· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k163 grants · $215k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $138k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROPERTIES TRUST | $100,000 |
| CENTERSTONE | $30,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN CAMP | $25,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $20,000 |
| CHEEKWOOD | $17,500 |
| WOODMONT CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $13,000 |
| CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS | $12,000 |
| OPERATION ANDREW GROUP | $10,300 |
| NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| COVENANT SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| PRISON FELLOWSHIP | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| CANNONSLOOP MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $5,250 |
| HARDING ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $223k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
231 repeat relationships — 165 still active in FY2025, 66 since wound down; 5 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- NZNASHVILLE ZOO INC8× · 2018–2025 · $391k · revenue +51%
- SCSENIOR CITIZENS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $165k · revenue +38%
- CBCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART7× · 2019–2025 · $129k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- CBCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDENone grant, 2018 · $70k
Washington and Lee Universitygraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +54%- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The 60 Plus Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Freedom Watch Inc Center for Economic Justice. 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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
196 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. 196 of the 307 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 ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds PROPERTIES TRUST ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN CAMP ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds KIPP NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION ANDREW GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds Ambassadors for Christ International LTD ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds STARS NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SADDLE UP ↗
- Who funds THE COVENANT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE HUNDRED CLUB OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR HOMES aka Homes 4 Homes ↗
- Who funds HARDING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GILES COUNTY FIRE AND RESCUE 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 · 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
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 Ebs 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.