· Private foundation
Fishel Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GILDAS CLUB | $5,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $5,000 |
| YOUTH VILLAGES | $5,000 |
| SAFE HAVEN | $4,000 |
| GOODWILL FOUNDATION OF | $3,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| SAMARITAN RECOVERY COMMUNITY | $3,000 |
| PARK CENTER | $3,000 |
| URBAN HOUSING SOLUTIONS | $3,000 |
| PENCIL | $3,000 |
| HOMEWORK HOTLINE | $3,000 |
| HOLOCAUST & HUMANITY CENTER | $2,500 |
| SENIOR RIDE NASHVILLE | $2,500 |
| OASIS CENTER | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
28 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
YOUTH VILLAGES INC5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +74%- PCPARK CENTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +83%
- PFPENCIL FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- GCGILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TENNESSEEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +81%
- UUSNone grant, 2021 · $1k
- SJST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCHone grant, 2024 · $1k
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 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.
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To empower individuals living with disabilities and challenges to gain independence
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The tennessee justice center (tjc) advocates on behalf of low-income tennesseans in areas of public policy having the greatest impact on their health and welfare.
Our mission is to improve the lives of persons living with mental health challenges by advocating for improved public policy, educating health service providers, and connecting individuals to the right help at the right time.
To provide accessible affordable, holistic healthcare to patients across the lifespan with a special focus on vulnerable populations, within a financially sustainable delivery model. further, uchs supports health professions education,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oasis Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Heimerdinger Foundation 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 34 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 33 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 DYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION INC DBA FAMILIAL DYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds PARK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWORK HOTLINE INC ↗
- Who funds PENCIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OASIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ABE'S GARDEN ↗
- Who funds The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education ↗
- Who funds URBAN HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Samaritan Recovery Community Inc ↗
- Who funds SENIOR RIDE NASHVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds Book Em ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds The Heimerdinger Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NEW BEGINNINGS CENTER ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT 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 · The Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Eisen-Wald Foundation · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation · The Blum Family 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 Fishel Family 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.