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United Cerebral Palsy of Middle Tennessee Inc

Each year, united cerebral palsy of middle tennessee serves tennessee with programs targeted at our mission to advance the independence and full citizenship of people with disabilities.

$915k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$142kHousing & Shelter$98kHuman Services$86kCommunity Improvement$40kEducation$14kEmployment$14kRecreation & Sports$8kReligion$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $99,631, the rows itemized in this filing. The $914,692 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $815,061 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–50k5 grants · $84k
$14,497
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTMINSTER HOME CONNECTION$20,191
CHURCH OF CHRIST AT TRENTON$18,920
NEIGHBORHOOD HELPERS$18,920
OCOEE OUTREACH$14,497
BLOUNT COUNTY OFFICE ON AGING$11,938
SCOTT APPALACHIAN INDUSTRIES$7,665
TUCKER'S HOUSE$7,500
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, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%BLOUNT COUNTY OFFICE ON AGING: $12k → 10%TUCKER'S HOUSE: $18k → 10%BLOUNT COUNTY OFFICE ON AGING: $12k → 10%THE ARC OF TN: $24k → 14%THE ARC OF TN: $13k → 14%THE ARC OF TN: $12k → 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$356k · 10 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$356k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+236%

Still filing today

70%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TA
    The Arc of Tennessee Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $49k · revenue +102%
  • WH
    WESTMINSTER HOME CONNECTION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +127%
  • TH
    TUCKER'S HOUSE
    2× · 2019–2025 · $26k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • HA
    HOME AND BATH SOLUTIONS
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • SE
    SOMETHING ELSE SOLUTIONS
    one grant, 2018 · $12k
  • MS
    MORGAN SCOTT PROJECT FOR COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -37%
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
Michael Dunn Center

To empower individuals living with disabilities and challenges to gain independence

Human Services
3
East Tennessee Technology Access Center Inc

The mission of east tennessee technology access center is to connect people with disabilities in east tennessee to the adaptive technology tools and services they need to live with maximum independence and dignity.

—
4
The Arc of Tuscaloosa

The mission of the Arc of Tuscaloosa County is to provide activities to persons residing in Tuscaloosa County who have developmental or intellectual disabilities, which enable the individual to maintain previously acquired skills/behaviors…

Human Services
5
Empower Tennessee

To promote independence for persons with disabilities and provide guidance, education, and advocacy.

Human Services
6
Buckeye Community Services Inc

To provide residential, support, and habilitation home and home care services for individulas with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Human Services
7
Transformations Autism Treatment Center

It is the organization's mission to provide every family and individual with autism spectrum disorders a place that they can receive the help they need to reach every goal in a safe, loving environment.

—
8
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
9
The Arc of South Talladega County

Support services for the mentally challenged of south talladega county in alabama.

Human Services
10
Pacesetters Inc

To empower and support people to be valued members of society.

Human Services
11
Mur-Ci Homes Inc

To improve the quality of life for individuals with severe/profound disabilities by assisting them through high-quality 24 hour, 7 days a week continuous care.

Human Services
12
Southeastern Ohio Center for Independent Living

Provide services to people with disabilities. such services include assistance with housing, employment, transportation and recreational issues.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chattanooga Autism Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Arc of Tennessee Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEIGHBORHOOD HELPERS: $37,840 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD HELPERSCHURCH OF CHRIST AT TRENTON CROSSING INC: $25,846 · OtherCHURCH OF CHRIST AT TRENTON CROSSING…HOME AND BATH SOLUTIONS: $20,000 · OtherHOME AND BATH SOLUTIONSRIVER OAKS LEARNING CENTER: $14,190 · OtherRIVER OAKS LEARNING CENTERSOMETHING ELSE SOLUTIONS: $12,000 · OtherSOMETHING ELSE SOLUTIONSMORGAN SCOTT PROJECT FOR COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN: $10,184 · OtherMORGAN SCOTT PROJECT FOR COOPERATIVE…POTTERS ACE HOME CENTER: $6,000 · OtherHOMELIFT OF NASHVILLE INC: $5,980 · OtherCOBB HILL HOMES: $5,112 · OtherThe Arc of Tennessee Inc: $49,141 · Human ServicesThe Arc of Tennessee IncTUCKER'S HOUSE: $25,500 · Human ServicesTUCKER'S HOUSEBLOUNT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $23,876 · Human ServicesBLOUNT COUNTY COMMUNITY AC…OCOEE OUTREACH INC: $67,728 · Housing & ShelterOCOEE OUTREACH INCSPECIAL KIDS INC: $49,944 · HealthSPECIAL KIDS I…CHATTANOOGA AUTISM CENTER INC: $5,371 · HealthCHATTANOOGA AU…WESTMINSTER HOME CONNECTION: $40,382 · Community ImprovementWESTMINSTE…SCOTT APPALACHIAN INDUSTRIES INC: $21,577 · Recreation & Sports
Other$137,152Human Services$98,517Housing & Shelter$67,728Health$55,315Community Improvement$40,382Recreation & Sports$21,577

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOCOEE OUTREACH INC: $67,728 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetSPECIAL KIDS INC: $49,944 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Arc of Tennessee Inc: $49,141 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetWESTMINSTER HOME CONNECTION: $40,382 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTUCKER'S HOUSE: $25,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetBLOUNT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $23,876 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSCOTT APPALACHIAN INDUSTRIES INC: $21,577 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMORGAN SCOTT PROJECT FOR COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN: $10,184 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCHATTANOOGA AUTISM CENTER INC: $5,371 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

  • Who funds OCOEE OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Arc of Tennessee Inc ↗
  • Who funds WESTMINSTER HOME CONNECTION ↗
  • Who funds TUCKER'S HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds BLOUNT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
  • Who funds SCOTT APPALACHIAN INDUSTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds MORGAN SCOTT PROJECT FOR COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN ↗
  • Who funds CHATTANOOGA AUTISM CENTER INC ↗

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.

Tennessee Disability CoalitionTN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tennessee Disability Coalition · Nashville Predators Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee 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 United Cerebral Palsy of Middle Tennessee Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Cerebral Palsy of Middle Tennessee Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 17 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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