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The Kind Charities of Tennessee Inc

Provide support to tax-exempt section 501 c 3 organizations that assist individuals with intellectual disabilities in Tennessee.

$45k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$148kHealth$146kHousing & Shelter$89kRecreation & Sports$43kEducation$11kArts & Culture$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $34,793, the rows itemized in this filing. The $44,793 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hilltoppers Inc$19,793
The Arc of Cumberland County$8,000
Common Grounds$7,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ADULT COMMUNITY TRAINING: $31k → 10%MICHAEL DUNN CENTER: $8k → 13%HILLTOPPERS INC: $25k → 14%HOPE AND TRIVE ACADEMY: $31k → 17%ARC OF KNOX COUNTY: $6k → 12%HILL TOPPERS INC: $23k → 14%ORANGE GROVE CENTER: $5k → 12%MICHAEL DUNN CENTER: $5k → 13%HILLTOPPERS INC: $21k → 14%Hilltoppers Inc: $20k → 14%HILLTOPERS INC: $18k → 14%HILLTOPPERS INC: $16k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$442k · 8 repeat orgs$185k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
15

Total granted

$442k
$178k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+23%

Still filing today

50%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HI
    HILLTOPPERS INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $123k · revenue +61%
  • TA
    THE ARC CUMBERLAND COUNTY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +10% · 33% of their budget
  • MD
    MICHAEL DUNN CENTER
    2× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • HH
    HOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN INC
    one grant, 2024 · $31k · revenue +4%
  • AC
    Adult Community Training Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $31k · revenue +2%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS TENNESSEE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $17k · revenue +48%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Access Services of Middle Tennessee

Provides support services to individuals with disabilities in the form of outreach, training education, consultants and referrals requarding use of assistive technologies.

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2
Dawn of Hope Inc

To provide high quality caring individualized services to enrich the lives of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Northeast Tennessee.

Human Services
3
Hope Center of Hendersonville

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.

Religion
4
Noahs House

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…

Housing & Shelter
5
Developmental Services of Jackson County Inc

Assists adults with developmental disabilities through vocational and residential programs.

—
6
Jackson County Arc Inc

To provide services for training of developmentally disabled adults

Human Services
7
Graham County Rehabilitaion Center Inc

Provides support and services to individuals from 5 years to seniors with developmental disabilities and/or phsyical limitations.

Human Services
8
Diversified Services Inc

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.

Employment
9
West Tennessee Family Solutions Inc

To provide the highest quality care and opportunities affording individuals with developmental disabilities to lead successful and fulfilling lives withing their communities

Health
10
Mid-Tn Supported Living Inc

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…

Human Services
11
Southeastern Developmental Services Inc

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…

Human Services
12
Soar Tennessee

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Orange Grove Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 24 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OTHER 5000 OR BELOW: $161,064 · OtherOTHER 5000 OR BELOWTHE ARC CUMBERLAND COUNTY: $71,520 · OtherTHE ARC CUMBERLAND COUNTYSIGNAL CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN: $29,500 · OtherSIGNAL CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDRENSUMNER SPECIAL HOUSING INC: $20,315 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS TENNESSEE INC: $17,456 · OtherHAND IN HAND: $15,427 · Other+9 more: $74,024 · Other+9 moreHILLTOPPERS INC: $123,204 · Human ServicesHILLTOPPERS INCHOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $31,089 · Human ServicesHOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN INCAdult Community Training Inc: $30,938 · Human ServicesAdult Community Training IncMICHAEL DUNN CENTER: $12,635 · Human ServicesMICHAEL DUNN CENTER+2 more: $11,724 · Human Services+2 moreMountain Region Speech and Hearing Center: $11,000 · HealthMADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED: $10,504 · EducationNew Life Outreach: $7,000 · Religion
Other$389,306Human Services$209,590Health$11,000Education$10,504Religion$7,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHILLTOPPERS INC: $123,204 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARC CUMBERLAND COUNTY: $71,520 over 7y, 33% of budgetHOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $31,089 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAdult Community Training Inc: $30,938 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSUMNER SPECIAL HOUSING INC: $20,315 over 2y, 27% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS TENNESSEE INC: $17,456 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMICHAEL DUNN CENTER: $12,635 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMountain Region Speech and Hearing Center: $11,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED: $10,504 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST TENNESSEE INC: $9,951 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNew Life Outreach: $7,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetSUNSHINE SERVICES: $6,399 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC: $5,325 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA6.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Kind Charities of Tennessee Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kind Charities of Tennessee Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
    5report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 24 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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