches in their work to build excellent programs that transform the lives of their players and enable them to perform to their greatest physical potential.

Education

Kings Academy Nashville

King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.

Education

Athens-Mcminn Family Young Men's

To put christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.

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Boys & Girls Clubs of South Central Tenn

The organization provides after school and summer programs for boys and girls of maury county, tennessee. the organization's mission is to enable all young people reach their full potential.

Youth Development

Tn Afl-Cio Labor Council

Labor organization

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Nashville Technology Council

Leading voice & advocate for middle tn's information technology ecosystem & tech professionals.

Community Improvement

Tennesseans for Quality Early

To advance state policies and practices that ensure all tennessee children from birth through 3rd grade get the high quality early education they need to power our state's future.

Education

Memphis Tomorrow

Memphis tomorrow is an association of ceos of memphis' largest businesses working to promote opportunity and quality of life for all memphians through collective action and public-private partnerships.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emerald Youth Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Saint Thomas Health. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 23. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/88

the rest of the field

12%

2,229/18,986

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.

05the grantee network

79 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

77/79

Grantees still filing

63/79

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$4,492,537Philanthropy$150,000Human Services$138,944Education$91,256Youth Development$86,788Arts & Culture$80,500Health$35,443

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.

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 Foundation of MiddleTN49.4× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist · The Frist Foundation · Vanderbilt University · Nashville Predators Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Carolyn Smith Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · East Tennessee 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 organisation TENNESSEE TITANS FOUNDATION 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~9 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 237036422 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 16% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Tennessee Titans Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Tennessee Titans Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

TENNESSEE TITANS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

79 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Tennessee Titans Foundation?

More from the funding graph

TENNESSEE TITANS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

79 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Tennessee Titans Foundation?

More from the funding graph