How much does Anne Bransford Wallace Foundation give?

Anne Bransford Wallace Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $43,460 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 43 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Anne Bransford Wallace Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (18%), Arts & Culture (14%), Education (12%).

Who are Anne Bransford Wallace Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Oz Arts Inc ($37k), Nashville Humane Association Aka Nashville Humane Society ($19k), Hollins University Corporation ($15k).

Does Anne Bransford Wallace Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Anne Bransford Wallace Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Anne Bransford Wallace Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Frist Foundation, The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc.

Where is Anne Bransford Wallace Foundation based?

Anne Bransford Wallace Foundation is based in TN.

Anne Bransford Wallace Foundation

Anne Bransford Wallace Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Anne Bransford Wallace Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$43k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$54kArts & Culture$40kEducation$36kFood & Nutrition$27kAnimals$19kEnvironment$19kPhilanthropy$17kRecreation & Sports$13kOther$0

02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500

Median grant

States reached

$553k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
OZ ARTS	$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$5,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK	$3,500
NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION	$3,250
HOLLINS UNIVERSITY	$2,500
NASHVILLE ENTREPRENEUR CTR	$2,260
HARPETH HALL SCHOOL	$2,200
100 CLUB OF NASHVILLE	$1,500
Individual grant recipient	$1,250
GREENWAYS FOR NASHVILLE	$1,000
GRAND CANYON RIVER GUIDES	$1,000
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES	$1,000
LAND TRUST FOR TN	$1,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS	$1,000
NEW HOPE GIRLS	$1,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$252k · 60 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

60 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$252k

$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%

+11%

Still filing today

55%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

NH
NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY
8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +91%
TH
THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL
8× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +141%
RH
RENEWAL HOUSE INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +178%

Funded once

PP
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF TENNESSEE
one grant, 2023 · $5k
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +8%
SR
SUMNER RUGBY CLUB
one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -70%

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.

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

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

Nashville Zoo Inc

In fulfillment of our mission to inspire a culture of understanding and discovery of our natural world through conservation, innovation and leadership, our goal is to build a first class zoo for middle tennessee and to develop a facility…

Animals

Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education

Nashville Cares

Nashville cares exists to end the hiv epidemic, promote comprehensive sexual health and end sexual health stigmatization and discrimination through prevention, education, treatment, support, advocacy, and strategic partnership.

Health

Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health

Northeast Tenn Assoc of Realtors

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

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Tennessee Health Care Association

To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.

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Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health

Nashville Public Media Inc

Nashville banner is a locally owned, community supported, civic news organization. we exist to empower the people of nashville to make informed decisions by providing non-partisan journalism from an independent, nonprofit newsroom. we are…

Arts & Culture

Nashville Police & Public Safety Alliance

To create a safer nashville through initiatives that engage our community, businesses, and nonprofits to prevent crime, introduce innovation and best practices, and help build the best police department in the nation.

Public Safety & Disaster

Nashville Technology Council

Ntc mission is to advance the diverse technology ecosystem by connecting and promoting members, attracting, growing and retaining tech talent, and providing opportunities to reinvest in the greater nashville community.

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is Science and Nonduality. 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

53 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. 53 of the 116 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

52/53

Grantees still filing

37/53

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$148,478Arts & Culture$39,400Education$35,917Health$24,100Animals$19,300Environment$13,400Recreation & Sports$10,950

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.

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 Frist FoundationTN42.3× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Frist Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation · Louise B Wallace Foundation 19702 · Henry Laird Smith Foundation · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc · Joe C Davis 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 Anne Bransford Wallace Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anne Bransford Wallace Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home