· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION | $3,000 |
| ROOM IN THE INN | $3,000 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $2,000 |
| OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE | $2,000 |
| ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND | $2,000 |
| SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER | $2,000 |
| BOYS TOWN | $2,000 |
| MID CUMBERLAND MEALS ON WHEELS | $2,000 |
| DISMAS HOUSE | $2,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SHOWER THE PEOPLE | $1,000 |
| YWCA | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NRNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION7× · 2018–2025 · $12k · revenue +37%
- LALEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND THE CUMBERLANDS5× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +44%
- RTREBUILDING TOGETHER NASHVILLE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $6k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- GGOODFELLOWSone grant, 2017 · $2k
- SJST JUDE RESEARCH HOSPITALone grant, 2020 · $2k
- FBFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLANDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +108%
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.
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.
Provide needy families and individuals with rent and utilities assistance in order to prevent their eviction or termination of utility services. also provide food and other assistance to needy families and individuals.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Our Mission at Welcome House Knoxville is to share the love of Jesus through the ministries of hospitality and friendship. We provide safe and loving homes for individuals and families in transition to permanent housing.
The mission of My Fathers House Nashville (MFHN) is to provide shelter, parenting education, recovery information and life skills for fathers transitioning out of institutional settings or homelessness.
Memphis union mission exists to glorify god and make disciples of jesus christ by ministering to the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of men and women who are homeless or destitute.
To meet the basic physical, spiritual, and social need of people in our area using the ministry of Jesus as a model.
Our mission is to lead our community by serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with help, hope, and healing, in the spirit of excellence, under the call of christ.
To reduce homelessness and improve family stability by increasing housing resources, administration of hud-mckinney vento funds, and support services through collaborative efforts with partner organizations, when available.
Rahab House is deeply committed to the rescue, refuge, and restoration of human trafficking survivors. We provide comprehensive support that encompasses immediate safety and connections to long-term restorative care in alignment with the…
The Mend House is a sober living community for men, in Knoxville, Tn. which empowers them to gain control over their actions, decisions and choices. The Mend House allows men to enjoy clean, sober and stable housing for up to 2 years while…
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.
The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND THE CUMBERLANDS ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER NASHVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds DISMAS INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds MID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds OPEN TABLE OF NASHVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds SHOWER THE PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds MT JULIET HELP CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds LUKE 14-12 ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TENNESSEE INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Deerfield Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Deerfield Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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