Tennessee · Private foundation
Ebs 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.
- $453k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 172
- Grants FY2025
- 166
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 99 to 184
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 29
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Ebs Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k 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 | 170 | $449k | 3% |
| FY2024 | 166 | $368k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 184 | $308k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 160 | $384k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 146 | $524k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 99 | $511k | 15% |
| FY2019 | 146 | $522k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 131 | $450k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nashville Zoo Inc | $390,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Properties Trust | $200,000 | 2 | 34% |
| Senior Citizens Inc | $164,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art | $128,650 | 7 | 0% |
| Covenant Presbyterian Church | $85,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Lighthouse Christian Camp | $83,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Nashville Rescue Mission | $71,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Kipp Nashville | $70,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Cumberland Heights Foundation Inc | $51,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Operation Andrew Group Inc | $47,400 | 8 | 4% |
Show all 219 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 86 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ebs Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 189 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 Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Enchiridion Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn · Louise B Wallace Foundation 19702 · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Ebs Foundation
- How much does Ebs Foundation give?
- Ebs Foundation reported 172 grants totaling $453,275 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 99 and 184 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ebs Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (16%), Animals (12%), Religion (11%).
- Who are Ebs Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Nashville Zoo Inc ($391k), Properties Trust ($200k), Senior Citizens Inc ($165k).
- Does Ebs Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ebs 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 Ebs Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Memorial Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, The Frist Foundation.
- Where is Ebs Foundation based?
- Ebs Foundation is based in TN.
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