· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAYO CLINIC | $5,000 |
| GILDAS CLUB | $5,000 |
| DYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| YOUTH VILLAGES | $5,000 |
| SAFE HAVEN | $4,000 |
| GOODWILL FOUNDATION OF | $3,500 |
| HOMEWORK HOTLINE | $3,000 |
| SAMARITAN RECOVERY COMMUNITY | $3,000 |
| PENCIL | $3,000 |
| URBAN HOUSING SOLUTIONS | $3,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| PARK CENTER | $3,000 |
| HOLOCAUST & HUMANITY CENTER | $2,500 |
| SENIOR RIDE NASHVILLE | $2,500 |
| OASIS CENTER | $2,500 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
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 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.
Mental health cooperative inc. (mhc) provides integrated health services that include behavioral health care, primary health care, addiction services, and community-based care management. mhc also provides emergency psychiatric services…
Nashville cares exists to end the hiv epidemic, promote comprehensive sexual health and end sexual health stigmatization and discrimination through prevention, education, treatment, support, advocacy, and strategic partnership.
To empower adults with developmental disabilities by providing affordable housing, work that is meaningful and an inclusive community in which to live.
To empower individuals living with disabilities and challenges to gain independence
Provide needy families and individuals with rent and utilities assistance in order to prevent their eviction or termination of utility services. also provide food and other assistance to needy families and individuals.
Nashvillehealth creates a culture of health and wellbeing by serving as a convener to open dialogue, aligning resources and building smart strategic partnerships to create a plan for health unique to nashvilles needs.
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…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
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,…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 33 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 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fishel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fishel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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