Mission Possible
Nashville, TN · EIN 37-1853525. Reported 40 grants totalling $811,000 to 25 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Mission Possible, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A65) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 25 distinct organizations, with 44% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 44% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $6,500 and the largest $130,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nashville Rescue Mission | Nashville, TN | $357,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter | Nashville, TN | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jesus Provisions Ministries | Mount Juliet, TN | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| People Loving Nashville | Nashville, TN | $32,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Community Homeless Outreach Andsupport Inc | Lebanon, TN | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Open Table of Nashville Inc | Nashville, TN | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Shower Up | Spring Hill, TN | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Oasis Center Inc | Nashville, TN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Room in the Inn Inc | Nashville, TN | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Laundry Stop Inc | Franklin, TN | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Village at Glencliff | Nashville, TN | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| West Nashville Dream Center | Nashville, TN | $20,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rise Erwin | Erwin, TN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee Inc | Nashville, TN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| West Carter County Volunteer Fire Department | Milligan, TN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Aloe Family Inc | Nashville, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Journey Home Inc | Murfreesboro, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Monroe Harding Inc | Nashville, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Musically Fed | Scottsdale, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Park Center | Nashville, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Project Return Inc | Nashville, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Way of Humphreys County | Waverly, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hands on Nashville Inc | Nashville, TN | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Operation Bbq Relief | Peculiar, MO | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
10 of 25 (40%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Nashville Rescue Mission
NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION IS A CHRIST-CENTERED COMMUNITY COMMITTED TO HELPING THE HUNGRY, HOMELESS, AND HURTING BY PROVIDING PROGRAMS AND SERVICES THAT FOCUS ON A PERSON'S ENTIRE LIFEPHYSICAL, MENTAL, SPIRITUAL, EMOTIONAL, AND SOCIAL. - Safe Haven Family Shelter
SAFE HAVEN LEADS OUR COMMUNITY'S EFFORTS TO HOUSE, SUPPORT, EMPOWER AND ADVOCATE FOR FAMILIES EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS. - Jesus Provisions Ministries
JESUS PROVISIONS MINISTRIES HAS TWO SUNDAY SERVICES, CURRENTLY SERVING AT THE WAR MEMORIAL NEAR CHURCH STREET IN NASHVILLE AND AT MERCURY COURTS ON MURFREESBORO RD. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SERVE AT OUR SUNDAY MORNING SERVICES, WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU. WE MEET AT THE CARE CENTER EVERY SUNDAY MORNING AT 7:15 AM AND DEPART AT 7:30 AM. SERVICES TYPICALLY LAST TILL 12:30 PM. WE SERVE 250-300 UNHOUSED CONGREGATION MEMBERS AND HAVE PRAISE AND WORSHIP AND THE WORD BROUGHT TO THE STREETS OF NASHVILLE. - Oasis Center
BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS THAT ADVANCE YOUTH WELL-BEING, AMPLIFY YOUTH VOICE, AND INSPIRE ACTION TOWARD A JUST COMMUNITY. - People Loving Nashville
OUR SKILLED STAFF AND TRAINED VOLUNTEERS SEEK TO FORM RELATIONSHIPS THAT BRING A CHRIST-CENTERED, EVIDENCE-BASED PATHWAY TO SUSTAINABLE HOPE, HEALING, AND RESTORATION. WE BEGIN THE PROCESS BY ASSEMBLING MEALS, PREPARING CLOTHING AND SUPPLIES FOR DISTRIBUTION TO HUNDREDS, AND PROVIDE EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO SERVE THE DISENFRANCHISED OF OUR CITY IN PUBLIC SPACES, LOW-INCOME APARTMENT COMPLEXES, HOMELESS CAMPS, AND MORE, EVERY WEEKDAY. - Open Table of Nashville Inc
OPEN TABLE NASHVILLE IS COMMITTED TO RELATIONAL OUTREACH WHICH INVOLVES JOURNEYING WITH UN-HOUSED AND PRECARIOUSLY HOUSED INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES, BEING A CONSISTENT PRESENCE IN THE HOMELESS COMMUNITY, ADVOCATING WITH THE MARGINALIZED, AND CREATIVELY NETWORKING AVAILABLE RESOURCES.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 18 of 25 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 | $107,500 | $53,750 |
| 2022 | 12 | $205,000 | $15,000 |
| 2023 | 8 | $197,000 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 18 | $301,500 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
97% of its giving went to organizations in Tennessee. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Tennessee.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Mission Possible's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 1120 4TH Ave S, Nashville, TN, 37210.
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