· Public charity
United Way of Sumner County
To mobilize the caring power of our community to improve the quality of life in sumner county as a place to grow up, raise a family, work, achieve dreams, and grow older.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 23 grants below total $458,197 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $488,076 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $29,879 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $324k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GALLATIN DAY CARE CENTER INC | $68,212 |
| GALLATIN SHALOM ZONE | $42,335 |
| STARS STUDENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | $36,820 |
| MCHRA | $30,585 |
| SUMNER COUNTY CASA | $28,785 |
| GALLATIN CARES | $27,115 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SUMNER CTY | $25,775 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY | $24,880 |
| COMMUNITY CHILD CARE SERVICES | $21,520 |
| CUMBERLAND CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER | $19,430 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH AT SALVUS CENTE | $17,182 |
| COMMUNITY LIFE BRIDGE | $13,300 |
| ASHLEY'S PLACE (SUMNER CHILD ADVOCA | $13,252 |
| ELEVATE 50 HENDERSONVILLE | $12,360 |
| WESTMORELAND SENIOR CENTER | $10,300 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- GDGALLATIN DAY CARE CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $487k · revenue +3%
- SNSTARS NASHVILLE9× · 2017–2025 · $367k · revenue +272%
- MHMID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY9× · 2017–2025 · $355k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- HCHENDERSONVILLE CHAMBER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $80k · revenue 0%
- HCHENDERSONVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCEone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -38%
- UPUNLIMITED POTENTIAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +94%
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
To provide quality, affordable counseling to families and individuals.
The Anderson County Community Action Commission provides food, clothing, household foods, and essential assistance to low-income residents of Anderson County, Tennessee. The organization operates a community food pantry, clothing closet,…
Provide services & meals to the elderly.
Provides support and services to individuals from 5 years to seniors with developmental disabilities and/or phsyical limitations.
Effective prosecution of child abuses, providing therapy and education for the abused, and providing a safe haven for the abused.
It is our mission to nuture an environment where individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities are valued, provided opportunities, and treated with god's love and compassion.
Interview facility for child abuse victims.
To meet the basic physical, spiritual, and social need of people in our area using the ministry of Jesus as a model.
Provides no cost guidance for the low income to available programs.
Advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Resource Center and the most unlike its peers is Hands of Hope. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 42 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 GALLATIN DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STARS NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds MID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CHILD CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SUMNER COUNTY CASA INC ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Portland Cares ↗
- Who funds GALLATIN SHALOM ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE PLACE MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SALVUS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLEYS PLACE-SUMNER CHILD ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds GALLATIN CARES ↗
- Who funds HENDERSONVILLE SAMARITAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE50 HENDERSONVILLE ↗
- Who funds HABILITATION AND TRAINING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN ARE PEOPLE RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HENDERSONVILLE CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SUMNER COUN ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds NURSES FOR NEWBORNS ↗
- Who funds HOMESAFE OF SUMNER WILSON AND ROBERTSON COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds GALLATIN SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Literacy Council of Sumner County ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND THE CUMBERLANDS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LIFE BRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY COURT OF SUMNER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
- Who funds HENDERSONVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds UNLIMITED POTENTIAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HANDS OF HOPE ↗
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 · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Carolyn Smith Foundation · Jc Garrett III Family Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · The Rosendin Foundation · The Frist Foundation · The Goodall Family Foundation · Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tn Inc · Bruce Family 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 Sumner 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.