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B & B Foundation at a glance

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B & B Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.1M
Granted FY2020
9
Grants FY2020
4
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Philanthropy$1.9MReligion$192kEducation$158kSocial Science$113kCrime & Legal$98kHuman Services$56kInternational$46kHealth$4kOther$0
02FY2020 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$1,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL$1,000
CROHNS AND COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$100
IM STILL HERE FOUNDATION$100
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $58k) 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%GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $40k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $16k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $3k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $100 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
RI
CA
TN
DC
AL
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.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$798k · 19 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2020, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
27

Total granted

$798k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+29%

Still filing today

32%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthCrime & LegalEducationInternationalOther
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

  • US
    UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $56k · revenue +37%
  • EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
    2× · 2018–2019 · $19k · revenue +77%
  • AH
    ALIVE HOSPICE INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • SC
    SENIOR CITIZENS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $16k · revenue +38%
  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION
    one grant, 2019 · $8k
  • PI
    PARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2019 · $7k · 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.

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
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
3
Nashville Conflict Resolution Ctr

Nashville conflict resolution center (ncrc) works to provide access to justice for all tennesseeans. through a restorative approach of mediation, we help people resolve legal crises quickly, safely, and effectively outside of a courtroom.

Crime & Legal
4
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
5
Nashville Fellows Program Inc

Provide support for under-served youth

Religion
6
Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee

The jewish federation of nashville is the central voluntary communal organization of the jewish community. through its fund-raising, planning and community relations efforts, either independently or in partnership with other jewish…

Philanthropy
7
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
8
Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors

To provide free and affordable immigration legal services to individuals who fall below 200% of the federal poverty guidelines or face other financial barriers to accessing legal representation, to educate the public about issues related…

Human Services
9
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
10
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
11
Nashville Bar Association

Nashville bar association is organized to improve the practice of law through education, service & fellowship

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12
Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition

Tirrc is a statewide, immigrant and refugee-led collaboration. our mission is to build power, amplify our voices, and organize communities to advocate for our rights. our vision is a stronger, more inclusive tennessee where people of all…

Civil Rights
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 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 52 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/28
Grantees still filing
20/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VANGUARD CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND: $1,897,042 · OtherVANGUARD CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUNDTEMPLE: $185,740 · OtherTEMPLEIndividual grant recipient: $158,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPARDES INSTITUTE: $113,150 · OtherVANDERBILT UNIV DIVINITY SCHOOL: $101,000 · Other+34 more: $98,458 · OtherNASHVILLE COMMUNITY BAIL FUND: $77,500 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $100 · Crime & LegalJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NASHVILLE: $40,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $15,500 · Human ServicesALIVE HOSPICE INC: $2,650 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE: $55,650 · Education+1 more: $200 · EducationEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $19,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $200 · Civil RightsPARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC: $6,500 · InternationalSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $2,000 · International+1 more: $200 · InternationalJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $5,000 · Religion
Other$2,554,090Crime & Legal$77,600Human Services$58,150Education$55,850Civil Rights$19,200International$8,700Religion$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNASHVILLE COMMUNITY BAIL FUND: $77,500 over 3y, 20% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE: $55,650 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NASHVILLE: $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $19,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $15,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALIVE HOSPICE INC: $2,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELCOURT THEATRE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOASIS CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE BALLET: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEWORK HOTLINE INC: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITYNASHVILLE: $200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABRASIVE MEDIA INC: $200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT ROCHESTER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetI'M STILL HERE FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFaith & Culture Center: $80 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Blum Family Found…Memorial Foundation I…The Community Foundat…The Frist FoundationThe Steven & Laurie E…Hca Healthcare Founda…Dorothy Cate and Thom…James R Meadows Jr Fo…Enchiridion FoundationThe Healing Trust For…Eden FoundationEisen-Wald Foundation
The Blum Family FoundationTN30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blum Family Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · James R Meadows Jr Foundation · Enchiridion Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Eden Foundation · Eisen-Wald 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 B & B Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from B & B Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 52 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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