· Private foundation
Eisen-Wald Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $42k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF NASHVILLE & | $55,500 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF NASHVILLE | $11,500 |
| THE TEMPLE | $10,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY - BERNARD | $10,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY - ANN F | $10,000 |
| BEHAVIORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| ABE'S GARDEN COMMUNITY | $4,000 |
| NASHVILLE SYMPHONY | $3,500 |
| GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE | $2,500 |
| MARY INSTITUTE AND SAINT LOUIS | $2,500 |
| TEMPLE BETH-EL | $2,436 |
| CASA INC DAVIDSON CO | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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 +70% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 98% 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
- NSNashville Symphony Association9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +29%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NASHVILLE9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +34%
- USUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE7× · 2019–2025 · $18k · revenue +21%
Funded once
Vanderbilt Universitygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +74%- VUVANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICALone grant, 2017 · $3k
- AADLone grant, 2022 · $750
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.
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 & business council of greater nashville supports and promotes the arts by driving collaboration between arts and business that contribute to the creativity, vitality, and prosperity of greater nashville/the regions/the city.
In fulfillment of our mission to inspire a culture of understanding and discovery of our natural world through conservation, innovation and leadership, our goal is to build a first class zoo for middle tennessee and to develop a facility…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Nashville bar association is organized to improve the practice of law through education, service & fellowship
To ensure accessible early childhood education for all families in the greater nashville area.
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.
The neighborhood reinvestment corporation (d.b.a neighborworks america) is a congressionally chartered public non-profit corporation that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen…
Our mission is to serve our members through education, professionalism, and legislative involvement
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…
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.
Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Public Radio and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 56 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
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 Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AKIVA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds PARK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds EDGEHILL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds MCNEILLY CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Tennessee Holocaust Commission Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER 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: Hca Healthcare Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Blum Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Patricia and Rodes Hart Foundation · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Eden Foundation · Doochin Family Charitable 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 Eisen-Wald 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.
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.