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Daily Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$75k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$275kRecreation & Sports$191kHealth$187kEducation$119kArts & Culture$75kHuman Services$75kCommunity Improvement$40kAnimals$32kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$35,000
TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY$10,000
EQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION$10,000
SB INITIATIVE INC$9,500
NASHVILLE SYMPHONY$5,000
BIG SKY SNO$5,000
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 (FY17–20, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOMEN IN ACTION: $1k → 10%JAKE OWEN FOUNDATION: $5k → 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

MT
NY
MA
OH
CA
MD
TN
GA
TX
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.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$358k · 15 repeat orgs$616k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +50% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
20

Total granted

$358k
$611k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+50%

Still filing today

87%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentHuman 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

  • EC
    EQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +26%
  • CB
    CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART
    5× · 2017–2023 · $39k · revenue +52%
  • NS
    Nashville Symphony Association
    6× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • E
    ENSWORTH
    one grant, 2019 · $119k
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -81%
  • CF
    Congaree Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +46%
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
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
3
Tenngreen Land Conservancy

The organization's primary mission is conserving land where people and nature can thrive by creating green corridors linking existing public lands using conservation easments and outright purchase.

Recreation & Sports
4
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
5
Greenways for Nashville Inc

Greenways for nashville promotes, supports, and enhances a system of greenways and open space in nashville and davidson county.

Recreation & Sports
6
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

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

Environment
7
Roane County Medical Center

Roane County Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
8
Journey Health Foundation

Convene passionate, collaborative partners to help build bold, data-driven systems and solutions that promote healthy communities for all

Human Services
9
Smokies Life

The smokies life supports the perpetual preservation of the great smoky mountains national park and the national park system by promoting greater public understanding and appreciation through education, interpretation, and research.

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10
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.

Health
11
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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12
Tennessee Performing Arts Center (Tpac) Management Corporation

To provide facilities, services, and programs of the highest quality for the greatest benefit of the people, institutions, and communities of the state, and to take a leadership role in fostering the performing arts, arts education,…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee; the most unlike its peers is Jake Owen Foundation. 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

30 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. 30 of the 38 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
23/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ENSWORTH: $118,820 · OtherENSWORTHGILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TN: $70,000 · OtherGILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TNIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUS WOMEN'S AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP: $50,000 · OtherUS WOMEN'S AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIPAMERICAN RED CROSS: $30,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSTHE ENSWORTH FUND: $20,000 · OtherRILEY'S URGENT FUND FOR FRIENDS: $30,000 · OtherRILEY'S URGENT FUND FOR FRIENDSFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $20,000 · OtherMEN OF VALOR: $15,000 · Other+9 more: $31,000 · Other+9 moreYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $240,000 · PhilanthropyYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMU…+1 more: $4,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER …SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $22,000 · HealthSEXUAL ASSAULT C…FAMILY REACH FOUNDATION: $21,250 · HealthFAMILY REACH FOU…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $16,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNI…Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $15,000 · HealthVanderbilt Unive…THE RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE RELEASE RECO…+1 more: $2,000 · HealthCongaree Foundation: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentCongaree F…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND G…CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $38,500 · Arts & CultureCHEEKWOOD …Nashville Symphony Association: $24,730 · Arts & CultureNashville …SB INITIATIVE INC: $24,500 · Arts & CultureSB INITIAT…TENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION: $21,200 · Arts & CultureTENNESSEE …FRIST ART MUSEUM: $7,000 · Arts & CultureFRIST ART …EQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION: $90,000 · EducationEQUAL CHAN…TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $13,000 · EducationTREVECCA N…Vanderbilt University: $10,000 · EducationVanderbilt…SPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40,145 · Community Improvement
Other$434,820Philanthropy$244,000Health$186,250Youth Development$120,000Arts & Culture$115,930Education$113,000Community Improvement$40,145

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 budgetYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $240,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCongaree Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetEQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION: $90,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetSPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40,145 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $38,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRILEY'S URGENT FUND FOR FRIENDS: $30,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetNashville Symphony Association: $24,730 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSB INITIATIVE INC: $24,500 over 2y, 23% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $22,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY REACH FOUNDATION: $21,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION: $21,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEN OF VALOR: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIST ART MUSEUM: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Golf Club of Tennessee Scholarship Fund: $6,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF BIG SKY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBIG SKY SNO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetJake Owen Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL PANCREAS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELLNESS IN ACTION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGallatin River Task Force: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Community Foundat…Moonlight Community F…The Frist FoundationHca Healthcare Founda…The Rieschel Foundati…Yellowstone Club Comm…Dettwiller FoundationRaymond James Charita…Dorothy Cate and Thom…Memorial Foundation I…Servant FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN22.8× 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 · Moonlight Community Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Rieschel Foundation · Yellowstone Club Community Foundation · Dettwiller Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · American Endowment 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 Daily Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Daily Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 38 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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