· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CARENET PREGNANCY SERVICES OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $10,000 |
| READ | $10,000 |
| CLEMENT RAILROAD HOTEL MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| CASA OF DICKSON | $10,000 |
| THE QUEST CENTER | $10,000 |
| DICKSON COMMUNITY CLINIC | $10,000 |
| TENNESSEE WILDLIFE RESOURCES AGENCY | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +40% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Jackson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jackson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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