· Public charity
United Way of Wilson County & the Upper Cumberland
The United Way of Wilson County exists to enhance the quality of life through a combined effort of individuals and organizations pulling together to address health and human service needs in Wilson County and the Upper Cumberland.
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 18 grants below total $206,158 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $282,560 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $76,402 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 $10k6 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $154k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Wilson County Community Help Center | $18,000 |
| Mid Cumberland HRA | $17,000 |
| STARS Nashville | $16,667 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank | $15,131 |
| Josephs Store House | $15,000 |
| Reststop Ministries | $11,251 |
| Lebanon Senior Citizens Center | $11,000 |
| United Way of Greater Nashville | $10,091 |
| Easterseals TN | $10,000 |
| Wilson County CASA | $10,000 |
| Cedarcroft Home Inc | $10,000 |
| The Salvation Army of Wilson County | $10,000 |
| Helping Hands of Putnam County TN | $9,950 |
| Wilson County Civic League | $9,637 |
| Cookeville Rescue Mission | $9,204 |
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, $581k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 -5% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 9 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 FY2025, 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
- SNSTARS NASHVILLE9× · 2017–2025 · $214k · revenue +272%
- MHMID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY9× · 2017–2025 · $212k · revenue +11%
- WCWILSON COUNTY COMMUNITY HELP CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $7k
- CRCOOKEVILLE REGIONAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue -5%
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.
Effective prosecution of child abuses, providing therapy and education for the abused, and providing a safe haven for the abused.
Homesafe provides safe, temorary shelter, and support services for indivduals who have suffered or have been threatened with emotional or physical abuse.
Advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.
Wilsonville community sharing is a community based organization which exists to serve those in need in the local community by directing them to the appropriate agencies and through the provision of assistance to needy families in the form…
The United Way of Wilson County exists to enhance the quality of life through a combined effort of individuals and organizations pulling together to address health and human service needs in Wilson County and the Upper Cumberland.
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.
To provide quality, affordable counseling to families and individuals.
Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation
Interview facility for child abuse victims.
Our mission is to recruit and train deverse volunteers to act as advocates for the best interests of children in mcminn, meigs and rhea counties.
The organization advocates for abused or neglected children. they make recommendations to the court on permament living arrangements andcommunicating with the child ensuring that their interests are being met.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wilson County Community Help Center and the most unlike its peers is Cedarcroft Home Inc. 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 38 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 29 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 STARS NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds MID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds WILSON COUNTY COMMUNITY HELP CENTER ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT INC ↗
- Who funds WILSON COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds LOVE ONE ANOTHER EMBASSY INC ↗
- Who funds Lebanon Senior Citizens Center ↗
- Who funds WILSON COUNTY CIVIC LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds REST STOP MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WILSON COUNTY BUSINESS AND EDUCATION COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds MT JULIET HELP CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHARIS HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CEDARCROFT HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Helping Hands of Putnam County ↗
- Who funds MT JULIET WEST WILSON COUNTY SENIOR ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER ME CENTER A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds EXCHANGE CLUB HOLLAND J STEPHENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COOKEVILLE REGIONAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION 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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Evelyn S & Jim Horne Hankins Fnd · Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tn Inc · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Nashville Predators Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Kharis Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organization United Way of Wilson County & the Upper Cumberland 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.