· Private foundation
The Mick Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $25,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $10,000 |
| OUR CHURCH MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| HARDING ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $10,000 |
| MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| BRENTWOOD HISTORIC COMMISSION | $7,000 |
| ABLE YOUTH | $5,000 |
| AGAPE | $5,000 |
| TEAM CHAD | $5,000 |
| AN SPORTS CLUB | $2,500 |
| WAYNE REED CENTER | $2,500 |
| BEST BUDDIES OF TN | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–23, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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 +36% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 8 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- FRFRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC4× · 2019–2023 · $331k · revenue +70%
- HAHARDING ACADEMY3× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +27%
- AYAble Youth Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $30k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHARLIE DANIELS JOURNEY HOME PROJECTone grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue -1%
- TSTHE SNEDEKER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -46%
- FFFlanders Fields Ltd Flanders Fieldsone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -26%
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.
The organization supports local non-profits that enhance the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Our mission is to strengthen the support of families grieving the loss of a child, fighting childhood cancer, and inspire hope and kindness.
Our mission: A worldwide charitable fellowship united by a common loyalty to Jesus Christ for the purpose of helping people grow in spirit, mind and body. The YMCA of Middle Tennessee is the region's leading nonprofit dedicated to…
The mission of easterseals tennessee is to make profound positive differences in the lives of people with disabilities as they learn, work, and play in their communities.
Form 990, part iii, line 1, description of organization mission: whouwith? ministries is a non-profit organization that works directly with the student/athletes and coaches at belmont and vanderbilt universities as well as staff and team…
TinCup Charity Group, Inc. is a nonprofit organization located in Brentwood, Tennessee. The mission of our organization is to put on a yearly golf tournament partnering with a single charity and donating all funds raised directly to that…
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
Operation Andrew Group seeks to unite the Body of Christ as we partner with the local church to love God and our neighbors. The Organization exists to unite the local Church for the flourishing of all. The Organization is a Christian…
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.
Rahab House is deeply committed to the rescue, refuge, and restoration of human trafficking survivors. We provide comprehensive support that encompasses immediate safety and connections to long-term restorative care in alignment with the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition and the most unlike its peers is Flanders Fields Ltd Flanders Fields. 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 12 years old; the field is 13. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 40 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 FRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds OUR CHURCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HARDING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Able Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TROY GENTRY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOR OTHERS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLIE DANIELS JOURNEY HOME PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE SNEDEKER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Flanders Fields Ltd Flanders Fields ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD ROTARY CLUB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ENCOURAGEMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds TEAM CHAD ↗
- Who funds RESCUE 1 GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds AN SPORTS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds WATER WALKERS ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING COALITION ↗
- Who funds IN HIS GRIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds My Friend's House Family and Children Services Inc ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR BRENTWOOD GREEN SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE BREAST CANCER COALITION ↗
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 · Nashville Predators Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Servant Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Mick Foundation 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.