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Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
330
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$5.5MReligion$3.0MEducation$2.7MHuman Services$1.7MAnimals$1.1MHealth$1.1MHousing & Shelter$948kArts & Culture$947kOther$0
02FY2024 · 330 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k257 grants · $618k
  • $10k–50k59 grants · $918k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
$2,500
Median grant
17
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NASHVILLE ZOO AT GRASSMERE$200,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$186,500
UPWARD INTUITION INC$110,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER NASHVILLE$70,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$60,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$60,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$60,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$59,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$59,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$50,000
HOPE THROUGH HEALING HANDS$50,000
ABE'S GARDEN$50,000
NACOME$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION$50,000
WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$48,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $847k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LOVE FROM MUSIC CITY: $170k → 8%LOVE IS A GIFT INCORPORATED: $50k → 10%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $20k → 16%LOVE IS A GIFT INCORPORATED: $50k → 10%LOVE FROM MUSIC CITY: $5k → 8%END SLAVERY TENNESSEE: $5k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $8k → 14%PROJECT REDESIGN: $5k → 14%THE FAMILY CENTER: $5k → 14%THE FAMILY CENTER: $5k → 14%THE FAMILY CENTER: $5k → 14%EXCHANGE CLUB FAMILY CENTER: $5k → 14%THE FAMILY CENTER: $5k → 14%EXCHANGE CLUB FAMILY CENTER: $5k → 14%THE FAMILY CENTER: $5k → 14%THE FAMILY CENTER: $5k → 14%CORNER TO CORNER: $5k → 14%PROGRESS INC: $10k → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $5k → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 14%LOVE IS A GIFT INCORPORATED: $85k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $10k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $10k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $10k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $10k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $7k → 14%FIFTYFORWARD: $5k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $5k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $5k → 14%ROOFTOP FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%FIFTYFORWARD: $5k → 14%ROOFTOP FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%FIFTYFORWARD: $5k → 14%FIFTYFORWARD: $5k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $5k → 14%FIFTYFORWARD: $5k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $5k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $5k → 14%OPERATION STAND DOWN: $5k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $5k → 14%WAYNE REED CHRISTIAN CHILDCARE CENTER: $25k → 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

AK
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
NJ
CA
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in TN; by stated purpose, 82%.

Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 254 repeat orgs$897k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

254 repeat relationships: 195 still active in FY2024, 59 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

254
64

Total granted

$14M
$786k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+37%

Still filing today

70%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • NZ
    NASHVILLE ZOO INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +23%
  • TE
    THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $916k · revenue +47%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $766k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • MN
    METROPOLITAN NASHVILLE BOARD OF PARKS & RECREATION
    one grant, 2019 · $398k
  • LI
    LOVE IS A GIFT INCORPORATED CO O'NEIL HAGAMAN LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • RH
    RESTORING HOPE CHURCH INC
    one grant, 2019 · $60k
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.

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Tennessee Health Care Association

To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.

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2
Nashville Public Media Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Tennessee Charitable Care Network

The mission of tccn is to support, educate, and represent non-profit organizations that provide charitable healthcare services to low-income, uninsured, and underserved tennesseans. tccn envisions a strong, compassionate healthcare safety…

Health
4
Leadership Tennessee Inc

Leadership tennessee fosters collaborative, non-partisan dialogue on issues of state importance, by connecting and deploying a network of diverse leaders and engaged citizens.

Public Benefit
5
Northeast Tenn Assoc of Realtors

Our mission is to serve our members through education, professionalism, and legislative involvement

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6
Impacthealth-Tn

To foster a sustainable network of community health workers and to train frontline public health professionals who possess a deep understanding of and strong ties to the local community.

Human Services
7
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland 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 the patient's ability to pay.

Health
8
Tennessee Homeless Solutions

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.

Housing & Shelter
9
Tennessee Clean Water Network

To identify, prevent, and remedy water pollution statewide through a network of allies and resources.

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10
Nashville Technology Council

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.

Community Improvement
11
New Level Community Development Corporation

New level community development corporation advocates for low-to-moderate income community by working with legislators, other non-profits, and private developers to create more affordable homes in nashville.

Community Improvement
12
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is Craig County Rescue Squad- Ems Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

237 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. 237 of the 333 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)
87
Early backer (in before they grew)
230/237
Grantees still filing
183/237
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $932,500 · OtherWESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHTHE BRIDGE MINISTRY INC: $809,500 · OtherTHE BRIDGE MINISTRY INCMETROPOLITAN NASHVILLE BOARD OF PARKS & RECREATION: $398,000 · OtherCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS: $354,500 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $323,500 · OtherLOUISVILLE PRESBYTERIAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC FD BREEDEN TUA: $295,000 · OtherABE'S GARDEN: $271,000 · Other+123 more: $4,553,493 · Other+123 moreTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $4,494,180 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDD…UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $766,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE I…HOPE THROUGH HEALING HANDS: $225,500 · Philanthropy+5 more: $130,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL: $916,000 · EducationTHE ENSWORTH …MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE: $353,500 · EducationMONTGOMERY BE…UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…HARDING ACADEMY: $162,500 · EducationHARDING ACADE…MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $143,000 · EducationMIDDLE TENNES…Vanderbilt University: $91,000 · EducationHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $81,000 · EducationAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN GROWTH FUND INC: $75,000 · Education+10 more: $216,040 · Education+10 moreNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $1,078,750 · Animals+1 more: $9,500 · AnimalsLOVE IS A GIFT INC: $185,000 · Human ServicesLOVE FROM MUSIC CITY CORPORATION: $175,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273): $119,500 · Human ServicesST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $58,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $48,000 · Human ServicesROOFTOP FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY CENTER INC: $40,000 · Human Services+14 more: $233,500 · Human ServicesMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC: $721,000 · ReligionSCORE INTERNATIONAL INC: $89,000 · ReligionNATIONS MINISTRY CENTER: $52,000 · Religion+1 more: $14,000 · ReligionFRIST ART MUSEUM: $164,000 · Arts & CultureHERITAGE FOUNDATION OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY: $96,300 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $80,000 · Arts & CultureTENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $75,657 · Arts & CultureCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $75,000 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $54,500 · Arts & CultureTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC: $51,000 · Arts & CultureCOUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL STORYTELLING CENTER: $35,000 · Arts & CultureNashville Symphony Association: $35,000 · Arts & CultureBELLE MEADE MANSION: $31,500 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $89,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$7,937,493Philanthropy$5,615,680Education$2,238,040Animals$1,088,250Human Services$899,000Religion$876,000Arts & Culture$826,957

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $4,494,180 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $1,078,750 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL: $916,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $766,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC: $721,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE: $353,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetABE'S GARDEN: $271,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUPWARD INTUITION INC: $260,000 over 2y, 91% of budgetHOPE THROUGH HEALING HANDS: $225,500 over 7y, 96% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLOVE IS A GIFT INC: $185,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetNASHVILLEHEALTH: $175,000 over 4y, 31% of budgetFRIST ART MUSEUM: $164,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHARDING ACADEMY: $162,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSILOAM HEALTH: $160,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $143,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273): $119,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $113,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $110,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetLwala Community Alliance: $97,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetHERITAGE FOUNDATION OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY: $96,300 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetVanderbilt University: $91,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSCORE INTERNATIONAL INC: $89,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $81,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC: $79,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NEXT DOOR INC: $78,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $75,657 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $75,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN GROWTH FUND INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $68,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER HOME CONNECTION: $65,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $61,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $58,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $54,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTIME TO RISE INC: $53,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetNATIONS MINISTRY CENTER: $52,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC: $51,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $48,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMCNEILLY CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $47,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ISAACS FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING WESTERN VIRGINIA: $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $44,540 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetNASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC: $40,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCOUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetROOFTOP FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetNASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE ↗
  • Who funds ABE'S GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds UPWARD INTUITION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE THROUGH HEALING HANDS ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOVE IS A GIFT INC ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLEHEALTH ↗
  • Who funds LOVE FROM MUSIC CITY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIST ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds HARDING ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds SILOAM HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
  • Who funds FAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Lwala Community Alliance ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds SCORE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
  • Who funds DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEXT DOOR 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.

Memorial Foundation I…The Frist FoundationHca Healthcare Founda…United Way of Middle …Joe C Davis FoundationThe Community Foundat…The Healing Trust For…Nashville Predators F…The Steven & Laurie E…Louie M & Betty M Phi…Carolyn Smith Foundat…Dettwiller Foundation
Memorial Foundation IncTN188× affinity98 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • The Children's Home Society of Florida: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
71report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 333 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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