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Andrews and Waller Fund at a glance

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Andrews and Waller Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$28k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$51kRecreation & Sports$21kArts & Culture$21kEnvironment$19kHuman Services$10kFood & Nutrition$10kHousing & Shelter$7kHealth$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$7,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$85k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION$7,000
ROOFTOP NASHVILLE$7,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$7,000
UTAH OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION$2,500
THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF UTAH$2,500
SAGELAND COLLABORATIVE$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ROOFTOP NASHVILLE: $7k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$98k · 8 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$98k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+2%

Still filing today

63%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TH
    THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +95%
  • HA
    HARDING ACADEMY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +27%
  • TE
    THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL
    3× · 2021–2023 · $4k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • TR
    TRAVELERS REST HISORIC HOUSE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • OLDFIELDS SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -59%
  • HS
    HOPE SPRINGS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Nashville Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Kings Academy Nashville

King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.

Education
3
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc

To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.

Arts & Culture
4
New Hope Academy

Christ-centered school educating children of diverse racial & socioeconomic backgrounds by establishing a biblical worldview & preparing each child to flourish academically, emotionally, socially & spiritually.

Education
5
Episcopal School of Nashville

The episcopal school of nashville, a diverse urban independent school, is dedicated to nurturing the joy of learning and the spirit of discovery in each of its students.

Education
6
Northeast Tenn Assoc of Realtors

Our mission is to serve our members through education, professionalism, and legislative involvement

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7
Valor Collegiate Academies

To prepare a diverse student population for success in college and to live inspired and purposeful lives. our scholars will graduate with academic skills, social-emotional skills, and positive character strengths that rival the outcomes of…

Education
8
The New American Academy Charter School

The new american academy charter school empowers learners and inspires leaders to make this a better world. through our collaborative teacher teams, mastery-based career ladder, and looping cycles, we offer personalized rigorous…

Education
9
Communities in Schools of Tennessee

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
10
Eastern National

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.

Recreation & Sports
11
Harpeth Conservancy

To restore and protect clean water and healthy ecosystems for rivers in tennessee by employing scientific expertise and collaborative relationships to develop, promote, and support broad community stewardship and action.

Environment
12
Roanoke Symphony Orchestra

The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hope Springs Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF WARNER PARK: $21,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF WARNER PARKUTAH OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · OtherUTAH OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATIONUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHTRAVELERS REST HISORIC HOUSE: $10,000 · OtherTRAVELERS REST HISORIC HOUSESECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $7,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $2,500 · Other+1 more: $1,000 · OtherTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL: $25,000 · EducationTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOLHARDING ACADEMY: $17,500 · EducationHARDING ACADEMYOLDFIELDS SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · EducationOLDFIELDS SCHOOL INCTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL: $3,500 · EducationTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOLNASHVILLE OPERA ASSOCIATION: $8,500 · Arts & CultureNashville Symphony Association: $2,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $7,000 · EnvironmentSageland Collaborative: $2,000 · EnvironmentROOFTOP FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Human ServicesHOPE SPRINGS INC: $5,000 · HealthUNITED WAY OF EAST TENNESSEE HIGHLANDS INC: $4,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$61,500Education$51,000Arts & Culture$10,500Environment$9,000Human Services$7,000Health$5,000Philanthropy$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHARDING ACADEMY: $17,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE OPERA ASSOCIATION: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLDFIELDS SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EAST TENNESSEE HIGHLANDS INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNashville Symphony Association: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSageland Collaborative: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION ANDREW GROUP INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Dorothy Cate and Thom…Hca Healthcare Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Andrews and Waller Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Andrews and Waller Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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