Tennessee · Private foundation
Eisen-Wald Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $131k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $55,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Eisen-Wald Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 22 | $131k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $130k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $129k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $129k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $120k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $109k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $109k | 9% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $106k | 9% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Behavioral Health Foundation | $48,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Nashville Symphony Association | $26,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Jewish Community Center of Nashville | $23,000 | 9 | 0% |
| University School of Nashville | $17,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $6,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Akiva School | $6,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Vanderbilt University | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Jewish Committee | $5,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Park Center Inc | $4,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Urban Housing Solutions Inc | $4,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($921k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Eisen-Wald 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: 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
How this is measured
About Eisen-Wald Foundation
- How much does Eisen-Wald Foundation give?
- Eisen-Wald Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $131,186 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Eisen-Wald Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (45%), Education (19%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Eisen-Wald Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Behavioral Health Foundation ($48k), Nashville Symphony Association ($27k), Jewish Community Center of Nashville ($23k).
- Does Eisen-Wald Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Eisen-Wald Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Eisen-Wald Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hca Healthcare Foundation, Memorial Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc.
- Where is Eisen-Wald Foundation based?
- Eisen-Wald Foundation is based in TN.
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