How do I find funders for a human services nonprofit in Tennessee?

Start with the funders already giving to human services in Tennessee, currently Youth Villages Foundation Inc, Blue Meridian Partners Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. Then look at who funds the human services organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Tennessee from out of state.

How much grant money goes to human services in Tennessee?

$1.7B reached 1,200 human services organizations in Tennessee, from 3,762 funders. 53% came from funders also based in Tennessee.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Tennessee · Human services

Who funds human services in Tennessee

$1.7B reached 1,200 human services organizations in Tennessee, from 3,762 funders, with no single one dominating.

$1.7B

granted

1,200

organizations

53%

from in-state

The short version

3,762 funders gave $1.7B to 1,200 human services organizations in Tennessee across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
53% of that came from funders also based in Tennessee; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of human services in Tennessee is Youth Villages Foundation Inc, at $287M.
The human services organization drawing the most is Youth Villages Inc, at $553M.

Largest funders of human services in Tennessee

The funders giving the most to human services organizations in Tennessee, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Youth Villages Foundation Inc$287M 2Blue Meridian Partners Inc$117M 3Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$96M 4Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc$85M 5National Philanthropic Trust$54M 6United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc$52M 7Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc$39M 8The Blackbaud Giving Fund$37M 9The Day Foundation$30M 10Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc$30M

Human services organizations in Tennessee that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

1,190 other human services organizations$744M

Youth Villages Inc$553M Gary Sinise Foundation$86M Porter-Leath$55M

How to find human services funders in Tennessee

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Start with the funders already active in Tennessee
The funders giving the most to human services in Tennessee are Youth Villages Foundation Inc, Blue Meridian Partners Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. A funder already writing human services checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the human services organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
47% of human services money in Tennessee comes from funders elsewhere, so national human services funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Tennessee.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a human services nonprofit in Tennessee?: Start with the funders already giving to human services in Tennessee, currently Youth Villages Foundation Inc, Blue Meridian Partners Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. Then look at who funds the human services organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Tennessee from out of state.
Who is the largest human services funder in Tennessee?: Youth Villages Foundation Inc gives the most to human services organizations in Tennessee, $287M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to human services in Tennessee?: $1.7B reached 1,200 human services organizations in Tennessee, from 3,762 funders. 53% came from funders also based in Tennessee.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.