· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 53% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 108 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.
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Greater Nashville Funding funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Nashville Funding. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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