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United Way of Franklin County

United way of franklin co.

$139k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$160kRecreation & Sports$101kCrime & Legal$101kFood & Nutrition$57kPublic Safety & Disaster$38kHealth$31kYouth Development$26kHousing & Shelter$15k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $115,068, the rows itemized in this filing. The $139,231 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $24,163 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $46k
$7,695
Median grant
2
States reached
$375k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 13%HORSE PLAY: $13k → 17%COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $9k → 13%HORSE PLAY: $12k → 17%COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $8k → 13%HORSE PLAY: $10k → 17%COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $7k → 13%HORSE PLAY: $10k → 17%COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $7k → 13%HORSE PLAY: $10k → 17%FRANKLIN CO SENIOR CITIZENS: $7k → 13%LIFE CHOICES PREGNANCY CENTER: $6k → 13%NEW LIFE TN: $6k → 13%NEW LIFE TN: $6k → 13%FRANKLIN CO SENIOR CITIZENS: $6k → 13%FRANKLIN COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $5k → 13%FRANKLIN CO SENIOR CITIZENS: $5k → 13%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$522k · 17 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
1

Total granted

$522k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+77%

Still filing today

82%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterRecreation & 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

  • GS
    GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $57k · revenue +12%
  • HP
    HORSE PLAY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +139%
  • CW
    CASA WORKS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • LC
    LIFE CHOICES PREGNANCY & FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +77%
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
Greater Chattanooga Christian Services Inc

Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling

Human Services
2
Talladega County Child Advocacy Center Inc

Interview facility for child abuse victims.

Human Services
3
Family Care Center Inc

To provide support to low income families in the form of food and clothing.

Human Services
4
Tennessee Court Appointed Special Advocate Assoc

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.

Civil Rights
5
Robertson County Child Advocacy Cen

Effective prosecution of child abuses, providing therapy and education for the abused, and providing a safe haven for the abused.

Crime & Legal
6
Casa of Northeast Tennessee

Advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.

Crime & Legal
7
The Child Advocacy Center of Anderson Co Tn

To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.

Human Services
8
Franklin Area Survival Center Inc

To serve the needy people in the franklin county community area

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9
Family Support Center of the Uintah Basin Inc

Child respite and child abuse prevention.

—
10
Fannin County Family Crisis Center

To aid victims of domestic violence

Human Services
11
The Samaritan Center Inc

To meet the basic physical, spiritual, and social need of people in our area using the ministry of Jesus as a model.

Religion
12
Pregnancy Centers of Middle Tennessee Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Life Tn; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 18 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HORSE PLAY INC: $55,177 · Human ServicesHORSE PLAY INCCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $41,424 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERHAVEN OF HOPE INC: $38,877 · Human ServicesHAVEN OF HOPE INCFRANKLIN COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $23,230 · Human ServicesFRANKLIN COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INCNEW LIFE TN: $12,442 · Human ServicesNEW LIFE TNLIFE CHOICES PREGNANCY & FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $6,311 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INC: $56,801 · OtherGOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES OF F…AMERICAN RED CROSS: $37,820 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSFRANKLIN COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $18,859 · OtherFRANKLIN COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRIC…THE SALVATION ARMY: $17,715 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND THE CUMBERLANDS: $12,838 · OtherLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MIDDLE TE…FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $34,486 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHR…Rain Unlimited Inc: $25,794 · Youth DevelopmentRain Unlimited In…GRACE CENTER OF HOPE INC: $19,433 · Youth DevelopmentGRACE CENTER OF H…RECOVERY SUPPORT AND PERSONAL GROWTH ALLIANCE INC: $55,123 · HealthRECOVERY SU…CASA WORKS INC: $45,234 · Crime & LegalCASA WORK…ALMOST HOME TRANSITIONAL HOUSING: $14,705 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY COUNSELING CENTER OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $11,709 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$177,461Other$144,033Youth Development$79,713Health$55,123Crime & Legal$45,234Housing & Shelter$14,705Recreation & Sports$11,709

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INC: $56,801 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetHORSE PLAY INC: $55,177 over 5y, 16% of budgetRECOVERY SUPPORT AND PERSONAL GROWTH ALLIANCE INC: $55,123 over 5y, 9.7% of budgetCASA WORKS INC: $45,234 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $41,424 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHAVEN OF HOPE INC: $38,877 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $34,486 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRain Unlimited Inc: $25,794 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetFRANKLIN COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $23,230 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetGRACE CENTER OF HOPE INC: $19,433 over 3y, 26% of budgetALMOST HOME TRANSITIONAL HOUSING: $14,705 over 2y, 10% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND THE CUMBERLANDS: $12,838 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW LIFE TN: $12,442 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY COUNSELING CENTER OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $11,709 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLIFE CHOICES PREGNANCY & FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $6,311 over 1y, 2.5% 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.

The Community Foundat…United Way of South C…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · United Way of South Central Tennessee · 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 Way of Franklin County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Franklin County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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