· Private foundation
Cal Turner Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $574k
- $250k+13 grants · $9.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $4,000,000 |
| WILLIAMSON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $1,000,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER - VUMC | $1,000,000 |
| CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE SHRINE OF ST NICHOLAS | $500,000 |
| BRENTWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (BUMC) | $500,000 |
| FROM THE HEART PRODUCTIONS INC | $350,000 |
| FROM THE HEART PRODUCTIONS INC | $350,000 |
| FROM THE HEART PRODUCTIONS INC | $250,000 |
| REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING INC | $250,000 |
| ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $250,000 |
| ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $250,000 |
| ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $250,000 |
| ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $210,000 |
| ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $100,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of Cal Turner Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in TN; read by stated purpose it is 74% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- VUVanderbilt University Medical Center3× · 2022–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +35%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273)3× · 2021–2023 · $2.5M · revenue +12%
- FRFRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +55%
Funded once
- VVVU - VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY TURNER FAMILY CENTER FOR SOCIAL VENTURES PMB 407one grant, 2022 · $250k
- NFNASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +42%
- VUVANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICALone grant, 2020 · $250k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…
The mission of My Fathers House Nashville (MFHN) is to provide shelter, parenting education, recovery information and life skills for fathers transitioning out of institutional settings or homelessness.
People who have just been released from prison are typically stigmatized, overlooked, and pigeonholed by society. when they walk into project return, they discover that here they are valued, heard, and encouraged. while reduction of…
Helping women survivors recover & heal from prostitution, trafficking, & addiction. we do this by providing a safe and supportive place to live, a meaningful job, and a lifelong sisterhood of support.
Raising resilience tennessee's (formerly known as the family center, inc.) mission is breaking multigenerational cycles of childhood trauma and our vision is a resilient community where all children thrive.
Fort Sanders Regional 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.
To improve tennessee health statistics with a targeted focus on women's health needs by providing access to wellness programs, strength training, physical and nutritional education, and personal coaching. the new beginnings center gives…
Our mission is "delivering care that changes people's lives"
East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…
In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…
The mission of easterseals tennessee is to make profound positive differences in the lives of people with disabilities as they learn, work, and play in their communities.
Founded in 1886, thompson child & family focus is called to strengthen children, families, and communitiesdelivering measurable outcomes through healing, teaching, worship, and play. for more than a century, thompson has transformed lives…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Nashville Dream Center and the most unlike its peers is Judge Dinkins Educational Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds WILLIAMSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds From The Heart Productions ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Red Road Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW WAY NOW INC ↗
- Who funds THE WELL COFFEEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE K9 SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY MISSION VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds JUDGE DINKINS EDUCATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds PRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds VETERAN TICKETS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER ↗
- Who funds FANNIE BATTLE DAY HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST STEPS INC ↗
- Who funds SHOWER THE PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds BAREFOOT REPUBLIC INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHER TO MOTHER INC ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Servant Foundation · Speer Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · Carolyn Smith Foundation · Andrea Waitt Carlton Family Foundation · Baird Foundation 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 organization Cal Turner Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
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 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.
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