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The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
81
Grants FY2024
72
Organizations funded FY2023
22%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$94,500
Organizations funded a year
62 to 95
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$46M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $355k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving80$1.9M28%
FY202372$1.7M22%
FY202295$1.9M17%
FY202191$1.8M24%
FY202080$2.0M23%
FY201875$2.0M25%
FY201762$2.0Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.4MYouth Development$2.9MEnvironment$1.3MHuman Services$1.3MCivil Rights$888kCommunity Improvement$769kReligion$525kHealth$383kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
RI
CA
TN
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 129 grantees
All grantees of The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Oasis Center Inc$360,00072%
Cumberland River Compact Inc$345,500722%
Belmont University$307,30030%
Conexion Americas$300,00072%
Tennessee Wildlife Federation Inc$280,00053%
Salama Urban Ministries Inc$279,000710%
The Launch Pad$272,00059%
Nashville Public Education Foundation$268,50054%
Big Brothersbig Sisters of Middle Tn$261,50073%
Hands on Nashville Inc$245,75054%
Nashville International Center for Empowerment$210,00071%
Martha O'Bryan Center Inc$200,00041%
Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors$199,750710%
Communities in Schools of Tennessee$198,50051%
Tennessee Educators of Color Alliance N$194,000413%
Pencil Foundation$185,50071%
Nashville Freedom School Partnership$185,100629%
Monroe Harding Inc$180,00071%
Tennessee State University Foundation$165,00051%
100 Black Men of Middle Tn Inc$160,00063%
The Equity Alliance$155,00024%
Homework Hotline Inc$152,500511%
Southern Movement Committee$145,000312%
Nashville Public Library Foundation$143,00051%
Tennessee Environmental Council$142,50076%
Equal Chance for Education$141,00043%
Southern Word Inc$140,80074%
Nashville Teacher Residency$137,00053%
Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee Inc$136,00051%
Governor's Early Literacy Foundation$125,00050%
Friends of Mill Ridge Park$125,000517%
Raphah Institute$120,00054%
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Foundation Inc$120,00031%
Harpeth Conservancy$119,00058%
Nashville Peace and Justice Center$118,500380%
AMERICAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY dba AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE$115,50051%
Legacy Mission Village$115,00053%
Center for Nonprofit Management Inc$114,29662%
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc$110,00032%
Senior Citizens Inc$105,00041%
The Education Trust Inc$105,00030%
Nations Ministry Center$104,30072%
Futuro Inc$102,500346%
Women of Color Collaborative$101,2004n/a
The Mosaic Institute$100,00045%
American Muslim Advisory Counc$96,00057%
Workers' Dignity Project$92,70056%
Dynamic Young Minorities of Nashville D-Y-M-O-N in the Rough$90,00045%
Brooklyn Heights Community Garden$90,000327%
McNeilly Center for Children Inc$89,00041%
Bethlehem Centers of Nashville$88,40072%
Teach for America Inc$85,00020%
East Nashville Hope Exchange Inc$82,00076%
Why We Can T Wait$81,00047%
Nashville Organized for Action and Hope$80,000410%
Gallatin Shalom Zone Inc$80,00047%
Nashville Peacemakers$80,000517%
Fisk University$76,00040%
Lipscomb University$75,00050%
Backfield in Motion$70,00042%
One Willco$67,000337%
Persist Nashville$66,00036%
Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc$65,00051%
Elmahaba Center$65,000415%
Philanthropy Southeast Inc$63,72071%
Urban Green Lab$57,00023%
Edgehill Neighborhood Partnership$51,00049%
The Lewis County Historical Society Inc$50,800540%
Book Em$48,50051%
Frank Town Open Hearts Ministry Inc$47,50071%
Civic Tn$47,00031%
Youth Incorporated$42,60052%
Unmanageable$40,000136%
Music City Construction Careers Inc$40,00029%
Ducks Unlimited Inc$37,50010%
Harvest Hands Community Development Corporation Inc$35,00021%
Operation Andrew Group Inc$35,00045%
The FIND Design$35,00017%
Project Transformation Tennessee Inc$35,00041%
St Luke's Community House Inc$35,00031%
Tenngreen Land Conservancy$31,00021%
YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee$30,00010%
Richland Creek Watershed Alliance$30,000230%
Murfreesboro Muslim Youth Inc$30,000312%
Center for Contemplative Justice$30,00011%
BeWell in School$25,00016%
American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee Foundation Inc$25,00012%
From Your Father Inc$25,000125%
Native American Indian Association of Tennessee$25,00031%
Stars Inc$23,0003n/a
Wayne Reed Christian Childcare Center Inc$20,50031%
J C Movement Inc$20,000124%
Tennessee Nonprofit Network$20,00024%
Civic Design Center$20,00021%
Launch Mentorship$20,0003n/a
Transformation Nashville Inc$20,0001n/a
Starlings Nashville$20,0001n/a
Black Lemonade$20,00015%
Kipp Nashville$18,50020%
Plant the Seed$18,00024%
Nurture the Next Fka Prevent Child Abuse Tennessee$16,27420%
Tennessee Equality Project$15,000120%
Wilco Iris$15,0001n/a
Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization$15,00011%
Organize Tennessee$10,00015%
Preston Taylor Ministries$10,00011%
Tennessee Ancient Sites Conservancy$10,0001n/a
Volunteer State Seal of Biliteracy$10,0002n/a
Cosecha Community Development$10,00015%
Youth Villages Inc$7,00010%
Children Are People Rutherford County Inc$7,00012%
Urban Housing Solutions Inc$6,00010%
Sons$5,0001n/a
Dancing Through the Curriculum$5,00017%
Beech Creek Ministries Inc$5,00015%
Turnip Green Creative Reuse$5,00010%
Alignment Nashville Inc$5,00010%
Empowerment Inc$5,0001n/a
Elevated Development Inc$5,0001n/a
Communitynashville$5,00017%
Nashville Food Project Inc$3,00010%
Glsen Inc$2,50010%
Association of Black Foundation Executives Inc$2,50010%
Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce$1,50030%
Human Trafficking Survivors Court Foundation Inc$1,1002n/a
Creative Girls Rock$1,00012%
Leadership Middle Tennessee Inc$60020%
Rock the Street Wall Street$50010%
Tennessee Women in Green$1001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 116 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOasis Center Inc: $360,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetCumberland River Compact Inc: $345,500 over 7y, 22% of budgetBelmont University: $307,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetConexion Americas: $300,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetTennessee Wildlife Federation Inc: $280,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetSalama Urban Ministries Inc: $279,000 over 7y, 9.6% of budgetThe Launch Pad: $272,000 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetNashville Public Education Foundation: $268,500 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetBig Brothersbig Sisters of Middle Tn: $261,500 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetHands on Nashville Inc: $245,750 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetNashville International Center for Empowerment: $210,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetMartha O'Bryan Center Inc: $200,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTennessee Justice for Our Neighbors: $199,750 over 7y, 10% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Tennessee: $198,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTennessee Educators of Color Alliance N: $194,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetPencil Foundation: $185,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetNashville Freedom School Partnership: $185,100 over 6y, 29% of budgetMonroe Harding Inc: $180,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetTennessee State University Foundation: $165,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budget100 Black Men of Middle Tn Inc: $160,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetThe Equity Alliance: $155,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetHomework Hotline Inc: $152,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetSouthern Movement Committee: $145,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetNashville Public Library Foundation: $143,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTennessee Environmental Council: $142,500 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetEqual Chance for Education: $141,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetSouthern Word Inc: $140,800 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetNashville Teacher Residency: $137,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetGirl Scouts of Middle Tennessee Inc: $136,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGovernor's Early Literacy Foundation: $125,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of Mill Ridge Park: $125,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetRaphah Institute: $120,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetTennessee Wildlife Resources Foundation Inc: $120,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHarpeth Conservancy: $119,000 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetNashville Peace and Justice Center: $118,500 over 3y, 80% of budgetAMERICAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY dba AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE: $115,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetLegacy Mission Village: $115,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetCenter for Nonprofit Management Inc: $114,296 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetThe Land Trust for Tennessee Inc: $110,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSenior Citizens Inc: $105,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetThe Education Trust Inc: $105,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNations Ministry Center: $104,300 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetFuturo Inc: $102,500 over 3y, 46% of budgetThe Mosaic Institute: $100,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetAmerican Muslim Advisory Counc: $96,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetWorkers' Dignity Project: $92,700 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetDynamic Young Minorities of Nashville D-Y-M-O-N in the Rough: $90,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetBrooklyn Heights Community Garden: $90,000 over 3y, 27% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 116.

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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.

The Frist FoundationTN102.6× affinity49 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 · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Hca Healthcare Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Joe C Davis Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Carolyn Smith Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family 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.

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About The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc

How much does The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc give?
The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc reported 81 grants totaling $1,914,214 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 62 and 95 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (25%), Youth Development (21%), Environment (10%).
Who are The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Oasis Center Inc ($360k), Cumberland River Compact Inc ($346k), Belmont University ($307k).
Does The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Frist Foundation, Memorial Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc.
Where is The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc based?
The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc is based in TN.

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 177 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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