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Hearn Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Hearn Charitable Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$270k
Granted FY2026still arriving
12
Grants FY2026still arriving
5
States reached
$138k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$398kHealth$197kMembership Benefit$44kYouth Development$23kFood & Nutrition$19kReligion$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kHuman Services$8kOther$0
02FY2026 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k6 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $54k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $191k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$485k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NASHVILLE SYMPHONY$138,000
CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM$53,000
NASHVILLE WINE AUCTION$19,000
NASHVILLE BALLET$15,000
THE NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
LUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$6,100
THE NEW BEGINNINGS CENTER$5,000
PORTER'S CALL$5,000
DESTIN CHARITY WINE AUCTION FOUNDATION$5,000
HORTICULTURE SOCIETY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$2,500
HOP ON A CURE INC$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IA
CA
AZ
AR
TN
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$882k · 14 repeat orgs$138k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2026, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
27

Total granted

$882k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+55%

Still filing today

93%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationReligionFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    10× · 2017–2026 · $388k · revenue +29%
  • NW
    Nashville Wine Auction
    9× · 2017–2026 · $186k · revenue +364%
  • NR
    NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC
    9× · 2017–2026 · $57k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS-TIFFANY CIRCLE
    one grant, 2025 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

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
Nashville Blues and Roots Alliance
Arts & Culture
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
New World Symphony Inc

Prepares gifted graduates of prestigious music programs for successful careers in orchestras and ensembles.

Education
5
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
6
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
7
The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation

The nashville chamber public benefit foundation supports the work of the nashville area chamber of commerce through efforts to improve the quality of education, encourage public and private efforts around education, and to facilitate the…

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8
Artpace Inc (Audit)

Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce

The nashville area chamber of commerce facilitates community leadership to create economic prosperity.

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11
Texas Public Radio

The mission of Texas Public Radio is to engage, inspire and inform, bringing people together to better understand their community and world.

Arts & Culture
12
Bang On a Can

Presenting, commissioning, performing, recording and teaching contemporary music. bang on a can believes in exposing exciting new music as broadly and accessibly as possible. through it's summer institute, bang on a can hopes to bring this…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Repertory Theatre Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 46 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
30/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Nashville Symphony Association: $387,800 · Arts & CultureNashville Symphony AssociationNASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $56,616 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INCNASHVILLE BALLET: $53,800 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE BALLETCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $39,000 · Arts & CultureCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART+4 more: $5,300 · Arts & CultureNashville Wine Auction: $185,550 · HealthNashville Wine AuctionTHE NEW BEGINNINGS CENTER: $17,000 · HealthTHE NEW BEGINNINGS CENTE…TJ MARTELL FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Health+5 more: $13,100 · Health+5 moreCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM: $53,000 · OtherCHEEKWOOD BOTA…Individual grant recipient: $23,400 · OtherIndividual gra…AMERICAN RED CROSS-TIFFANY CIRCLE: $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED C…Individual grant recipient: $8,000 · OtherIndividual gra…Individual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN MUSIC BROADCASTERS INC: $5,000 · Other+16 more: $27,500 · Other+16 moreDESTIN CHARITY WINE AUCTION FOUNDATION INC: $49,000 · Membership BenefitPORTERS CALL: $20,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · 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$542,516Health$223,150Other$131,900Membership Benefit$49,000Human Services$37,500Food & Nutrition$18,250Youth Development$18,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNashville Symphony Association: $387,800 over 10y, 0.5% of budgetNashville Wine Auction: $185,550 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetNASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $56,616 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetNASHVILLE BALLET: $53,800 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetDESTIN CHARITY WINE AUCTION FOUNDATION INC: $49,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $39,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPORTERS CALL: $20,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetNASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC: $18,250 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBAREFOOT REPUBLIC INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NEW BEGINNINGS CENTER: $17,000 over 4y, 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 budgetMUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SONDER PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOSPEL MUSIC TRUST FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSTEIGER INTERNATIONAL LIMITED: $2,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $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 budgetFOOD FOR THOUGHT OUTREACH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPoint Washington Medical Clinic Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hearn Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hearn Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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