How much does The Mick Foundation give?

The Mick Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $104,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 20 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does The Mick Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (57%), Religion (10%), Youth Development (8%).

Who are The Mick Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Franklin Road Academy Inc ($331k), Our Church Ministries Inc ($50k), Lighthouse Ministries of Antioch Tn Inc ($45k).

Does The Mick Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Mick Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Mick Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Nashville Predators Foundation, Memorial Foundation Inc.

Where is The Mick Foundation based?

The Mick Foundation is based in TN.

The Mick Foundation

The Mick Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Mick Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$105k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$556kReligion$101kYouth Development$74kHuman Services$66kArts & Culture$42kPhilanthropy$40kHealth$33kAnimals$23kOther$0

02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k7 grants · $30k
$10k–50k6 grants · $75k

$7,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY	$25,000
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION	$10,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT	$10,000
OUR CHURCH MINISTRIES	$10,000
HARDING ACADEMY	$10,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS	$10,000
BRENTWOOD HISTORIC COMMISSION	$7,000
AGAPE	$5,000
TEAM CHAD	$5,000
ABLE YOUTH	$5,000
BEST BUDDIES OF TN	$2,500
WAYNE REED CENTER	$2,500
AN SPORTS CLUB	$2,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$877k · 18 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$877k

$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

-1%

Still filing today

39%

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthHuman ServicesReligionPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

FR
FRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC
4× · 2019–2023 · $331k · revenue +70%
HA
HARDING ACADEMY
3× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +27%
AY
Able Youth Inc
6× · 2019–2024 · $30k · revenue +36%

Funded once

TC
THE CHARLIE DANIELS JOURNEY HOME PROJECT
one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue -1%
FF
Flanders Fields Ltd Flanders Fields
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -26%
AT
AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -34%

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.

Miles for Miles Foundation

The organization supports local non-profits that enhance the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Health

Chase the Victory Corporation

Our mission is to strengthen the support of families grieving the loss of a child, fighting childhood cancer, and inspire hope and kindness.

Human Services

Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273)

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…

Human Services

Easter Seals Tennessee Inc

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.

Health

One Family Memphis

Human Services

Who U With Ministries

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…

Religion

Tennessee Titans Foundation

Philanthropy

Tincup Charity Group Inc

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…

Philanthropy

Wounded Spirits Ministries

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…

Recreation & Sports

Operation Andrew Group Inc

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…

Religion

My Fathers House Nashville

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.

Housing & Shelter

Rahab House

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…

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition; 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.

04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 40 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/22

Grantees still filing

11/22

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$386,150Other$399,900Religion$54,000Human Services$53,750Health$38,500Philanthropy$35,000Public Benefit$12,500

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.

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.

The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN29.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mick Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mick Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

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

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home