· Public charity
The Kind Charities of Tennessee Inc
Provide support to tax-exempt section 501 c 3 organizations that assist individuals with intellectual disabilities in Tennessee.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $34,793 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $44,793 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,000 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hilltoppers Inc | $19,793 |
| The Arc of Cumberland County | $8,000 |
| Common Grounds | $7,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $210k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 85% 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.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- HIHILLTOPPERS INC6× · 2018–2025 · $123k · revenue +61%
- TATHE ARC CUMBERLAND COUNTY7× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +10% · 33% of their budget
- MDMICHAEL DUNN CENTER2× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- HHHOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN INCone grant, 2024 · $31k · revenue +4%
- ACAdult Community Training Incone grant, 2024 · $31k · revenue +2%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS TENNESSEE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $17k · revenue +48%
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.
Provides support services to individuals with disabilities in the form of outreach, training education, consultants and referrals requarding use of assistive technologies.
To provide high quality caring individualized services to enrich the lives of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Northeast Tennessee.
It is our mission to nuture an environment where individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities are valued, provided opportunities, and treated with god's love and compassion.
The organization provides opportunities for growth, independence, and fulfillment for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities by offering a loving, nurturing, and affordable residential community, along with structured…
Assists adults with developmental disabilities through vocational and residential programs.
To provide services for training of developmentally disabled adults
Provides support and services to individuals from 5 years to seniors with developmental disabilities and/or phsyical limitations.
To provide training and independent living skills to individuals with development disabilities so they may become as self-reliant as possible and lead more meaningful lives in the community.
To provide the highest quality care and opportunities affording individuals with developmental disabilities to lead successful and fulfilling lives withing their communities
To assist persons with intellectual disabilities and other disabilities live in the community in such a way that there is an acceptable balance between their opportunities to experience a lifestyle meaningful to themselves and the risks…
The mission of sds is to support persons with developmental disabilities within their local communities, assist in the person achieving their fullest potential for vocational and integrated living, and becoming an integral and responsible…
To develop affordable housing and to provide life support skills for intellectually and/or developmentally disabled adults, homeless disabled veterans, and homeless foster children/young adults in transition.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Orange Grove Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mountain Region Speech and Hearing Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 24 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 HILLTOPPERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC CUMBERLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Adult Community Training Inc ↗
- Who funds SUMNER SPECIAL HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL DUNN CENTER ↗
- Who funds Mountain Region Speech and Hearing Center ↗
- Who funds MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds New Life Outreach ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE ORANGE GROVE CENTER 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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Kind Charities of 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.
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.