Tennessee · Private foundation
Gause 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.
- $123k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 75
- Grants FY2025
- 83
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 76 to 83
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $406k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Gause Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 74 | $121k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 83 | $127k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 76 | $127k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 80 | $101k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 78 | $111k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 81 | $78k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral | $114,200 | 6 | n/a |
| The Crossroads Campus | $26,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Grove Park Foundation Inc | $16,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Opera Memphis Inc | $15,100 | 3 | 1% |
| Nashville Opera Association | $14,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Nashville Symphony Association | $13,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Nashville Food Project Inc | $10,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Star C Corporation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Nations Ministry Center | $9,600 | 6 | 0% |
| Vanderbilt University | $9,600 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 93 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 67 recipients with no EIN on record ($193k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gause 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: Memorial Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn
How this is measured
About Gause Foundation
- How much does Gause Foundation give?
- Gause Foundation reported 75 grants totaling $122,550 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 76 and 83 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Gause Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (30%), Education (15%), Housing & Shelter (10%).
- Who are Gause Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral ($114k), The Crossroads Campus ($26k), Grove Park Foundation Inc ($16k).
- Does Gause Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gause Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gause Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Memorial Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, Hca Healthcare Foundation.
- Where is Gause Foundation based?
- Gause Foundation is based in TN.
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