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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 FY2025still arriving
172
Grants FY2025still arriving
29
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$564kAnimals$414kReligion$392kHealth$351kYouth Development$277kArts & Culture$241kPhilanthropy$214kCommunity Improvement$202kOther$0
02FY2025 · 172 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k163 grants · $215k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $138k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$1,000
Median grant
29
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYS TOWN: $700 → 12%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 9%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $550 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS: $1k → 16%YOUTH VILLAGES: $1k → 17%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $500 → 26%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 9%YOUTH VILLAGES: $1k → 17%FAMILY ACTION COUNCIL OF TENNESSEE: $1k → 4%FAMILY ACTION COUNCIL OF TENNESSEE: $1k → 4%ALLIANCE FOR LAW & LIBERTY: $700 → 4%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $3k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $2k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $2k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $1k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $1k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $1k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $1k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $1k → 14%MUR-CI HOMES: $1k → 14%MUR-CI HOMES: $1k → 14%MID CUMBERLAND MEALS ON WHEELS: $1k → 14%MID CUMBERLAND MEALS ON WHEELS: $700 → 14%MID CUMBERLAND MEALS ON WHEELS: $600 → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $52k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $52k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $50k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $3k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $2k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $2k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $2k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $2k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRY INC: $2k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRY INC: $2k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $1k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRY INC: $1k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRY INC: $1k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRY INC: $1k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRY INC: $1k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRY INC: $1k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRY INC: $1k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $900 → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $900 → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $900 → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $750 → 14%MAKE A WISH MIDDLE TN: $1k → 14%MAKE A WISH MIDDLE TN: $600 → 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

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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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 231 repeat orgs$138k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

231
69

Total granted

$3.4M
$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+1%

Still filing today

65%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureReligionPublic BenefitOther
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× · 2018–2025 · $391k · revenue +51%
  • SC
    SENIOR CITIZENS INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $165k · revenue +38%
  • CB
    CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART
    7× · 2019–2025 · $129k · revenue +152%

Funded once

  • CB
    CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN
    one grant, 2018 · $70k
  • Washington and Lee Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +54%
  • BS
    BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.

1
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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4
Partnership for Public Service Inc

Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…

Employment
5
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
6
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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7
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
8
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
9
American Constitution Society for Law & Policy

The american constitution society for law and policy (acs) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan legal organization. through a diverse nationwide network of progressive lawyers, law students, judges, scholars, advocates, and many others,…

Education
10
National Veterans Legal Services Program Inc

To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.

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11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
National Cable Satellite Corporation

Provide the public access to the live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of both houses of the us congress, and other forums where public policy is discussed, debated, and decided - all without editing, commentary or analysis and with a balanced…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The 60 Plus Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

196 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
44
Early backer (in before they grew)
189/196
Grantees still filing
141/196
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS: $231,450 · OtherCUMBERLAND HEIGHTSVANDERBILT MEDICAL CENTER: $202,250 · OtherVANDERBILT MEDICAL CENTERPROPERTIES TRUST: $200,000 · OtherPROPERTIES TRUSTCENTERSTONE: $185,500 · OtherCENTERSTONEBOY SCOUTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $110,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $106,000 · OtherCOVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $85,500 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN CAMP: $83,000 · Other+122 more: $987,465 · Other+122 moreNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $390,500 · AnimalsNASHVILLE ZOO…+4 more: $19,350 · AnimalsCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $128,650 · Arts & CultureTENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $19,950 · Arts & CultureNashville Symphony Association: $13,800 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN VALUES: $12,500 · Arts & CultureTENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION: $9,500 · Arts & CultureCENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $8,500 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $29,725 · Arts & CultureSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $164,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $12,000 · Human ServicesSALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · Human Services+12 more: $34,450 · Human ServicesKIPP NASHVILLE: $70,500 · EducationTHE COVENANT SCHOOL: $18,000 · EducationHARDING ACADEMY: $16,000 · EducationEPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE: $14,000 · EducationWashington and Lee University: $10,100 · EducationBRENTWOOD ACADEMY: $8,500 · Education+9 more: $31,250 · EducationOPERATION ANDREW GROUP INC: $47,400 · ReligionAmbassadors for Christ International LTD: $42,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $24,000 · ReligionPrecept: $10,800 · ReligionAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $7,600 · Religion+6 more: $14,500 · ReligionCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $51,500 · HealthSTARS NASHVILLE: $27,700 · HealthSADDLE UP: $19,600 · HealthSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $7,500 · HealthHOPE CLINIC FOR WOMEN: $5,500 · Health+5 more: $14,350 · Health
Other$2,191,165Animals$409,850Arts & Culture$222,625Human Services$220,950Education$168,350Religion$146,300Health$126,150

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $390,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetPROPERTIES TRUST: $200,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $164,500 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $128,650 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN CAMP: $83,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $71,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP NASHVILLE: $70,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $51,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION ANDREW GROUP INC: $47,400 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetAmbassadors for Christ International LTD: $42,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $40,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $30,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSTARS NASHVILLE: $27,700 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC: $24,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $24,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $19,950 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSADDLE UP: $19,600 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $18,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUNDRED CLUB OF NASHVILLE: $18,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE COVENANT SCHOOL: $18,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOMES FOR HOMES aka Homes 4 Homes: $17,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetHARDING ACADEMY: $16,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGILES COUNTY FIRE AND RESCUE INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetEPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE: $14,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNashville Symphony Association: $13,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetStudents for Life of America Inc: $13,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARY: $13,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN VALUES: $12,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHOMES FOR VETERANS INC: $12,500 over 6y, 83% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $12,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJONI AND FRIENDS: $11,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPrecept: $10,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetANTIQUES & GARDEN SHOW OF NASHVILLE INC: $10,140 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $10,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetOPERATION FINALLY HOME: $9,975 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION: $9,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTroops Direct: $9,100 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $8,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBRENTWOOD ACADEMY: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $7,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $7,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $7,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetROCKETOWN OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS TENNESSEE INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTEAM BLUELINE INC: $6,650 over 7y, 0.2% 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 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 CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE HUNDRED CLUB OF NASHVILLE ↗
  • Who funds THE COVENANT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HOMES FOR HOMES aka Homes 4 Homes ↗
  • Who funds HARDING ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds GILES COUNTY FIRE AND RESCUE 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 Community Foundat…The Frist FoundationHca Healthcare Founda…Dorothy Cate and Thom…Farrell Family Founda…United Way of Middle …Enchiridion FoundationThe Wade-Buntin Famil…Louie M & Betty M Phi…Louise B Wallace Foun…The Steven & Laurie E…
Memorial Foundation IncTN78.4× affinity38 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Ebs Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ebs Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
36report 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.

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 307 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home