· Public charity
Greater Nashville Funding
To facilitate and provide opportunities & financial assistance for families & children to participate in educational and recreational activities through created programs and other qualified nonprofit institutions.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 75 grants below total $1,523,406 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,637,781 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,114,375 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $267k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $606k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $345k
- $250k+1 grant · $306k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOWLING GREEN CHEERNASTICS LLC | $306,292 |
| MIDDLE TENNESSEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $83,794 |
| TNSTARS COLLEGE SAVINGS 529 PROGRAM | $81,872 |
| EF EDUCATIONAL TOURS | $68,188 |
| DANCE WORKS | $57,593 |
| PREMIER ATHLETICS MURFREESBORO | $53,376 |
| FIDELITY INVESTMENTS | $43,865 |
| ALL STARZ DANCE ACADEMY | $43,643 |
| EXPLORICA BY WORLDSTRIDES | $37,280 |
| TULLAHOMA GYMNASTICS & CHEER | $31,806 |
| ROCKSTAR ACADEMY OF DANCE | $26,881 |
| EF GO AHEAD TOURS | $25,219 |
| STEWARTS CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL CHEER | $24,911 |
| FUTURE PATH 529 PLAN | $24,385 |
| HENDERSONVILLE HIGH SCHOOL | $24,217 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 53% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 62 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, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
- MTMIDDLE TENNESSEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL2× · 2024–2025 · $148k · revenue +12%
- CACARPE ARTISTA INC2× · 2024–2025 · $23k · revenue 0%
- FRFRANKLIN ROAD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL2× · 2024–2025 · $17k
Funded once
- CCHEERVILLEone grant, 2024 · $268k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $69k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $44k
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.
Provide a distinctly Christ-centered, biblical and classical education producing students who glorify God in their thoughts, words and deeds.
Cincinnati christian schools, partnering with christian families, provides a bible-centered, quality educational program to equip, train, and disciple students to follow christ and impact culture.
The king's academy is a christ-centered school that inspires academic excellence, servant leadership, and enduring relationships.
Fayetteville academy is an independent, college preparatory school (prek- 12) that encourages students to achieve their full potential by offering exceptional opportunities in academics, fine arts, and athletics. the academy emphasizes…
To glorify god by providing students the highest quality college- preparatory education, training them in the biblical world and life view, thus enabling them to serve god in spirit, mind, and body
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
Equipping students to serve and glorify God. GCCS offers a Christ-centered education that is grounded in faith, connected through relationships, committed to excellence and prepared for service.
Education - grades 3k through 12th grade
Enrichment and enhancement of athletic programs at centennial high school in franklin, tn
Our mission: the winsor school prepares young women to pursue their aspirations and contribute to the world.
Bluegrass christian academy partners with families to educate students in the classical tradition and form then into god-honoring people who grow in wisdom, virtue and service to others through the entirety of their lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbia Academy and the most unlike its peers is Cast Show Troupe Nfp. 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 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 28% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
16 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. 16 of the 108 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.
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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Greater Nashville Funding 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.
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