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Conway-Welch Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $14k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $475k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$125,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LIFE HOUSE FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 14%CHILDREN'S NUTRITION PROGRAM OF HAITI: $50 → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $85k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $21k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $15k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $100 → 14%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Conway-Welch Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Conway-Welch Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 16 repeat orgs$435k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
26

Total granted

$1.8M
$298k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+75%

Still filing today

75%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TN
    THE NEXT DOOR INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $376k · revenue +107%
  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    6× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +120%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    5× · 2017–2022 · $141k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • TP
    TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +78%
  • SF
    SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCHgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +29%
  • AA
    American Academy of Nursinggraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +31%
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
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
2
National Committee for Quality Assurance

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

Health
3
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
4
Nashville Zoo Inc

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…

Animals
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 Nurse-Led Care Consortium

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.

Health
7
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
8
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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9
National Public Radio Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
10
The American Neurological Association

Advancing science, education, and careers to improve neurologic health for all.

Health
11
Npr Foundation

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…

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12
American Association of Nurse Practitioners

To empower all nurse practitioners to advance quality health care through practice, education, advocacy, research and leadership.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society for Women's Health Research; 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.
05the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
27/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING: $792,920 · OtherVANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSINGTENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM: $100,000 · OtherTENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM+25 more: $98,318 · Other+25 moreTHE NEXT DOOR INC: $376,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE NEXT DOOR INCTENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION: $150,000 · Arts & CultureTENNESSEE PER…Nashville Symphony Association: $105,000 · Arts & CultureNashville Sym…CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $9,667 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $4,500 · Arts & CultureVanderbilt University Medical Center: $150,000 · HealthVanderbilt U…SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH: $50,000 · HealthSOCIETY FOR …American Academy of Nursing: $39,630 · HealthAmerican Aca…+1 more: $5,500 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $140,791 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $15,000 · Human Services+3 more: $1,150 · Human ServicesTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $125,000 · EducationNLN Foundation for Nursing Education: $20,000 · Education+2 more: $2,446 · EducationNASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC: $51,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$991,238Housing & Shelter$376,000Arts & Culture$269,167Health$245,130Human Services$156,941Education$147,446Food & Nutrition$51,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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 Founda…Enchiridion FoundationDorothy Cate and Thom…Vanderbilt UniversityMemorial Foundation I…The Steven & Laurie E…The Community Foundat…Publix Super Markets …The Wade-Buntin Famil…The Blum Family Found…Louie M & Betty M Phi…Dettwiller Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Conway-Welch Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Conway-Welch Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Conway-Welch Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Conway-Welch Family Foundation Inc 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 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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