Tennessee · Private foundation
Eden 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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 65
- Grants FY2024
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,800
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $811,946
- Organizations funded a year
- 55 to 66
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Eden Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k 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 | 62 | $1.2M | 34% |
| FY2023 | 65 | $714k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 66 | $460k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $405k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 66 | $508k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akiva School | $218,200 | 5 | 3% |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | $202,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Jewish Community Center of Nashville | $95,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Senior Citizens Inc | $43,686 | 5 | 0% |
| Vanderbilt University | $29,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Belmont University | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University School of Nashville | $11,700 | 4 | 0% |
| Frist Art Museum | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Nashville Public Radio | $5,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Country Music Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akiva School | $218,200 | 5 | 3% |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | $202,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Jewish Community Center of Nashville | $95,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Senior Citizens Inc | $43,686 | 5 | 0% |
| Vanderbilt University | $29,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Belmont University | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University School of Nashville | $11,700 | 4 | 0% |
| Frist Art Museum | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Nashville Public Radio | $5,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Country Music Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Tennessee Innocence Project | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Alive Hospice Inc | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Nashville Public Television Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Youth Villages Inc | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Ensworth School | $1,750 | 3 | 0% |
| The Tennessee Holocaust Commission Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Nashville Symphony Association | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Council of Jewish Women Nashville Section | $680 | 1 | 1% |
| Nashville Ballet | $600 | 1 | 0% |
| Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Harpeth Hall School | $250 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 130 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Eden Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Doochin Family Charitable Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation · The Joel C & Bernice W Gordon Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Eisen-Wald Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Irvin and Beverly Small Foundation
How this is measured
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About Eden Foundation
- How much does Eden Foundation give?
- Eden Foundation reported 65 grants totaling $1,210,796 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 66 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Eden Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (38%), Religion (19%), Education (10%).
- Who are Eden Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Akiva School ($218k), Vanderbilt University Medical Center ($203k), Jewish Community Center of Nashville ($95k).
- Does Eden Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Eden 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 Eden Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation, Memorial Foundation Inc, Doochin Family Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Eden Foundation based?
- Eden Foundation is based in TN.
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