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Conway-Welch Family Foundation Inc

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.

$739k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$125,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 30
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$9.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Conway-Welch Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$739k57%
FY20234$551k25%
FY20226$315k0%
FY20219$187k11%
FY20207$180k43%
FY20193$16k33%
FY201815$76k40%
FY201730$173kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$943kEducation$647kArts & Culture$369kPublic Safety & Disaster$141kFood & Nutrition$51kAnimals$21kEnvironment$20kHuman Services$17kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 31 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($964k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Conway-Welch Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Next Door Inc: $376,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetTennessee Performing Arts Center (Tpac) Management Corporation: $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $140,791 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Catholic University of America: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNashville Symphony Association: $105,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNashville Food Project Inc: $51,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSociety for Women's Health Research: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetAmerican Academy of Nursing: $39,630 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNLN Foundation for Nursing Education: $20,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetFamily & Children's Service: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art: $9,667 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGlobal Action Platform: $7,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetRenewal House Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHope Through Healing Hands: $5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFrist Art Museum: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProverbs 1210 Animal Rescue and Adoption: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOld Friends Senior Dogs Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNashville Humane Association Aka Nashville Humane Society: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPark Center Inc: $1,450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFreed-Hardeman University: $1,446 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFrankie's Friends Inc: $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBelmont University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Warner Parks Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLife House Foundation for Children: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNational Academy of Sciences: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee: $440 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Junior League of Nashville Inc: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSenior Citizens Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPaws for Purple Hearts: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Nutrition Program of Haiti Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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.

Hca Healthcare FoundationTN27.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hca Healthcare Foundation · Enchiridion Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Vanderbilt University · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn · Dettwiller Foundation

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.

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About Conway-Welch Family Foundation Inc

How much does Conway-Welch Family Foundation Inc give?
Conway-Welch Family Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $739,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Conway-Welch Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (42%), Education (29%), Arts & Culture (17%).
Who are Conway-Welch Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Next Door Inc ($376k), Tennessee Performing Arts Center (Tpac) Management Corporation ($150k), Vanderbilt University Medical Center ($150k).
Does Conway-Welch Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Conway-Welch Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Conway-Welch Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hca Healthcare Foundation, Enchiridion Foundation, Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation.
Where is Conway-Welch Family Foundation Inc based?
Conway-Welch Family Foundation Inc is based in TN.

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 46 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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