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Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273)

Our mission: a worldwide charitable fellowship united by a common loyalty to jesus christ for the purpose of helping people grow in spirit, mind and body. The ymca of middle tennessee is the region's leading nonprofit dedicated to strengthening community by nurturing the potential of children and teens, improving health and well-being…

$3.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Itemized grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
30%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$771k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$106,563
Largest grant, FY2025
$160,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 23
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$180M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $178k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Human ServicesReligionYouth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$771k11%
FY202410$638k30%
FY20238$489k25%
FY20227$945k43%
FY202122$1.3M5%
FY202022$1.7M0%
FY201923$1.3M30%
FY201816$854k13%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$5.1MYouth Development$1.6MPublic Benefit$384kReligion$356kEducation$318kInternational$253kArts & Culture$85kCommunity Improvement$45kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 36 grantees
All grantees of Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Senior Citizens Inc$1,489,02695%
Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Chattanooga$830,23191%
YMCA of Memphis & the Mid-South$796,75190%
Young Men's Christian Association of East Tennessee Inc$792,09891%
YMCA Foundation of Middle Tennessee$500,000144%
Backfield in Motion$421,290511%
Moves and Grooves Inc$403,662528%
Metro Nashville Parks and Recreatio$384,1525n/a
Martha O'Bryan Center Inc$369,61131%
Dynamic Young Minorities of Nashville D-Y-M-O-N in the Rough$270,646524%
In Full Motion Inc$254,805510%
Nations Ministry Center$249,339313%
Global Outreach Developments International$231,50632%
Why We Can T Wait$205,727336%
Athens-McMinn Family Young Men's Christian Association$194,87624%
Sparta-White County Family YMCA$191,38128%
Beech Creek Ministries Inc$185,454585%
Conexion Americas$182,89832%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee$159,93251%
National Council of YMCAs of the USA$133,10080%
Bethlehem Centers of Nashville$98,22455%
Aspiring Youth Enrichment Services$96,8074n/a
Nashville International Center for Empowerment$84,88832%
From the Heart International Education Foundation$54,612313%
Project Transformation Tennessee Inc$41,98832%
YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly Inc$39,10040%
Meharry Medical College$38,85020%
Putnam County Family YMCA$32,4711n/a
AMERICAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY dba AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE$30,00010%
Church on the Rock of Nashville$29,7001n/a
Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce$28,33630%
413 Strong Inc$18,79815%
Urban League of Middle Tennessee$16,88213%
Young Men's Christian Association of Columbia-Willamette$12,50010%
Greater Kingsport Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc$10,00010%
Maui Family Young Men's Christian Association$6,50010%

Where it is load-bearing

Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSenior Citizens Inc: $1,489,026 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Chattanooga: $830,231 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetYMCA of Memphis & the Mid-South: $796,751 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of East Tennessee Inc: $792,098 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetYMCA Foundation of Middle Tennessee: $500,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetBackfield in Motion: $421,290 over 5y, 11% of budgetMoves and Grooves Inc: $403,662 over 5y, 28% of budgetMartha O'Bryan Center Inc: $369,611 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDynamic Young Minorities of Nashville D-Y-M-O-N in the Rough: $270,646 over 5y, 24% of budgetIn Full Motion Inc: $254,805 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetNations Ministry Center: $249,339 over 3y, 13% of budgetGlobal Outreach Developments International: $231,506 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetWhy We Can T Wait: $205,727 over 3y, 36% of budgetAthens-McMinn Family Young Men's Christian Association: $194,876 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetSparta-White County Family YMCA: $191,381 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetBeech Creek Ministries Inc: $185,454 over 5y, 85% of budgetConexion Americas: $182,898 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee: $159,932 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetNational Council of YMCAs of the USA: $133,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBethlehem Centers of Nashville: $98,224 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetNashville International Center for Empowerment: $84,888 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetFrom the Heart International Education Foundation: $54,612 over 3y, 13% of budgetProject Transformation Tennessee Inc: $41,988 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetYMCA Blue Ridge Assembly Inc: $39,100 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMeharry Medical College: $38,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY dba AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNashville Area Chamber of Commerce: $28,336 over 3y, 0.1% of budget413 Strong Inc: $18,798 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetUrban League of Middle Tennessee: $16,882 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Columbia-Willamette: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Kingsport Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaui Family Young Men's Christian Association: $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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 Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN38.4× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc · The Frist Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · National Council of YMCAs of the USA · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Joe C Davis Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc

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.

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About Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273)

How much does Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) give?
Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) reported 9 itemized grants totaling $770,886, out of $3,287,472 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (62%), Youth Development (19%), Public Benefit (5%).
Who are Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273)'s largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Senior Citizens Inc ($1.5M), Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Chattanooga ($830k), YMCA of Memphis & the Mid-South ($797k).
Does Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273)?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Hca Healthcare Foundation, Memorial Foundation Inc.
Where is Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) based?
Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) is based in TN.

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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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