Tennessee Chapter of Children's Advocacy
Nashville, TN · EIN 62-1679668. Reported 64 grants totalling $5,774,519 to 49 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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 Tennessee Chapter of Children's Advocacy, by its IRS classification it is an alliance or advocacy organization in human services (NTEE P013).
- How spread out its giving is. 49 distinct organizations, with 12% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 100% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $54,513. Half of what it reported fell between $12,700 and $129,487; the smallest was $7,000 and the largest $682,995. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exchange Club-Carl Perkins Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse | Jackson, TN | $682,995 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Memphis Child Advocacy Center | Memphis, TN | $612,082 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Childhelp Inc | Scottsdale, AZ | $330,290 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Nashville Childrens Alliance Inc | Nashville, TN | $316,112 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Childrens Advocacy Center of Hamilton County Inc | Chattanooga, TN | $220,422 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Upper Cumberland Child Advocacy Center Inc | Cookeville, TN | $219,820 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Health Opportunity Protection and Encouragement Center Inc | Athens, TN | $214,721 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Child Advocacy Center of Rutherford County Inc | Murfreesboro, TN | $199,739 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Childrens Advocacy Center of First Judicial District | Johnson City, TN | $198,468 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Child Advocacy Center of the Third Judical District | Mosheim, TN | $192,104 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Childrens Advocacy Center of Sullivan County Inc | Blountville, TN | $180,866 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Williamson County Child Advocacy Center Task Force | Franklin, TN | $178,289 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Safe Harbor Child Advocacy Center Inc | Sevierville, TN | $177,011 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Montgomery County Cac | Clarksville, TN | $175,259 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fifteenth Judicial District Child Advocacy Center | Lebanon, TN | $165,576 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Kids Place a Child Advocacy Center | Lawrenceburg, TN | $146,587 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Blount County Childrens Advocacy Center Inc | Maryville, TN | $135,452 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Child Advocacy Center for the Twentythird Judical District Inc | Charlotte, TN | $129,487 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Child Advocacy Center of the Ninth Judicial Dist of Tennessee Inc | Lenoir City, TN | $126,129 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ashleys Place | Gallatin, TN | $123,998 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Juniors House Inc | Fayetteville, TN | $122,099 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Childrens Center of the Cumberlands | Oneida, TN | $116,766 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Child Advocacy Center of Andersoncounty Tennessee Inc | Clinton, TN | $116,391 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Campbell County Childrens Center | La Follette, TN | $109,426 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Coffee County Childrens Advocacy Center | Manchester, TN | $109,252 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Robertson County Child Advocacy Center Inc | Springfield, TN | $101,726 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| 12TH Judicial District Cac | Jasper, TN | $93,219 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Childrens Advocacy Center Thirty First Judicial District | Mcminnville, TN | $86,018 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cac of Hamilton Co | $12,700 | 1 | 1 | 2020 | |
| Cac of Rutherford County Inc | $12,700 | 1 | 1 | 2020 | |
| The Cac of Sullivan County | $12,700 | 1 | 1 | 2020 | |
| The Hope Center - Athens | $12,700 | 1 | 1 | 2020 | |
| The Hope Center Inc - Clevelan | $12,700 | 1 | 1 | 2020 | |
| Safe Harbor Cac Inc | $12,646 | 1 | 1 | 2020 | |
| Cac for 23RD Judicial District | $9,850 | 1 | 1 | 2020 | |
| Coffee County Cac | $9,850 | 1 | 1 | 2020 | |
| Nashville Childrens Alliance | $9,850 | 1 | 1 | 2020 | |
| Tipton County Cac | $9,763 | 1 | 1 | 2020 | |
| National Childrens Advocacy Center | $8,392 | 1 | 1 | 2020 | |
| Memphis Cac | $7,364 | 1 | 1 | 2020 | |
| Cac for the 31ST Judicial District | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 | |
| Cac of Anderson Co Tn | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 | |
| Cac of the 1ST Judicial District | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 | |
| Carroll County Cac | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 | |
| Henderson County Cac | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 | |
| Kids First Cac of the 9TH District | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 | |
| Madison County Cac | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 | |
| New Hope Blout Co Cac | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 | |
| Weakley County Cac | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
15 of 49 (31%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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.
- Exchange Club-Carl Perkins Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse
OFFSET FUNDING GAP CAUSED BY CUTS TO MEMBER CAC'S VOCA GRANTS AND PROGRAM ENHANCEMENT - Memphis Cac
OFFSET FUNDING GAP CAUSED BY CUTS TO MEMBER CAC'S VOCA GRANTS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 26 of 49 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 21 | $194,215 | $8,392 |
| 2022 | 15 | $907,663 | $50,672 |
| 2023 | 28 | $4,672,641 | $130,676 |
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
94% 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 the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
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 $54,513 -- 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 Tennessee Chapter of Children's Advocacy's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 28 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 51 Century Boulevard 307, Nashville, TN, 37214.
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