· Public charity
United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc
United way of greater nashville unites the community and mobilizes resources so that every child, individual, and family thrives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 466 grants below total $29,008,101 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $31,867,137 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,859,036 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 $10k169 grants · $703k
- $10k–50k167 grants · $3.7M
- $50k–250k103 grants · $12M
- $250k+27 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER | $1,633,681 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TENNESSE | $1,175,999 |
| ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY CENTER | $864,839 |
| NASHVILLE CARES | $827,802 |
| TENNESSEE-WESTERN KENTUCKY UMC | $544,610 |
| STARS | $465,963 |
| EIGHTEENTH AVENUE FAMILY ENRICHMENT CENTER | $449,049 |
| UW SOUTH CENTRAL TN | $423,892 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MIDDLEEAST TN | $410,439 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TENNESSE | $403,750 |
| WORKFORCE ESSENTIALS INC | $374,677 |
| POSITIVELY LIVING KNOXVILLE | $373,387 |
| MCNEILLY CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $372,500 |
| PIVOT TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL LLC | $366,214 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $360,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $32.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
403 repeat relationships — 245 still active in FY2024, 158 since wound down; 35 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $892k 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
- NCNASHVILLE CARES8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +136%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TENNESSEE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $10M · revenue +34%
NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $9.7M · revenue +213% · 39% of their budget
Funded once
- NCNEW COVENANT CHRISTIAN CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $405k
- CSCOLUMBIA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $297k · revenue -52%
- PKPATHWAYS KITCHENone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -50%
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.
Mental health cooperative inc. (mhc) provides integrated health services that include behavioral health care, primary health care, addiction services, and community-based care management. mhc also provides emergency psychiatric services…
To reduce homelessness and improve family stability by increasing housing resources, administration of hud-mckinney vento funds, and support services through collaborative efforts with partner organizations, when available.
Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…
Providing services to clients to assist in preventing homelessness, training partner organizations on reporting system and reporting to governments, statistical information.
To empower individuals living with disabilities and challenges to gain independence
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
The mission of tccn is to support, educate, and represent non-profit organizations that provide charitable healthcare services to low-income, uninsured, and underserved tennesseans. tccn envisions a strong, compassionate healthcare safety…
Provide behavioral health services to clients located in middle and east tennessee
To advocate for people who are homless or near homeless, strategically planning for housing and services in the community, maximizing resources and collaboarating with community partners to implement housing and services within the…
First tennessee human resource agency is a governmental agency whose primary exempt purpose is providing human resource programs to the cities and counties of northeast tennessee.
To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc and the most unlike its peers is Geodis Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
436 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. 436 of the 523 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NASHVILLE CARES ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds POSITIVELY LIVING ↗
- Who funds STARS NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds THE HELP CENTER ↗
- Who funds OASIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE CONFLICT RESOLUTION CTR ↗
- Who funds MCNEILLY CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT RETURN INC ↗
- Who funds CONEXION AMERICAS ↗
- Who funds ROOFTOP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds MID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SALVATION ARMY MAGNESS TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds EIGHTEENTH AVE FAMILY ENRICHMENT CE ↗
- Who funds Columbia Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) ↗
- Who funds West Tennessee Legal Services INC ↗
- Who funds NEEDLINK NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds Matthew Walker Comprehensive Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
- Who funds STREET WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONS MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds AFFORDABLE HOUSING RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE ↗
- Who funds THE KING'S DAUGHTERS DAY HOME ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MIDDLE & EAST TENNESSE INC ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE STATION ↗
- Who funds THE CONTRIBUTOR INC ↗
- Who funds MONROE HARDING INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
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: Memorial Foundation Inc · The Frist Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Carolyn Smith Foundation · United Way of Williamson County · The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn
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 Middle Tennessee Inc 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.
- Heart of Florida United Way Inc — 0% of income from government
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.