· Private foundation
Eisen-Wald Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MARY INSTITUTE AND SAINT LOUIS | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE | $2,500 |
| TEMPLE BETH-EL | $2,436 |
| CASA INC DAVIDSON CO | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +53% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds EDGEHILL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP ↗
- 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 SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Eisen-Wald Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eisen-Wald Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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