Welcome to GivingMatters.com, a powerful online resource created to inform, empower, and enrich charitable giving in Middle Tennessee!

Our Story

Over a decade ago, community leaders saw a need for an inventory of community needs and resources. While donors were inundated with requests for contributions, they weren’t always confident about how their philanthropic dollars were being put to use. Local philanthropists envisioned a tool that would empower givers to understand the needs of the local nonprofit community, and to feel confident in their philanthropic investments.

In 2004, this took the shape of GivingMatters.com, a tool for nonprofits, donors, and funders to research local issues and the nonprofits serving those issues. Today, GivingMatters.com hosts over 2,000 profiles of Middle Tennessee nonprofits which contain detailed information on organizations’ history, programs, governance, and finances – all FREE to both nonprofits and users!

GivingMatters.com for Nonprofits

GivingMatters.com is an online platform where nonprofit organizations can tell their stories and offer transparency to online donors. Funders and donors to view, at a glance, the operations of your nonprofit organization. Visitors to your profile can see be assured that your organization is maintaining financial best practices and doing good work for the community.

Maintaining a GivingMatters.com profile is also a requirement for several valuable area grants and fundraising opportunities, such as The Big Payback. Organizations should complete an annual update of important profile information to make sure they're eligible for these opportunities. Visit Updating Your Profile FAQs for more information on this annual update process. If you're interested in starting a GivingMatters.com profile for your organization, you can learn about that process here.

GivingMatters.com for Donors

Donors can use GivingMatters.com to find the nonprofit organizations doing good work in their community. Think of GivingMatters.com as a platform where you can do your philanthropic online “shopping.” You can search organizations specifically by county, area of interest category, and even budget size. Read Issue Overviews to learn what needs are affecting your community. Use our Research Guide to gauge organizations' standards of practice when you look at their program descriptions, financial documents, and more. Most of all, use GivingMatters.com to feel confident about how you support your community.

Visit our FAQs for Donors page for more information on how you can utilize GivingMatters.com for your philanthropic giving.

GivingMatters.com for Funders

Thanks to the high level of transparency required on GivingMatters.com, foundations, corporations, and other funders can use the data and documents found on the profiles to support their grant making. Instead of requiring the upload of Form 990s, budgets, and other documents into your grant software, you can simply use GivingMatters to find these documents listed publicly. These partner funders are also able to request specific grant-making reports from the GivingMatters.com team. We’ll pull the data from your grant applicants' profiles for you, so you don’t have to search profile by profile!

If you represent a grant making organization and are interested in the assistance GivingMatters.com can offer you, please contact givingmatters@cfmt.org.

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