· Private foundation
The Jackson Foundation Inc
The jackson foundation is a non-profit organization conceived with the conviction that educational motivation and learning involvement are the keys to our society's future.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k9 grants · $95k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NASHVILLE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $2,619,305 |
| FRIENDS OF TENNESSEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE | $15,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| CASA OF DICKSON | $10,000 |
| CARENET PREGNANCY SERVICES OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $10,000 |
| READ | $10,000 |
| CLEMENT RAILROAD HOTEL MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| THE QUEST CENTER | $10,000 |
| DICKSON COMMUNITY CLINIC | $10,000 |
| TENNESSEE WILDLIFE RESOURCES AGENCY | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- DCDICKSON COMMUNITY CLINIC8× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +240%
- QCQUEST CENTER FOR ART & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +9%
- COCASA OF HIGHLAND RIM8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +357%
Funded once
- DCDICKSON COUNTY SCHOOLSone grant, 2021 · $2.3M
- AABLEVOICESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +92%
- KRKinsman Redeemer Homeless Ministrygraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +301%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To Preserve and teach Local Hictory
The Anderson County Community Action Commission provides food, clothing, household foods, and essential assistance to low-income residents of Anderson County, Tennessee. The organization operates a community food pantry, clothing closet,…
The mission of My Fathers House Nashville (MFHN) is to provide shelter, parenting education, recovery information and life skills for fathers transitioning out of institutional settings or homelessness.
Provide a safe and compassionate, child focused center to promptly and thoroughly investigate child abuse.
Effective prosecution of child abuses, providing therapy and education for the abused, and providing a safe haven for the abused.
Provide chaplaincy in dickson county jail
Building homes working families can afford. We are dedicated to: providing new, affordable homes to residents in the South Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee; preparing future and current homeowners to both acquire and maintain a safe and…
Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Tennessee Youth Court (TYC) is a teen-driven juvenile delinquency prevention/intervention diversion program based on restorative justice.
Interview facility for child abuse victims.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dickson County Help Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Care Net Pregnancy Medical Center. 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 21 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
25 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. 25 of the 50 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds DICKSON COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds QUEST CENTER FOR ART & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF HIGHLAND RIM ↗
- Who funds GOVERNOR FRANK G CLEMENT RAILROAD HOTEL AND HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds FREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DRUG FREE DICKSON COALITION ↗
- Who funds GOVERNOR'S EARLY LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RENAISSANCE PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MONTGOMERY BELL STATE RESORT PARK INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds CARE NET PREGNANCY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Dickson County Family Young Mens Christian Associ ↗
- Who funds WOMEN ARE SAFE INC ↗
- Who funds PROMISE LAND HERITAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TENNESSEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ↗
- Who funds ABLEVOICES ↗
- Who funds Kinsman Redeemer Homeless Ministry ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · United Way of Dickson County · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Goodlark Educational Foundation · Devine-Majors Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Jackson Foundation 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.
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.
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