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The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
81
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$3.4MYouth Development$2.9MEnvironment$1.3MHuman Services$1.3MCivil Rights$888kCommunity Improvement$769kReligion$525kHealth$383kOther$0
02FY2024 · 81 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k57 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $634k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$46M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIG$94,500
EQUITY ALLIANCE$85,000
SOUTHERN MOVEMENT COMMITTEE$65,000
LAUNCH PAD$65,000
TENNESSEE EDUCATORS OF COLOR ALLIAN$62,000
NASHVILLE PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER$55,000
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY GARDEN$55,000
FUTURO INC$52,500
NASHVILLE FREEDOM SCHOOL PARTNERSHI$50,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF TENNESSEE AND$50,000
CONEXION AMERICAS$45,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TN$42,500
SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES$40,000
EDUCATION TRUST$40,000
TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATI$40,000
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, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILDREN ARE PEOPLE: $7k → 8%LEGACY MISSION VILLAGE: $25k → 4%LEGACY MISSION VILLAGE: $25k → 4%LEGACY MISSION VILLAGE: $25k → 4%PLANT THE SEED: $15k → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $15k → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $60k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $50k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $45k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $40k → 14%TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS: $39k → 14%TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS: $31k → 14%EDGEHILL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP: $15k → 14%FROM YOUR FATHER: $25k → 14%TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS: $30k → 14%TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS: $30k → 14%TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS: $25k → 14%EDGEHILL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP: $14k → 14%EDGEHILL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP: $12k → 14%TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS: $25k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $25k → 14%EDGEHILL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP: $10k → 14%TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS: $20k → 14%YOUTH VILLAGES: $7k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES: $45k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $40k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES: $40k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $40k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES: $40k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES: $40k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES: $40k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES: $37k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES: $37k → 14%FIFTYFORWARD: $35k → 14%FIFTYFORWARD: $25k → 14%FIFTYFORWARD: $25k → 14%FIFTYFORWARD: $20k → 14%BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE: $15k → 14%BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE: $15k → 14%BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE: $13k → 14%BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE: $13k → 14%BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE: $12k → 14%BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE: $10k → 14%BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE: $10k → 14%WAYNE REED CHRISTIAN CHILDCARE CENT: $8k → 14%WAYNE REED CHRISTIAN CHILDCARE CENT: $8k → 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

IL
NY
RI
CA
TN
DC
GA
TX

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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 33% of The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund 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, 97% of the giving stays in TN; read by stated purpose it is 66% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 116 repeat orgs$793k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

116 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2024, 58 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

116
37

Total granted

$13M
$429k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+25%

Still filing today

76%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $365k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • OC
    OASIS CENTER INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $360k · revenue +57%
  • CR
    CUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $346k · revenue +908%
  • BU
    Belmont University
    3× · 2017–2020 · $307k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • PA
    PARKS AT KIMBRO STATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • U
    UNMANAGEABLEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue ×20 · 36% of their budget
  • DU
    Ducks Unlimited Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $38k · revenue +99%

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.

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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
2
Tennessee Geographic Alliance

Education

Education
3
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
4
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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5
Tennessee Progress

Tennessee progress works to uplift the values and voices of the progressive movement across tennessee by elevating the issues that matter most to our communities. tennessee progress is a digital and communications hub for the progressive…

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6
Urban League of Middle Tennessee

Our mission is to help African Americans & others in underserved communities achieve their highest true social parity, economic self-reliance, power and civil rights. The League promotes economic empowerment for those in Middle TN.

Human Services
7
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
8
Opportunity Nashville

Opportunity nashville is an advocacy organization focused on improving educational equity in nashville. our mission is to ensure that every child in nashville has access to a high-quality public education.

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9
Leadership Nashville Foundation

Leadership nashville identifies and invites a diverse cross-section of professional, civic and charitable leaders to participate in an intensive program designed to give them a multi-dimensional understanding of the community.

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10
Nashville Charter Collaborative

The mission of the NCC is to ensure that every child in Nashville has access to a high-quality public school. 1 in every 5 Nashville public school students is enrolled in a charter school. The Nashville Charter Collaborative advocates on…

Education
11
Nashville Inner City Ministry Inc

Nashville inner city ministry is a christ-centered community organization dedicated to empowering the spiritual, educational and vocational development of at-risk youth and their families.

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12
Stand Up Nashville

Organized for the charitable purpose of advocating for inclusive development policies, and to do what is necessary to empower communities to stand up and take action to create lasting change for the economic good of people of the city.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alignment Nashville Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stars Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%4%<5yr15%22%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr12%10%35–55yr11%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%3%<5yr15%18%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr12%11%35–55yr11%17%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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%3/131
the rest of the field
14%
619/4,555

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

120 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. 120 of the 177 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
51
Early backer (in before they grew)
117/120
Grantees still filing
89/120
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIG — $366,500 · OtherTENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF MID- — $350,500 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF MID-YWCA — $267,500 · OtherHANDS ON NASHVILLE INC — $245,750 · OtherNASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT — $210,000 · OtherTHE LAUNCH PAD — $272,000 · Other+98 more — $4,166,488 · Other+98 moreBelmont University — $307,300 · EducationBelmont UniversityNASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $268,500 · EducationNASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATIO…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TENNESSEE — $198,500 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF…Tennessee Educators of Color Alliance N — $194,000 · EducationTennessee Educators of Co…PENCIL FOUNDATION — $185,500 · EducationPENCIL FOUNDATIONNASHVILLE FREEDOM SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP — $185,100 · EducationNASHVILLE FREEDOM SCHOOL …TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $165,000 · EducationTENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSIT…HOMEWORK HOTLINE INC — $152,500 · EducationNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $143,000 · EducationEQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION — $141,000 · EducationNashville Teacher Residency — $137,000 · EducationGOVERNOR'S EARLY LITERACY FOUNDATION — $125,000 · EducationAMERICAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY dba AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE — $115,500 · EducationThe Education Trust Inc — $105,000 · EducationFUTURO INC — $102,500 · Education+13 more — $493,500 · Education+13 moreCONEXION AMERICAS — $300,000 · Human ServicesCONEXION A…SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES INC — $279,000 · Human ServicesSALAMA URB…TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS — $199,750 · Human ServicesTENNESSEE …LEGACY MISSION VILLAGE — $115,000 · Human ServicesLEGACY MIS…SENIOR CITIZENS INC — $105,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR CIT…BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE — $88,400 · Human ServicesBETHLEHEM …EDGEHILL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP — $51,000 · Human Services+6 more — $112,500 · Human Services+6 moreCUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC — $345,500 · EnvironmentCUMBERLAND…TENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC — $280,000 · EnvironmentTENNESSEE …TENNESSEE ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $142,500 · EnvironmentTENNESSEE …Friends of Mill Ridge Park — $125,000 · EnvironmentFriends of…HARPETH CONSERVANCY — $119,000 · EnvironmentHARPETH CO…THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC — $110,000 · EnvironmentTHE LAND T…URBAN GREEN LAB — $57,000 · Environment+1 more — $37,500 · EnvironmentBIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN — $261,500 · Youth Development100 BLACK MEN OF MIDDLE TN INC — $160,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOUTHERN WORD INC — $140,800 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $136,000 · Youth DevelopmentWHY WE CAN T WAIT — $81,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH INCORPORATED — $42,600 · Youth DevelopmentThe FIND Design — $35,000 · Youth Development+3 more — $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentOASIS CENTER INC — $360,000 · Community ImprovementRAPHAH INSTITUTE — $120,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT INC — $114,296 · Community ImprovementBROOKLYN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY GARDEN — $90,000 · Community ImprovementGALLATIN SHALOM ZONE INC — $80,000 · Community ImprovementHARVEST HANDS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC — $35,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $30,000 · Community ImprovementMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC — $200,000 · ReligionNATIONS MINISTRY CENTER — $104,300 · ReligionAMERICAN MUSLIM ADVISORY COUNC — $96,000 · ReligionOPERATION ANDREW GROUP INC — $35,000 · ReligionPROJECT TRANSFORMATION TENNESSEE INC — $35,000 · Religion+1 more — $15,000 · Religion
Other$5,878,738Education$3,018,900Human Services$1,250,650Environment$1,216,500Youth Development$916,900Community Improvement$829,296Religion$485,300

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 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 budgetTENNESSEE WILDLIFE RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC — $120,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetRAPHAH INSTITUTE — $120,000 over 5y, 4.3% 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 budgetThe Education Trust Inc — $105,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC — $105,000 over 4y, 0.7% 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 budgetBROOKLYN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY GARDEN — $90,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetDYNAMIC YOUNG MINORITIES OF NASHVILLE D-Y-M-O-N IN THE ROUGH — $90,000 over 4y, 4.8% 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 OASIS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC ↗
  • Who funds Belmont University ↗
  • Who funds CONEXION AMERICAS ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LAUNCH PAD ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN ↗
  • Who funds HANDS ON NASHVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds Tennessee Educators of Color Alliance N ↗
  • Who funds PENCIL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE FREEDOM SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds MONROE HARDING INC ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds 100 BLACK MEN OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EQUITY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds HOMEWORK HOTLINE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN MOVEMENT COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN WORD INC ↗
  • Who funds Nashville Teacher Residency ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
  • Who funds GOVERNOR'S EARLY LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Mill Ridge Park ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE WILDLIFE RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC ↗

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…The Community Foundat…The Healing Trust For…Hca Healthcare Founda…United Way of Middle …Joe C Davis FoundationNashville Predators F…Dorothy Cate and Thom…Carolyn Smith Foundat…Dollar General Litera…The Steven & Laurie E…
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

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 Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    43report 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 177 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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