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Caritas Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHEEKWOOD | $50,000 |
| PENCIL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| OAK HILL SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER NASHVILLE | $12,500 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST JOHN'S SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| ST GEORGE'S EPISCOPAL CHRUCH | $7,000 |
| DWTX | $5,000 |
| HERITAGE SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT | $2,000 |
| SYMPHONY CAMPAIGN | $2,000 |
| MUSICAMBIA INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- MBMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE4× · 2021–2024 · $105k · revenue +11%
- CBCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART4× · 2022–2025 · $66k · revenue +35%
- NPNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +205%
Funded once
- LFLIVELIKELOU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -46%
- ESEPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF NASHVILLEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +68%
- TCTHE CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINEone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Luke's Community House Inc and the most unlike its peers is People Against Leigh Syndrome. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 25 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 MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds PENCIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIVELIKELOU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds St John's School ↗
- Who funds The Heritage Society ↗
- Who funds STRATFORD HALL ↗
- Who funds OAK HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds FAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE AGAINST LEIGH SYNDROME ↗
- Who funds HYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ROOFTOP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICAMBIA 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: Enchiridion Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · M Stratton Foster Charitable Foundation · Milton and Denice Johnson Family Foundation · Boulevard Bolt Inc · The West End Home Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation
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 Caritas 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.
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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Find your warmest path to Caritas Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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