· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $14k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $475k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NEXT DOOR INC | $250,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIV SCHOOL OF NURSING | $225,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CTR | $125,000 |
| THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA | $125,000 |
| OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| PROVERBS 1210 ANIMAL RESCUE | $4,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIV SCHOOL OF NURSING | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $157k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Conway-Welch 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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k 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
- TNTHE NEXT DOOR INC3× · 2017–2024 · $376k · revenue +107%
- VUVanderbilt University Medical Center6× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +120%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches5× · 2017–2022 · $141k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- TPTENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +78%
- SFSOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCHgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +39%
- AAAmerican Academy of Nursinggraduatedone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +31%
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.
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.
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
In fulfillment of our mission to inspire a culture of understanding and discovery of our natural world through conservation, innovation and leadership, our goal is to build a first class zoo for middle tennessee and to develop a facility…
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.
The national nurse-led care consortium (nncc) strives to advance nurse-led healthcare through policy, consultation, and programs to reduce health disparities and meet people's primary care and wellness needs.
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.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Advancing science, education, and careers to improve neurologic health for all.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
To empower all nurse practitioners to advance quality health care through practice, education, advocacy, research and leadership.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society for Women's Health Research and the most unlike its peers is Paws for Purple Hearts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 46 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 THE NEXT DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Nashville Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds American Academy of Nursing ↗
- Who funds NLN Foundation for Nursing Education ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE ↗
- Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ACTION PLATFORM ↗
- Who funds RENEWAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE THROUGH HEALING HANDS ↗
- Who funds FRIST ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds PROVERBS 1210 ANIMAL RESCUE AND ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PARK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRANKIE'S FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds Belmont University ↗
- Who funds LIFE HOUSE FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF NASHVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS 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: 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
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 Conway-Welch 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.
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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