How much did UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC grant in FY2024?

Human Services$36MHealth$27MHousing & Shelter$14MEducation$8.7MPhilanthropy$7.3MCommunity Improvement$6.6MReligion$5.7MCrime & Legal$4.8MEmployment$2.7MOther$69M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

opns obilives mobilizingmobilizing caringeducational medicalmedical treatmenttreatment optionsoptions concerning

2019

opns obilives mobilizingmobilizing caringskillsliteracydentalempowers

2020

opns obirelationshipgodcultivatecollaborationahrbaptist

2021

opns obicultivaterelationshipgodbaptistjesus christhomeless

2022

cifabusedsheltercourthaven cheathamviolence womenpatients

2023

cifbgcmtclassestransitionrestorationphysicalabused

2024

opns cifwaysessentialrebuild livesagingeconomicwholeness

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 465 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k168 grants · $698k
$10k–50k167 grants · $3.7M
$50k–250k103 grants · $12M
$250k+27 grants · $13M

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$70M

Total assets

Largest grants

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

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $32.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 88% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$178M · 407 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.

407 repeat relationships — 248 still active in FY2024, 159 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

407

Total granted

$178M

$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+40%

Still filing today

83%

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $892k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationHousing & ShelterReligionOther

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

NC
NASHVILLE CARES
8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +16%
CC
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TN INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $10M · revenue +125%
SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $9.7M · revenue +213% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

NC
NEW COVENANT CHRISTIAN CHURCH
one grant, 2020 · $405k
CS
COLUMBIA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $297k · revenue +40%
CM
CAFE MOMENTUM NASHVILLE CORPOR
one 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.

04Your field

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.

Tennessee Charitable Care Network

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.

Health

Tennessee Homeless Solutions

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.

Housing & Shelter

First Tennessee Human Resource Agency

First tennessee human resource agency is a governmental agency whose primary exepmt purpose is providing human resource programs to the cities and counties of northeast tennessee.

Human Services

The Coalition for Better Health

Improve health conditions, battle chronic, and behavior-related diseases in tennessee.

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Tennessee Valley Coalition to End

Providing services to clients to assist in preventing homelessness, training partner organizations on reporting system and reporting to governments, statistical information.

Human Services

Cumberland Heights Professional

To transform lives, giving hope and healing to those affected by alcohol or drug addiction.

Unclassified

Chattanooga Regional Homeless

To lead, coordinate, and strengthen efforts to reduce & end homelessness in southeast, tn.

Community Improvement

Legal Aid of East Tennessee

Legal representation, counseling and other civil legal services for the indigent of tennessee

—

Upper East Tennessee Human

To provide education, direction, and support to individuals, families, and organizations in order to strengthen and stabilize the community through collaborative efforts of agency programs and cooperative partnerships.

Community Improvement

Tn Afl-Cio Labor Council

Labor organization

—

The Caring Place

The organization is an ecumenical, christian non-profit organization dedicated to addressing the basic physical, spiritual, and social needs of the disadvantaged in bradley county, tennessee.

Human Services

United Way of Cleveland County Inc

The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.

Philanthropy

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 Ruth & Norman Rales Jewish Family. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%12/521

the rest of the field

12%

2,557/21,023

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.

05the grantee network

435 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

179

Early backer (in before they grew)

416/435

Grantees still filing

332/435

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$81,765,617Human Services$35,545,256Health$27,496,226Housing & Shelter$13,866,347Education$8,734,612Philanthropy$7,261,830Community Improvement$6,564,677

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.

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.

Memorial Foundation IncTN233.1× affinity140 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Memorial Foundation Inc · The Healing Trust · The Frist Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist · The Community Foundation of Middle · Joe C Davis Foundation · United Way of Williamson County · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn · Boulevard Bolt Inc · The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc

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 organisation 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE HELP CENTER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~9 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 472594358 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE HELP CENTER, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 94% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc?

Find your warmest path to United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

435 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc?

More from the funding graph

UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

435 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc?

More from the funding graph