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Tennessee Titans Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
132
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$2.5MPhilanthropy$1.3MHealth$529kRecreation & Sports$423kYouth Development$336kHuman Services$139kArts & Culture$130kCommunity Improvement$86kOther$0
02FY2025 · 132 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k108 grants · $272k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $346k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
$2,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METRO NASHVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS$1,501,500
TSSAA$40,000
METROPOLITAN NASHVILLE BOARD OF PARKS AND RECREATION$35,000
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN RESEARCH HOSPITAL$15,516
TENNESSEE ALLIANCE OF BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC$15,516
THE JASON FOUNDATION INC$15,516
TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND$15,516
FISK UNIV SCHOLARSHIP FUND$15,516
VANDERBILT CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$15,516
SAINT THOMAS HEALTH FOUNDATION$15,516
Individual grant recipient$15,516
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$15,000
MIDDLE TENNESSEE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$15,000
2ND AND 7 FOUNDATION$14,696
GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF CUMBERLAND VALLEY$10,861
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $153k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YMCA OF DYER COUNTY: $3k → 17%HELPING HANDS OF HICKMAN COUNTY: $263 → 15%The Jason Foundation Inc: $7k → 17%THE JASON FOUNDATION INC: $18k → 8%EQUALLY CREATED: $1k → 14%THE JASON FOUNDATION INC: $16k → 8%THE JASON FOUNDATION INC: $9k → 8%THE JASON FOUNDATION INC: $6k → 8%THE JASON FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 8%HISPANIC ORGANIZATION OF LEADERS AND ACHIEVERS: $5k → 4%YOUTH VILLAGES: $30k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $10k → 14%Conexion Americas: $6k → 14%HISPANIC FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%CORNER TO CORNER: $5k → 14%CORNER TO CORNER: $3k → 14%EDGEHILL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP: $3k → 14%STRONGER THAN MY FATHER: $263 → 14%NORTHWEST FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 14%TENTHIRTYFIVE: $500 → 14%ALOE FAMILY INC: $7k → 14%SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $4k → 14%Senior Citizens Inc: $4k → 14%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $1k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
OH
CA
KY
VA
MD
TN
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 77 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

77 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 72 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
180

Total granted

$3.0M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+6%

Still filing today

39%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $261k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ST
    SAINT THOMAS HEALTH FOUNDATIONS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $66k · revenue +80%
  • TS
    TENNESSEE SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +588%
  • TJ
    THE JASON FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • PD
    PROJECT DESTINED INC
    one grant, 2024 · $125k · revenue 0%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -6%
  • TS
    Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association
    one grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue +11%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation

The nashville chamber public benefit foundation supports the work of the nashville area chamber of commerce through efforts to improve the quality of education, encourage public and private efforts around education, and to facilitate the…

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2
Nashville Technology Council

Ntc mission is to advance the diverse technology ecosystem by connecting and promoting members, attracting, growing and retaining tech talent, and providing opportunities to reinvest in the greater nashville community.

Community Improvement
3
Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce

The nashville area chamber of commerce facilitates community leadership to create economic prosperity.

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4
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
Tennessee State Collaborative On Reforming Education

The mission of the state collaborative on reforming education (score) is to catalyze transformative change in tennessee education so that all students can achieve success. score is an independent, nonprofit, and nonpartisan institution,…

Education
7
Intrepid College Preparatory School

Intrepid college prep is committed to ensuring our scholars, educators, and families have the opportunity to unlock an unlimited future. by providing rigorous academic instruction and creating powerful relationships amongst our community's…

Education
8
Girls Write Nashville

Girls write nashville empowers expression through songwriting, production, mentorship and creative community for teen artists. we are an artist and educator-led 501(c)(3) creative youth development program in nashville, tn allied with…

Arts & Culture
9
The Collective Blueprint

Our mission is to increase socioeconomic mobility by building pathways to thriving careers.

Employment
10
Lead Public Schools Inc

Lead public schools exists to prepare all our students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in college and in life.

Education
11
Communities in Schools of Tennessee

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
12
Junior Achievement of East Tenninc

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equally Created; the most unlike its peers is Coyote Quarterback Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 113 of the 330 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/113
Grantees still filing
61/113
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METROPOLITAN NASHVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $1,516,060 · OtherMETROPOLITAN NASHVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS+150 more: $1,858,946 · Other+150 moreTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $1,067,500 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION O…UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNE…UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC: $75,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN KEN…+6 more: $75,000 · Philanthropy+6 morePROJECT DESTINED INC: $125,000 · EducationTENNESSEE SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC: $60,000 · EducationPENCIL FOUNDATION: $22,500 · EducationTennessee Educators of Color Alliance N: $10,000 · EducationMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationNASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Education+6 more: $27,006 · EducationST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $59,790 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $45,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $45,000 · HealthSADDLE UP: $15,000 · HealthThe Heimerdinger Foundation Inc: $12,500 · HealthTHE JASON FOUNDATION INC: $59,790 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273): $26,000 · Human ServicesCONEXION AMERICAS: $16,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE: $13,000 · Human ServicesCorner To Corner: $7,500 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesAloe Family Inc: $6,500 · Human Services+2 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesTennessee Secondary School Athletic Association: $80,000 · Recreation & SportsKABOOM INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsBACKFIELD IN MOTION: $18,238 · Recreation & SportsTHE 2ND AND 7 FOUNDATION: $14,696 · Recreation & SportsDOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $3,000 · Recreation & SportsBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $56,853 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN: $34,000 · Youth Development100 BLACK MEN OF MIDDLE TN INC: $27,506 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF THE SOUTH: $8,970 · Youth DevelopmentOOLTEWAH YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $7,500 · Youth Development+2 more: $6,587 · Youth Development
Other$3,375,006Philanthropy$1,317,500Education$264,506Health$177,290Human Services$175,790Recreation & Sports$145,934Youth Development$141,416

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $1,067,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT DESTINED INC: $125,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTennessee Secondary School Athletic Association: $80,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC: $75,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSAINT THOMAS HEALTH FOUNDATIONS: $65,848 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTENNESSEE SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC: $60,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetTHE JASON FOUNDATION INC: $59,790 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $59,790 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $56,853 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE BALLET: $45,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN: $34,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273): $26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetKABOOM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPENCIL FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCIVIC DESIGN CENTER: $21,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIMF COMMUNITY FUND INC: $20,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetBACKFIELD IN MOTION: $18,238 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS TENNESSEE INC: $17,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCONEXION AMERICAS: $16,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NASHVILLE ENTREPRENEUR CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSADDLE UP: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetYWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE 2ND AND 7 FOUNDATION: $14,696 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHOPE HOUSE: $13,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetNASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Heimerdinger Foundation Inc: $12,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPATHWAYS KITCHEN: $10,113 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPURPOSE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE GIRLS ROCK: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE URBAN LAND INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTennessee Educators of Color Alliance N: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCHI BOULE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF THE SOUTH: $8,970 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCorner To Corner: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOOLTEWAH YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $7,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetDISMAS INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP NASHVILLE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT DESTINED INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
  • Who funds Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT THOMAS HEALTH FOUNDATIONS ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JASON FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE BALLET ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
  • Who funds 100 BLACK MEN OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS ↗
  • Who funds KABOOM 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.

Memorial Foundation I…The Community Foundat…The Frist FoundationHca Healthcare Founda…United Way of Middle …Nashville Predators F…Joe C Davis FoundationVanderbilt UniversityDorothy Cate and Thom…The Dan and Margaret …Dettwiller FoundationRyman Hospitality Pro…
Memorial Foundation IncTN71.8× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Nashville Predators Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · Vanderbilt University · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc · Dettwiller Foundation · Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tennessee Titans Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tennessee Titans Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    38report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Tennessee Titans Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Tennessee Titans Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 330 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-PF 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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