Tennessee · Nonprofit
FIRST BAPTIST CARES INC
FIRST BAPTIST CARES INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $251,957 to it, the largest being THE WEST END HOME FOUNDATION ($129,457). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FIRST BAPTIST CARES INC's revenue fell 41% between 2022 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,584 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundationshared funderslocal
- Golden Harvest Food Bank Incportfolio match
- Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundationshared funderslocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of FIRST BAPTIST CARES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $28k → $17k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FIRST BAPTIST CARES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FIRST BAPTIST CARES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
35% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FIRST BAPTIST CARES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 54% · 2021 60% · 2022 81% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of FIRST BAPTIST CARES INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundationshared funderslocalTN · backs 82 organizations that share your funders · funds 69 organizations near you
- Golden Harvest Food Bank Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundationshared funderslocalDE · backs 71 organizations that share your funders · funds 89 organizations near you
- Second Harvest of South Georgia Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mississippi Food Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Farm Share Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chattanooga Area Food Bank Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Perception Funding Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Athens Federal Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Atlanta Community Food Bank Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like FIRST BAPTIST CARES INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
20% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIRST BAPTIST CARES INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FIRST BAPTIST CARES INC?
- FIRST BAPTIST CARES INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $251,957 to it, the largest being THE WEST END HOME FOUNDATION ($129,457). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRST BAPTIST CARES INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $251,957 in grants to FIRST BAPTIST CARES INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST BAPTIST CARES INC?
- THE WEST END HOME FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $129,457 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST BAPTIST CARES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 5funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing