· Private foundation
Dettwiller 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k96 grants · $2.0M
- $50k–250k35 grants · $3.5M
- $250k+14 grants · $8.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TPAC | $2,000,000 |
| NASHVILLE SYMPHONY | $1,000,000 |
| NASHVILLE POLICE & PUBLIC SAFETY ALLIANCE | $1,000,000 |
| CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS | $1,000,000 |
| CENTERSTONE | $1,000,000 |
| YMCA | $375,000 |
| GILDA'S CLUB OF MIDDLE TN | $333,333 |
| Individual grant recipient | $333,333 |
| NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| FRIENDS OF WARNER PARKS | $250,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MIDDLE TN | $250,000 |
| WO SMITH MUSIC SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| YWCA | $250,000 |
| NASHVILLE SYMPHONY | $250,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $223,958 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $877k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
70 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 91 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NSNashville Symphony Association6× · 2019–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +21%
- COCENTERSTONE OF TENNESSEE INC3× · 2021–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +59%
- NPNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $295k · revenue +294%
Funded once
- STSEWANEE THE UNVERSITY OF THE SOUTHone grant, 2018 · $1.0M
- MNMETRO NASHVILLE POLICE SUPPORT FUNDone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- IINSPIRITUSone grant, 2023 · $250k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Park center has been serving nashville for over 40 years, providing a place for hope and recovery for people experiencing serious mental illness, homelessness, and addiction. we meet people where they are and provide support through…
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…
Girls write nashville empowers expression through songwriting, production, mentorship and creative community for teen artists. we are an artist and educator-led 501(c)(3) creative youth development program in nashville, tn allied with…
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.
Lead our community's efforts to house, support, empower and advocate for families experiencing homelessness.
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…
Nashville inner city ministry is a christ-centered community organization dedicated to empowering the spiritual, educational and vocational development of at-risk youth and their families.
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.
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.
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.
Open table of nashville is a non-profit, interfaith, community that disrupts the cycles of poverty, journeys with the marginalized and provides education about issues of homelessness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mending Hearts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tennessee Titans Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
122 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 122 of the 209 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Nashville Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds CENTERSTONE OF TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE POLICE & PUBLIC SAFETY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds WO SMITH NASHVILLE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds MEN OF VALOR ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE NEW BEGINNINGS CENTER ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING COALITION ↗
- Who funds ANCORATN FKA END SLAVERY TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIST ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON NASHVILLE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Joe C Davis Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Carolyn Smith Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Dettwiller Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.