· Private foundation
C&B Hearn Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| HOPE STATION | $10,000 |
| EQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION | $6,250 |
| NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT | $5,000 |
| THISTLE FARMS | $5,000 |
| WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION | $3,005 |
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 (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TFTHISTLE FARMS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +186%
Compassion International Incorporated4× · 2017–2020 · $55k · revenue +16%- ECEQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION7× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- CMCHRISTIAN MUSIC BROADCASTERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +29%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $6k
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.
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.
To promote the education and growth of the country music industry with a focus on radio. crb provides seminars for professionals involved in country music and radio that promote the exchange of ideas and business practices across the…
1. heighten awareness and grow the business of country music.2. serve as the information and communication center for industry and consumer trends.3. provide a forum for industry leadership to advance country music.4. recognize excellence…
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…
Communicate gospel by music and art
Nashville Wine Auction engages local and world wine communities to produce wine related events which raise money to fight cancer.
The family broadcasts the hope of jesus christ to strengthen and encourage listeners.
Creative works is organized to accelerate cultural and economic change by focusing on connecting, inspiring and educating the memphis creative community.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
To develop, foster, promote and protect programs for the general welfare, including economic, social, educational and political well-being of farm people of the great state of tennessee.
Religious broadcasting services to involve christians in professional and media fields to join force in the production of gospel programs for radio and
To advocate for people who are homless or near homeless, strategically planning for housing and services in the community, maximizing resources and collaboarating with community partners to implement housing and services within the…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 15 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
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 THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds EQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN MUSIC BROADCASTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE STATION ↗
- Who funds PORTERS CALL ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization C&B Hearn Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from C&B Hearn Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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