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Hearn Charitable 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.

$217k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$147k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$398kHealth$197kMembership Benefit$44kYouth Development$23kFood & Nutrition$19kReligion$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kHuman Services$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $52k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $147k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$540k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NASHVILLE SYMPHONY$147,000
NASHVILLE WINE AUCTION$22,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS-TIFFANY CIRCLE$10,000
NASHVILLE BALLET$10,000
THE NEW BEGINNINGS CENTER$10,000
THE NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE$5,000
BAREFOOT REPUBLIC INC$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,500
DESTIN CHARITY WINE AUCTION FOUNDATION$3,500
FRIENDS OF WARNER PARK$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE MATTIE KELLY ARTS FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%THE MATTIE KELLY ARTS FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%FIFTY FORWARD: $2k → 4%THE ARC OF THE EMERALD COAST: $2k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
IA
CA
AZ
AR
TN
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$685k · 14 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
25

Total granted

$685k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+55%

Still filing today

93%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationReligionFood & NutritionOther

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

  • NS
    Nashville Symphony Association
    9× · 2017–2025 · $250k · revenue +29%
  • NW
    Nashville Wine Auction
    8× · 2017–2025 · $167k · revenue +364%
  • NR
    NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • CM
    CHRISTIAN MUSIC BROADCASTERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +62%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Nashville Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville Inc

Arts & business council of greater nashville supports and promotes the arts by driving collaboration between arts and business that contribute to the creativity, vitality, and prosperity of greater nashville/the regions/the city.

Crime & Legal
3
Girls Write Nashville

Girls write nashville empowers expression through songwriting, production, mentorship and creative community for teen artists. we are an artist and educator-led 501(c)(3) creative youth development program in nashville, tn allied with…

Arts & Culture
4
Nashville Public Media Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Nashville Blues and Roots Alliance
Arts & Culture
6
Nashville Technology Council

Ntc mission is to advance the diverse technology ecosystem by connecting and promoting members, attracting, growing and retaining tech talent, and providing opportunities to reinvest in the greater nashville community.

Community Improvement
7
The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans

The tennessee williams theatre company of new orleans is a year-round professional theatre company committed to producing captivating, exciting, and moving plays with a major focus on the works of america's greatest playwright, tennessee…

Arts & Culture
8
Theatre Memphis

To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
9
Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau

The mission of the NCVB is to maximize the economic contribution of the hospitality industry to the total community by developing and marketing Nashville as a premier domestic and international destination for visitors. This is the second…

Community Improvement
10
Nashville Songwriters Association International

The nashville songwriters association international (nsai) consists of a body of creative minds, including songwriters from all genres of music, professional and amateur, who are committed to protecting the rights and future of the…

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11
Nashville Cares

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.

Health
12
Nashville Film Festival

To promote or showcase independent and student films and film makers through an annual film festival.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Repertory Theatre Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gospel Music Trust Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPerforming Arts Organizatio…Historic Preservation & Her…Nashville Student Success I…Pediatric Cancer SupportChristian Evangelical Minis…Substance Abuse & Recovery …Faith-Based Community Servi…Music Industry Trade & Advo…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr15%7%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr11%14%35–55yr14%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%38%20–35yr11%7%35–55yr14%43%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
12%
1,026/8,250

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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 41 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
28/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Nashville Symphony Association — $249,800 · Arts & CultureNashville Symphony AssociationNASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $46,616 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INCCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART — $39,000 · Arts & CultureCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ARTNASHVILLE BALLET — $38,800 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE BALLET+4 more — $5,300 · Arts & CultureNashville Wine Auction — $166,550 · HealthNashville Wine AuctionTHE NEW BEGINNINGS CENTER — $12,000 · HealthTHE NEW BEGINNINGS CENTERTJ MARTELL FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Health+4 more — $7,000 · HealthIndividual grant recipient — $23,400 · OtherIndividual …AMERICAN RED CROSS-TIFFANY CIRCLE — $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN RE…Individual grant recipient — $8,000 · OtherIndividual …Individual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual …CHRISTIAN MUSIC BROADCASTERS INC — $5,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN M…Goodwill Industries of Middle TN Inc — $3,000 · Other+13 more — $21,000 · Other+13 moreDESTIN CHARITY WINE AUCTION FOUNDATION INC — $44,000 · Membership BenefitPORTERS CALL — $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE MATTIE KELLY ARTS FOUNDATION — $3,500 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZENS INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS OF OKALOOSA COUNTY INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesNASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC — $18,250 · Food & NutritionBAREFOOT REPUBLIC INC — $18,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$379,516Health$193,050Other$75,400Membership Benefit$44,000Human Services$22,500Food & Nutrition$18,250Youth Development$18,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNashville Symphony Association — $249,800 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetNashville Wine Auction — $166,550 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetNASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $46,616 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetDESTIN CHARITY WINE AUCTION FOUNDATION INC — $44,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART — $39,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE BALLET — $38,800 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC — $18,250 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBAREFOOT REPUBLIC INC — $18,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPORTERS CALL — $15,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE NEW BEGINNINGS CENTER — $12,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTJ MARTELL FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN MUSIC BROADCASTERS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MATTIE KELLY ARTS FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGoodwill Industries of Middle TN Inc — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOSPEL MUSIC TRUST FUND — $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE SONDER PROJECT INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTEIGER INTERNATIONAL LIMITED — $2,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS OF OKALOOSA COUNTY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THOUGHT OUTREACH INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPoint Washington Medical Clinic Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE OPERA ASSOCIATION — $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIST ART MUSEUM — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAISE THE ROOF ACADEMY — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Memorial Foundation I…Hca Healthcare Founda…The Community Foundat…Enchiridion FoundationDettwiller FoundationPublix Super Markets …The Steven & Laurie E…The Frist FoundationThe Wade-Buntin Famil…The Blum Family Found…Gibson Gives Foundati…Raymond James Charita…
Memorial Foundation IncTN32.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Enchiridion Foundation · Dettwiller Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · The Frist Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation · Gibson Gives Foundation Dba Gibson Gives · Raymond James Charitable Endowment 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 Hearn Charitable Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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