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Crittenden Foundation at a glance

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Crittenden 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.

$270k
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$581kPhilanthropy$184kAnimals$148kHealth$104kHuman Services$94kCivil Rights$83kPublic Benefit$83kFood & Nutrition$81kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $211k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRIPLE HELIX INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE$36,000
CUSTOMIZED VETERANS GROUP$33,000
CITIZEN JOURNALISM FOUNDATION$33,000
CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION$25,000
CHAUTAUQUA BOUNDLESS CAMPAIGN$25,000
NASHVILLE BALLET$25,000
REDEMPTION ROAD RESCUE$14,000
NASHVILLE ZOO$10,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$10,000
NASHVILLE SYMPHONY ANNUAL FUND$6,500
LITTLETON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$4,000
TRINITY HOPE$3,200
THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF MEMPHIS$3,000
CROSSROADS CAMPUS$3,000
THE GREATER MEMPHIS GREENLINE - GMC$3,000
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 (FY20–24, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME: $10k → 12%BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME: $5k → 12%BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME: $3k → 12%CUSTOMIZED VETERANS GROUP: $33k → 17%CUSTOMIZED VETERANS GROUP: $18k → 17%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $3k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $1k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $1k → 14%CROSSROADS CAPUS: $1k → 14%CROSSROADS CAPUS: $250 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
WY
CA
CO
MO
VA
TN
NC
DC
MS
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 44 repeat orgs$143k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against -23% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
11

Total granted

$1.5M
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
-23%

Still filing today

64%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentPublic BenefitOther
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

  • NB
    NASHVILLE BALLET
    7× · 2018–2024 · $281k · revenue +32%
  • CI
    CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $105k · revenue +98%
  • JUDICIAL WATCH INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $83k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • PV
    PROJECT VERITAS
    one grant, 2022 · $33k · revenue +158%
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FUND OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • MO
    MONC OPERA FUN
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
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
Nashville Public Media Inc

Nashville banner is a locally owned, community supported, civic news organization. we exist to empower the people of nashville to make informed decisions by providing non-partisan journalism from an independent, nonprofit newsroom. we are…

Arts & Culture
3
Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville Inc

Arts & business council of greater nashville supports and promotes the arts by driving collaboration between arts and business that contribute to the creativity, vitality, and prosperity of greater nashville/the regions/the city.

Crime & Legal
4
Nashville Bar Association

Nashville bar association is organized to improve the practice of law through education, service & fellowship

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5
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment
6
Nashville Opera Association

To bravely imagine the power and passion of opera and who can sing and enjoy it.

Arts & Culture
7
Nashville Technology Council

Ntc mission is to advance the diverse technology ecosystem by connecting and promoting members, attracting, growing and retaining tech talent, and providing opportunities to reinvest in the greater nashville community.

Community Improvement
8
Nashville Wine Auction

Nashville Wine Auction engages local and world wine communities to produce wine related events which raise money to fight cancer.

Health
9
Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau

The mission of the NCVB is to maximize the economic contribution of the hospitality industry to the total community by developing and marketing Nashville as a premier domestic and international destination for visitors. This is the second…

Community Improvement
10
Nashville Police & Public Safety Alliance

To create a safer nashville through initiatives that engage our community, businesses, and nonprofits to prevent crime, introduce innovation and best practices, and help build the best police department in the nation.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Northeast Tenn Assoc of Realtors

Our mission is to serve our members through education, professionalism, and legislative involvement

—
12
Theatre Memphis

To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Humane Association Aka Nashville Humane Society; the most unlike its peers is Customized Veterans Group. 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

35 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. 35 of the 62 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
25/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION ANNUAL: $100,000 · OtherCHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION ANNUALTRIPLE HELIX INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE: $81,000 · OtherTRIPLE HELIX INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTUREVANDERBILT UNIVERSITY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $55,000 · OtherVANDERBILT UNIVERSITY CHILDREN'S HOSPITALCHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC PROMISE: $51,000 · OtherCHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC PROMISENASHVILLE SYMPHONY ANNUAL FUND: $50,500 · OtherNASHVILLE SYMPHONY ANNUAL FUNDCHAUTAUQUA BOUNDLESS CAMPAIGN: $50,000 · OtherCHAUTAUQUA BOUNDLESS CAMPAIGNIndividual grant recipient: $45,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL: $40,000 · OtherVANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICALPROJECT VERITAS: $32,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY FUND OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $25,000 · OtherCITIZEN JOURNALISM FOUNDATION: $33,000 · Other+33 more: $167,105 · Other+33 moreNASHVILLE BALLET: $280,800 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE BALLETCHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: $105,400 · Arts & CultureCHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTIONOPERA MEMPHIS INC: $46,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA MEMPHIS INCNASHVILLE BALLET FOUNDATION: $21,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $27,200 · Arts & Culture+4 moreNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $60,000 · AnimalsRedemption Road Rescue Inc: $60,000 · AnimalsNASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,500 · AnimalsJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $82,500 · Public BenefitEARTH INTELLIGENCE NETWORK: $5,000 · Public BenefitCustomized Veterans Group: $50,500 · Human ServicesBLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $6,250 · Human ServicesAura Home Women Vets: $52,500 · Housing & ShelterTRINITY HOPE INC: $49,600 · International
Other$730,105Arts & Culture$480,900Animals$125,500Public Benefit$87,500Human Services$74,250Housing & Shelter$52,500International$49,600

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 budgetNASHVILLE BALLET: $280,800 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: $105,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $82,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $60,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRedemption Road Rescue Inc: $60,000 over 7y, 9.4% of budgetAura Home Women Vets: $52,500 over 2y, 51% of budgetCustomized Veterans Group: $50,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetTRINITY HOPE INC: $49,600 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetOPERA MEMPHIS INC: $46,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetCITIZEN JOURNALISM FOUNDATION: $33,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNASHVILLE BALLET FOUNDATION: $21,500 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetBLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $16,300 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetROBERT H JACKSON CENTER INC: $12,200 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetOASIS CENTER INC: $12,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION: $7,780 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLittleton Symphony Orchestra: $7,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetNATIONS MINISTRY CENTER: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $6,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA WATERSHED CONSERVANCY INC: $6,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBELCOURT THEATRE INC: $6,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTH INTELLIGENCE NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetSILOAM HEALTH: $4,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE PRIDE CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetWALK BIKE NASHVILLE INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CONTRIBUTOR INC: $1,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetImpact100 Nashville: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNASHVILLE ACADEMY THEATRE AND NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOC: $1,000 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.

  • Who funds NASHVILLE BALLET ↗
  • Who funds CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO INC ↗
  • Who funds Redemption Road Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds Aura Home Women Vets ↗
  • Who funds Customized Veterans Group ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERA MEMPHIS INC ↗
  • Who funds CITIZEN JOURNALISM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE BALLET FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROBERT H JACKSON CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds OASIS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Littleton Symphony Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds NATIONS MINISTRY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE ↗
  • Who funds THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS ↗
  • Who funds CHAUTAUQUA WATERSHED CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds BELCOURT THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAUTAUQUA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗

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…Memorial Foundation I…Hca Healthcare Founda…The Frist FoundationPine Haven Foundation…The Steven & Laurie E…Vanderbilt UniversityThe Annette & Irwin E…The Blum Family Found…The Andrew Allen Char…Joe C Davis FoundationNashville Predators F…
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN22.2× affinity10 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 · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Pine Haven Foundation Trust Attn Kevin Crumbo · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Vanderbilt University · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation · The Andrew Allen Charitable Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · Nashville Predators 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 Crittenden Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Crittenden Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 62 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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