How much did B & B FOUNDATION grant in FY2020?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 93% of B & B FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2020 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

Under $10k4 grants · $2k
$10k–50k1 grant · $40k
$50k–250k2 grants · $154k
$250k+2 grants · $1.9M

$40,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

VANGUARD CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND$1,482,030
VANGUARD CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND$415,012
TEMPLE$103,750
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE$50,000
GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$40,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL$1,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$1,000
IM STILL HERE FOUNDATION$100
CROHNS AND COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$100

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Your human-services grants (FY18–20, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$798k · 20 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2020, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$798k

$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+45%

Still filing today

30%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureInternationalEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

US
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE
2× · 2019–2020 · $53k · revenue +31%
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
2× · 2018–2019 · $19k · revenue +92%
AH
ALIVE HOSPICE
2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +23%

Funded once

FF
FIFTY FORWARD
one grant, 2018 · $16k
JF
JEWISH FEDERATION
one grant, 2019 · $8k
PI
PARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES
one grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue +20%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio is a non-profit, non-commercial public media service. nashville public radio's mission is to create and deliver content essential to understanding your world.

Arts & Culture

Jewish Federation of Nashville and

To serve as the central voluntary communal organization of the jewish community

Philanthropy

Nashville Conflict Resolution Ctr

Nashville conflict resolution center (ncrc) helps people mediate conflict to restore family, housing and community stability.

Crime & Legal

Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville Inc

Arts & business council of greater nashville supports and promotes the arts by driving collaboration between arts and business that contribute to the creativity, vitality, and prosperity of greater nashville/the regions/the city.

Crime & Legal

Nashville Technology Council

Leading voice & advocate for middle tn's information technology ecosystem & tech professionals.

Community Improvement

Nashville Adult Literacy Council

The nashville adult literacy council mission is to help nashville adults with the reading, writing, and english-speaking skills they need for the life they want. learners at nalc reach their goals through literacy.

Education

Nashville Software School Inc

Nashville software school's mission is to expand the technology workforce in middle tennessee by providing motivated individuals with access to a career in technology through training, mentorship, and learning by doing.

Education

Nashville Film Festival

To promote or showcase independent and student films and film makers through an annual film festival.

Arts & Culture

The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit

The nashville chamber public benefit foundation coordinates efforts with business, education and government.

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Nashville Cares

Nashville cares mission is to end the hiv/aids epidemic in middle tennessee.

Health

Jewish Family Service of Nashville and

Provides professional social services from jewish perspectives which respond to & support individuals & families through life's transitions.

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National Council of Jewish Women

Inspired by jewish values, the national council of jewish women is a grassroots organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children, and families, and by safeguarding…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Public Television Inc and the most unlike its peers is Abrasive Media Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/25

the rest of the field

10%

2,361/24,844

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/24

Grantees still filing

20/24

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,575,440Crime & Legal$77,600Education$53,000Human Services$42,650Civil Rights$19,200International$8,700Community Improvement$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundation of MiddleTN29.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Blum Family Foundation · The Frist Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist · James R Meadows Jr Foundation · Shayne Foundation · The Annette & Irwin Eskind · The Healing Trust · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation B & B FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NASHVILLE COMMUNITY BAIL FUND.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~18 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 820976867 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NASHVILLE COMMUNITY BAIL FUND, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 18 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 20% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to B & B Foundation?

Find your warmest path to B & B Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

B & B FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to B & B Foundation?

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B & B FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to B & B Foundation?

More from the funding graph