· Private foundation
Andrea Waitt Carlton Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k40 grants · $136k
- $10k–50k41 grants · $938k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+1 grant · $262k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BELMONT UNIVERSITY | $262,000 |
| BELMONT UNIVERSITY | $203,569 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $150,000 |
| PEARSON LAKES ART CENTER | $125,000 |
| THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION | $101,748 |
| OPERATION STAND DOWN | $101,748 |
| FRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE | $100,000 |
| OPERATION STAND DOWN | $100,000 |
| NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION | $100,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $80,000 |
| COMMUNIO | $75,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $75,000 |
| CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN & | $66,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LAKESIDE LABS | $62,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $892k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
133 repeat relationships: 71 still active in FY2024, 62 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $302k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BUBelmont University6× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +55%
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2024 · $750k · revenue +9%- PLPEARSON LAKES ART CENTER4× · 2021–2024 · $530k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- YOYMCA OF THE OKOBOJISone grant, 2021 · $100k
- CHCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +48%
- FUFURMAN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $45k · revenue +27%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
The organization's primary mission is conserving land where people and nature can thrive by creating green corridors linking existing public lands using conservation easments and outright purchase.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
To improve the efficacy, speed, cost, sustainability, and scaling of conservation solutions through harnessing exponential technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship to prevent human-induced extinction.
To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.
How this is measured
152 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 152 of the 233 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Belmont University ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEARSON LAKES ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC ARNOLDS PARK INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEACON CENTER OF TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS ↗
- Who funds REBOOT RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds MEN OF VALOR ↗
- Who funds PET COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds BAREFOOT REPUBLIC INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AGAPE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Ebs Foundation · Louise B Wallace Foundation 19702
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Andrea Waitt Carlton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Andrea Waitt Carlton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Next Door Inc: 39% of income from government
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation: 4% of income from government
- Sea Turtle Conservancy: 1% of income from government
- Humane Society of Marion County Inc: 0% of income from government
- Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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