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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.

$470k
Granted FY2024still arriving
76
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$2.3MPhilanthropy$1.0MEducation$631kHealth$310kInternational$121kHousing & Shelter$96kPublic Safety & Disaster$63kArts & Culture$56kOther$0
02FY2024 · 76 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k63 grants · $128k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $243k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$1,525
Median grant
16
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$100,000
VILLAGE AT GLENCLIFF$32,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TN - KEVIN & DARLA HAMMONS CHARITABLE ADVISE$25,000
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$25,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TN - KEVIN & DARLA HAMMONS CHARITABLE ADVISE$25,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE - GABE AND PAM OTTINGER FAMILY FUN$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
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY$10,000
ABLE VOICES$9,755
DANCING FOR SAFE HAVEN$8,500
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRIENDS LIFE COMMUNITY: $600 → 14%GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC: $250 → 4%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

MT
WI
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 56 repeat orgs$513k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
66

Total granted

$4.0M
$365k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+19%

Still filing today

64%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthInternationalHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • AU
    AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $300k · revenue +80%
  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +10%
  • A
    ABLEVOICES
    4× · 2021–2024 · $43k · revenue +255%

Funded once

  • HT
    HOPE THROUGH HEALING HANDS
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -89%
  • TC
    THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TN - T MARK AND DENA COBB BUFORD FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $29k
  • SC
    SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND ACCT 6526-2064
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
3
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
4
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
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
7
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
8
Bloodwater Mission Inc

Bloodwater mission, inc. (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization registered in nashville, tennessee that operates an international nonprofit that partners with african community-driven organizations to end water and hiv/aids…

Religion
9
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
10
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission; 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.
04the grantee network

81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/81
Grantees still filing
52/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHS CARES FUND: $2,255,000 · OtherCHS CARES FUNDAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION+98 more: $1,184,745 · Other+98 moreAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $300,000 · EducationAUBURN UNI…DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $75,156 · EducationDREXEL UNI…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Education+13 more: $30,766 · Education+13 moreNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $125,000 · PhilanthropyHOPE THROUGH HEALING HANDS: $100,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $16,070 · PhilanthropyDaffy Charitable Fund: $14,973 · Philanthropy+3 more: $9,360 · PhilanthropyTHE VILLAGE AT GLENCLIFF: $114,583 · Housing & ShelterOPEN TABLE OF NASHVILLE INC: $55,500 · Housing & ShelterNASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC: $31,469 · Housing & Shelter+3 more: $9,420 · Housing & ShelterAmerican Heart Association Inc: $33,500 · HealthHOPE CLINIC FOR WOMEN: $19,250 · HealthMERCY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $12,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $10,900 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,500 · Health+9 more: $7,200 · HealthABLEVOICES: $43,220 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE BALLET: $7,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $250 · Arts & CultureFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $25,000 · Community ImprovementOASIS CENTER INC: $1,000 · Community Improvement
Other$3,639,745Education$425,922Philanthropy$265,403Housing & Shelter$210,972Health$86,350Arts & Culture$56,470Community Improvement$26,000

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 budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VILLAGE AT GLENCLIFF: $114,583 over 3y, 10% of budgetHOPE THROUGH HEALING HANDS: $100,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $75,156 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN TABLE OF NASHVILLE INC: $55,500 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetABLEVOICES: $43,220 over 4y, 19% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $33,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC: $31,469 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $19,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE CLINIC FOR WOMEN: $19,250 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSILOAM HEALTH: $19,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $16,070 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDaffy Charitable Fund: $14,973 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $14,950 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRIGHTSTONE INC: $11,116 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $10,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $7,415 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE BALLET: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $6,860 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYPRESS GROVE ACADEMY: $6,750 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $6,018 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $5,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAsheville Poverty Initiative: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEXT DOOR INC: $3,270 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION: $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAMSON COUNTY CASA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EXODUS ROAD INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrentwood Bruins 12th Man Club Inc: $1,550 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSNOWDROP FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWESLEYAN COLLEGE: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKINNICKINNIC RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $1,015 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE WILLCO: $1,000 over 1y, 6.4% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 Community Foundat…Hca Healthcare Founda…United Way of Middle …Dorothy Cate and Thom…The Healing Trust For…Nashville Predators F…Memorial Foundation I…Servant FoundationDettwiller FoundationThe Frist FoundationCarolyn Smith Foundat…Raymond James Charita…
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN41× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Community Health Systems Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Health Systems Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Community Health Systems Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Community Health Systems Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 149 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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