Tennessee · Private foundation
Deerfield Charitable 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.
- $31k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $38k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Deerfield Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $31k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $32k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $22k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $15k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $17k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $11k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $9k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $9k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nashville Rescue Mission | $12,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Room in the Inn Inc | $9,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands | $7,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Rebuilding Together Nashville Inc | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Dismas Inc | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Wounded Warriors Family Support Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Operation Stand Down Tennessee | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Guiding Eyes for the Blind Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Mid-Cumberland Human Resource Agency | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($60k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Deerfield Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Boulevard Bolt Inc · Carolyn Smith Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Nashville Predators Foundation · McCauley-Lindsay Charities of Tenn · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Deerfield Charitable Foundation
- How much does Deerfield Charitable Foundation give?
- Deerfield Charitable Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $31,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Deerfield Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Housing & Shelter (23%), Health (17%).
- Who are Deerfield Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Nashville Rescue Mission ($12k), Room in the Inn Inc ($9k), Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands ($7k).
- Does Deerfield Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Deerfield Charitable Foundation 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 Deerfield Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hca Healthcare Foundation, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation.
- Where is Deerfield Charitable Foundation based?
- Deerfield Charitable Foundation is based in TN.
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