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The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc

Community foundation of middle tennessee strives to build a more thriving and inclusive community - today and for generations to come - by transforming throughtful generosity into positive change.

$119M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2,450
Grants FY2024still arriving
39
States reached
$20M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0173% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$84MArts & Culture$69MPhilanthropy$41MHuman Services$31MHousing & Shelter$27MHealth$23MAnimals$18MFood & Nutrition$9.1MReligion$9.1MOther$186M
02FY2024 · 2450 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2,450 grants below total $107,106,696 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $118,600,724 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,494,028 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 $10k1242 grants · $6.7M
  • $10k–50k879 grants · $16M
  • $50k–250k270 grants · $23M
  • $250k+59 grants · $61M
$8,500
Median grant
39
States reached
$832M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NASHVILLE CATALYST FUND$19,500,000
FEEDING AMERICA$5,000,000
MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY$4,500,000
AUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$2,000,000
NASHVILLE POLICE PUBLIC SAFETY ALLIANCE$1,640,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$1,200,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY - DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONS DAR$1,100,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY - DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONS DAR$1,050,000
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC (DAFGIVING360)$1,000,000
NASHVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION$1,000,000
CURREY INGRAM ACADEMY$1,000,000
MARTHA AND JOHN M RIVERS PERFORMANCE HALL FOUNDATION$1,000,000
EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE$1,000,000
MARTHA AND JOHN M RIVERS PERFORMANCE HALL FOUNDATION$1,000,000
NASHVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION$1,000,000
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, $8.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $100k → 16%KULTURE CITY: $176k → 16%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER: $100k → 12%NATIONAL COMPASSION FUND: $1.7M → 9%THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE: $100k → 15%ARK COMMUNITY RESOURCE AND ASSISTANCE CENTER: $75k → 9%HOLLY STREET DAYCARE: $319k → 14%3R'S CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $88k → 15%HOLLY STREET DAYCARE: $275k → 14%ELLIS MARSALLIS CENTER FOR MUSIC: $100k → 23%ELLIS MARSALLIS CENTER FOR MUSIC: $75k → 23%FANNIE BATTLE DAY HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $82k → 14%OLIVE TREE EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY: $83k → 12%ELLIS MARSALLIS CENTER FOR MUSIC: $75k → 23%LOVE IS A GIFT: $111k → 10%LOVE IS A GIFT: $100k → 10%PURPOSE POINT LEARNING ACADEMY: $100k → 12%HOLLY STREET DAYCARE: $65k → 14%MID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY: $75k → 14%YMCA EARLY LEARNING CENTER JACKSON: $100k → 17%YMCA EARLY LEARNING CENTER JOHNSON: $100k → 17%GLOBAL CHILDREN SERVICES UPTOWN: $100k → 17%EQUALLY CREATED: $75k → 14%EQUALLY CREATED: $65k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $100k → 14%THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $100k → 14%THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $100k → 14%GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $250k → 14%GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $203k → 14%GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $148k → 14%GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $91k → 14%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $209k → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $100k → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $67k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $250k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS NASHVILLE AREA CHAPTER: $125k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS NASHVILLE AREA CHAPTER: $108k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS NASHVILLE AREA CHAPTER: $100k → 14%ROOFTOP FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS NASHVILLE AREA CHAPTER: $100k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS NASHVILLE AREA CHAPTER: $100k → 14%ROOFTOP FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS NASHVILLE AREA CHAPTER: $100k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS NASHVILLE AREA CHAPTER: $70k → 14%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $250k → 14%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $150k → 14%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $100k → 14%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $75k → 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

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in TN; read by stated purpose it is 74% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.5% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$414M · 1433 repeat orgs$55M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

1433 repeat relationships — 775 still active in FY2024, 658 since wound down; 137 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1433
375

Total granted

$414M
$23M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+16%

Still filing today

63%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32M 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyAnimalsOther

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

  • NS
    Nashville Symphony Association
    8× · 2017–2024 · $21M · revenue +29% · 26% of their budget
  • Vanderbilt University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +74%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +36%
  • MJ
    MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $430k · revenue +3%
  • EL
    Environmental Law Institute
    one grant, 2021 · $308k · revenue +5%

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
Nashville Technology Council

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

Community Improvement
2
Leadership Tennessee Inc

Fosters collaborative, non-partisan dialogue on state issues, connecting network of leaders

Public Benefit
3
Persist Nashville

Increase college graduation rates of nashville, tn students.

Education
4
First Tennessee Human Resource Agency

First tennessee human resource agency is a governmental agency whose primary exepmt purpose is providing human resource programs to the cities and counties of northeast tennessee.

Human Services
5
Baptist Seminary of Kentucky

The baptist seminary of kentucky provides christian theological education committed to spiritual depth, intellectual honesty and moral integrity.

Education
6
Tusculum University

Being PIONEER Ready calls each of us to be Proactive, Interactive, Organized, Nettie-like (service-minded), Engaged, Ethical, and Responsible! Tusculum University seeks to instill in its graduates a sense of the world in which they live…

Education
7
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
8
Middle Tennessee Christian Foundation

Christian fellowship for college

Religion
9
Tn Afl-Cio Labor Council

Labor organization

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10
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
11
Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education
12
Carolina University

A Christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equally Created and the most unlike its peers is Travellers Rest Historic House. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsFood Banks and PantriesCommunity Arts CentersSenior Support ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community College Foundatio…Jewish Community Organizati…Equine Therapy ProgramsImmigrant Worker SupportWomen & Girls Leadership De…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Faith-Based Social ServicesVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Affordable Housing Developm…School District FoundationsYouth Development CentersPublic Library OperationsSchool Parent OrganizationsCommunity Food PantriesChristian Youth CampsDance Arts OrganizationsYouth Development ServicesYouth Mentoring ProgramsLocal Food System Organizat…Lgbtq+ Community SupportYouth Sports ProgramsElementary Literacy TutoringPregnancy Support ServicesCancer Support ServicesDomestic Violence ServicesAddiction Recovery ServicesDevelopmental Disabilities …Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Local History MuseumsUnited Way AffiliatesPolicy Research and AdvocacyChristian Missionary Organi…Community FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Affordable Housing Construc…Health Access Advocacy and …Animal Rescue and ShelterMilitary Veterans SupportYmca Youth DevelopmentCommunity Foundations
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 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%5%<5yr14%9%5–10yr17%22%10–20yr13%24%20–35yr11%22%35–55yr24%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%7%<5yr14%3%5–10yr17%13%10–20yr13%23%20–35yr11%23%35–55yr24%30%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%64/3,950
the rest of the field
14%
4,589/32,450

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

1205 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. 1205 of the 2,000 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.

85
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
395
Early backer (in before they grew)
1158/1205
Grantees still filing
878/1205
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Vanderbilt University — $11,139,143 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityCURREY INGRAM ACADEMY — $8,767,362 · EducationCURREY INGRAM ACADEMYMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE — $7,371,132 · EducationMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY…GARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC — $6,700,000 · EducationGARRISON FOREST SCHOOL …FISK UNIVERSITY — $3,576,228 · EducationTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL — $3,370,046 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY — $3,117,150 · EducationEPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE — $2,546,973 · EducationAUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $2,433,853 · EducationNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $2,388,875 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC — $2,372,125 · Education+20 more — $15,547,000 · Education+20 moreNashville Symphony Association — $21,412,382 · Arts & CultureNashville Symphony A…THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC — $7,113,344 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM …NASHVILLE BALLET — $5,635,991 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE BALLETNASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $4,098,898 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE REPERTORY …MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC — $3,210,000 · Arts & CultureMALTZ JUPITER THEATR…NASHVILLE OPERA ASSOCIATION — $2,984,537 · Arts & CultureCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART — $2,091,501 · Arts & CultureThe Martha and John M Rivers Performance Hall Foundation — $2,025,000 · Arts & Culture+15 more — $11,261,571 · Arts & Culture+15 moreVanderbilt University Medical Center — $5,366,285 · OtherTALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC — $8,866,647 · OtherTALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INCFeeding America — $5,225,550 · Other+101 more — $96,960,753 · Other+101 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $10,860,246 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVIS…UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $10,531,456 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $4,147,491 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN EN…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $2,375,289 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNI…BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD — $1,226,860 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $1,219,474 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC — $1,158,331 · Philanthropy+4 more — $2,193,233 · Philanthropy+4 moreTHE NASHVILLE CATALYST FUND — $19,500,000 · Housing & ShelterABE'S GARDEN — $2,180,876 · Housing & ShelterAPPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC — $1,504,042 · Housing & Shelter+3 more — $2,185,034 · Housing & ShelterYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) — $3,760,476 · Human ServicesYMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH — $2,088,242 · Human ServicesNATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME INC — $1,817,534 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,803,254 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NASHVILLE — $1,125,618 · Human ServicesHolly Street Corporation — $992,844 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER — $871,782 · Human ServicesKIDS PLACE INC — $786,237 · Human ServicesALIVE HOSPICE INC — $651,851 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE — $611,096 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC — $608,068 · Human Services+5 more — $2,291,379 · Human ServicesNASHVILLE ZOO INC — $6,227,122 · AnimalsNASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY — $2,704,204 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF DICKSON COUNTY — $2,118,995 · AnimalsTHE UNITED STATES SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC — $720,000 · AnimalsTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE — $684,304 · AnimalsPROVERBS 1210 ANIMAL RESCUE AND ADOPTION — $537,141 · AnimalsWALDENS PUDDLE WILDLIFE REHABILITATION & EDUCATIO — $480,811 · Animals+2 more — $844,343 · Animals
Education$69,329,887Arts & Culture$59,833,224Other$116,419,235Philanthropy$33,712,380Housing & Shelter$25,369,952Human Services$17,408,381Animals$14,316,920

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetNashville Symphony Association — $21,412,382 over 8y, 26% of budgetTHE NASHVILLE CATALYST FUND — $19,500,000 over 1y, 98% of budgetVanderbilt University — $11,139,143 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $10,860,246 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $10,531,456 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetTALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC — $8,866,647 over 8y, 14% of budgetCURREY INGRAM ACADEMY — $8,767,362 over 8y, 9.9% of budgetMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE — $7,371,132 over 8y, 8.7% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC — $7,113,344 over 8y, 18% of budgetGARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC — $6,700,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetNASHVILLE ZOO INC — $6,227,122 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetNASHVILLE BALLET — $5,635,991 over 8y, 14% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $5,366,285 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $5,225,550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $4,147,491 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $4,098,898 over 8y, 73% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) — $3,760,476 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetInspiritus Inc — $3,751,167 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetFISK UNIVERSITY — $3,576,228 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL — $3,370,046 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetMERCY MULTIPLIED AMERICA INC — $3,370,003 over 6y, 9.8% of budgetMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC — $3,210,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $3,117,150 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC — $3,043,207 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetNASHVILLE OPERA ASSOCIATION — $2,984,537 over 8y, 21% of budgetNASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY — $2,704,204 over 8y, 17% of budgetEPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE — $2,546,973 over 8y, 30% of budgetAUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $2,433,853 over 8y, 9.8% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $2,388,875 over 8y, 9.6% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $2,375,289 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC — $2,372,125 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetABE'S GARDEN — $2,180,876 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF DICKSON COUNTY — $2,118,995 over 6y, 86% of budgetCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART — $2,091,501 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetYMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH — $2,088,242 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetThe Martha and John M Rivers Performance Hall Foundation — $2,025,000 over 2y, 61% of budgetSPECIAL FORCES ASSOCIATION — $1,921,635 over 4y, 53% of budgetGENESIS GLOBAL MINISTRIES INC — $1,895,000 over 8y, 46% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME INC — $1,817,534 over 2y, 41% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC — $1,816,445 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,803,254 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHARDING ACADEMY — $1,783,200 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetNASHVILLE POLICE & PUBLIC SAFETY ALLIANCE — $1,698,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL — $1,678,113 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetSADDLE UP — $1,668,368 over 8y, 19% of budgetMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC — $1,666,241 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc — $1,580,575 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAPPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC — $1,504,042 over 5y, 4.1% 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.

  • Who funds Nashville Symphony Association ↗
  • Who funds THE NASHVILLE CATALYST FUND ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
  • Who funds TALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds CURREY INGRAM ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds GARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO INC ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE BALLET ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) ↗
  • Who funds Inspiritus Inc ↗
  • Who funds FISK UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MERCY MULTIPLIED AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ABE'S GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF DICKSON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH ↗

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 Frist FoundationMemorial Foundation I…United Way of Middle …Nashville Predators F…The Healing Trust For…Dorothy Cate and Thom…Joe C Davis FoundationThe Dan and Margaret …Dettwiller FoundationThe Steven & Laurie E…Carolyn Smith Foundat…Louie M & Betty M Phi…
The Frist FoundationTN153.1× affinity213 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Nashville Predators Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc · Dettwiller Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Carolyn Smith Foundation · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn

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 The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee 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.

2024
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no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
  • National Center for Victims of Crime Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Tall Timbers Research Inc — 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
54report 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

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.

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 2000 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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