· Public charity
United Way of Franklin County
United way of franklin co.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $115,068 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $139,231 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $24,163 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $46k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FR CO GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRY | $12,083 |
| RECOVERY SUPPORTPERSONAL GROWTH AL | $12,073 |
| HORSE PLAY | $11,867 |
| CASA WORKS | $10,051 |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $8,519 |
| HAVEN OF HOPE INC | $8,369 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $7,695 |
| RAIN UNLIMITED | $7,019 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $6,945 |
| GRACE CENTER OF HOPE | $6,535 |
| ACCESS HOPE | $6,455 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MIDDLE TN | $6,289 |
| FRANKLIN CO SENIOR CITIZENS | $5,693 |
| CAMPORA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER | $5,475 |
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 (FY20–24, $139k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $57k · revenue +12%
- HPHORSE PLAY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +139%
- CWCASA WORKS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- LCLIFE CHOICES PREGNANCY & FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +77%
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.
Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling
Interview facility for child abuse victims.
To provide support to low income families in the form of food and clothing.
To support, develop, expand, and unite local casa programs in recruiting and training volunteers to advocate for tennessees children who have been abused and neglected.
Effective prosecution of child abuses, providing therapy and education for the abused, and providing a safe haven for the abused.
Advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.
To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.
To serve the needy people in the franklin county community area
Child respite and child abuse prevention.
To aid victims of domestic violence
To meet the basic physical, spiritual, and social need of people in our area using the ministry of Jesus as a model.
Our mission is to affirm the value of life by providing a network of care. We strive to empower mothers and fathers experiencing planned and unplanned pregnancies with healthy options through medical services, education, mentoring and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Life Tn and the most unlike its peers is Rain Unlimited Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 18 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 GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HORSE PLAY INC ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY SUPPORT AND PERSONAL GROWTH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CASA WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAVEN OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds Rain Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTER OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ALMOST HOME TRANSITIONAL HOUSING ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND THE CUMBERLANDS ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE TN ↗
- Who funds FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE CHOICES PREGNANCY & FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
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 · United Way of South Central Tennessee · 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 United Way of Franklin County 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.