Tennessee · Private foundation
Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist 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.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 330
- Grants FY2024
- 201
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 170 to 231
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 17
- Total assets, FY2024
- $39M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $223k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 205 | $1.9M | 5% |
| FY2023 | 201 | $2.1M | 7% |
| FY2022 | 231 | $2.3M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 211 | $1.8M | 9% |
| FY2020 | 191 | $1.7M | 13% |
| FY2019 | 185 | $2.3M | 14% |
| FY2018 | 173 | $1.7M | 13% |
| FY2017 | 170 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nashville Zoo Inc | $1,078,750 | 8 | 1% |
| The Ensworth School | $916,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Bridge Ministry Inc | $809,500 | 8 | n/a |
| United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc | $766,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Martha O'Bryan Center Inc | $721,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Montgomery Bell Academy of the University of Nashville | $353,500 | 8 | 0% |
| First Presbyterian Church | $323,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Inc Fd Breeden Tua | $295,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Abe's Garden | $271,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Upward Intuition Inc | $260,000 | 2 | 91% |
Show all 246 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 82 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Memorial Foundation Inc · The Frist Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Joe C Davis Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Nashville Predators Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn · Carolyn Smith Foundation · Dettwiller Foundation
How this is measured
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About Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation
- How much does Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation give?
- Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation reported 330 grants totaling $2,650,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 170 and 231 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (28%), Religion (15%), Education (14%).
- Who are Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Nashville Zoo Inc ($1.1M), The Ensworth School ($916k), The Bridge Ministry Inc ($810k).
- Does Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist 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 Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Memorial Foundation Inc, The Frist Foundation, Hca Healthcare Foundation.
- Where is Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation based?
- Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation is based in TN.
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