· Private foundation
Fort Foundation Tch
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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VANDERBILT CANCER CENTER | $30,900 |
| VANDERBILT CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $30,900 |
| ALIVE HOSPICE | $30,900 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH | $18,540 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $15,450 |
| UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $15,450 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $15,450 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY OF TN | $15,450 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $15,450 |
| TRAVELLERS REST MUSEUM | $15,450 |
| NASHVILLE SYMPHONY | $15,450 |
| WEST END UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $15,450 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $15,450 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF NASHVILLE | $15,450 |
| BEREA COLLEGE | $15,450 |
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 (FY20–25, $186k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
19 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AHALIVE HOSPICE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $186k · revenue +5%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH6× · 2020–2025 · $111k · revenue +53%
- TJTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF NASHVILLE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $93k · revenue +110%
Funded once
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.
See Disclosure Above.
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How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 19 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 ALIVE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF NASHVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds Nashville Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fort Foundation Tch funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fort Foundation Tch. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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