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Community Health Systems Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k63 grants · $128k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $243k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| VILLAGE AT GLENCLIFF | $32,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE - GABE AND PAM OTTINGER FAMILY FUN | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TN - KEVIN & DARLA HAMMONS CHARITABLE ADVISE | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TN - KEVIN & DARLA HAMMONS CHARITABLE ADVISE | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $25,000 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $23,906 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE - JASON AND CARRIE JOHNSON FAMILY | $20,045 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE - THE JUSTIN PITT FAMILY CHARITABL | $20,000 |
| DAFFY CHARITABLE FUND | $14,973 |
| DAFFY CHARITABLE FUND - PURSUIT IMPACT HORRAR FAMILY FUND | $12,000 |
| CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| ABLE VOICES | $9,755 |
| DANCING FOR SAFE HAVEN | $8,500 |
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 (FY23–24, $850) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
56 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 23 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k 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
- AUAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $300k · revenue +80%
- DUDREXEL UNIVERSITY4× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +10%
- AABLEVOICES4× · 2021–2024 · $43k · revenue +255%
Funded once
- HTHOPE THROUGH HEALING HANDSone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -89%
- TCTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TN - T MARK AND DENA COBB BUFORD FUNDone grant, 2020 · $29k
- TCTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TN - WILLIS FAMILY ADVISED FUNDone grant, 2020 · $25k
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 Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Philadelphia Museum of Art. 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 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
81 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. 81 of the 149 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 AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE AT GLENCLIFF ↗
- Who funds HOPE THROUGH HEALING HANDS ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OPEN TABLE OF NASHVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds ABLEVOICES ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CLINIC FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds SILOAM HEALTH ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds THISTLE FARMS 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 · Hca Healthcare Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Nashville Predators Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Dettwiller Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Carolyn Smith Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Community Health Systems 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.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% 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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