· Private foundation
The Wade-Buntin Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k52 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VOLUNTEER STATE HORSEMENS FOUNDATION | $104,500 |
| ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| HARPETH CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF WARNER PARKS | $11,000 |
| IMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH | $7,000 |
| GREENWAYS FOR NASHVILLE | $5,500 |
| ALIVE HOSPICE | $5,000 |
| FLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| ST GEORGE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART | $3,500 |
| SEWANEE THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH | $3,250 |
| SAILFISH POINT FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +63% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
116 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 68 since wound down; 8 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- TVTHE VOLUNTEER STATE HORSEMEN'S FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $234k · revenue +25%
- HCHARPETH CONSERVANCY9× · 2017–2025 · $153k · revenue +281%
- NPNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +367%
Funded once
- MMAGDALENEone grant, 2017 · $3k
- MCMONROE CARELL CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2019 · $2k
- SASAINT AUGUSTINE'S CHAPELone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
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…
To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.
Our mission is to serve our members through education, professionalism, and legislative involvement
Nasvhille parks foundation enhances public parks and expands recreational opprotunities whiles promoting sustainable growth of the park system.
Park center has been serving nashville for over 40 years, providing a place for hope and recovery for people experiencing serious mental illness, homelessness, and addiction. we meet people where they are and provide support through…
To create a safer nashville through initiatives that engage our community, businesses, and nonprofits to prevent crime, introduce innovation and best practices, and help build the best police department in the nation.
To support education, health and access programs that preserve, protect, and enhance Tennessee's natural areas and parks system.
Nashville bar association is organized to improve the practice of law through education, service & fellowship
The mission of the Tennessee Aquarium is to connect people with nature and empower them to make informed decisions about water and wildlife.
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.
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.
Leadership tennessee fosters collaborative, non-partisan dialogue on issues of state importance, by connecting and deploying a network of diverse leaders and engaged citizens.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Pomona College. 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.
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 37 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
95 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. 95 of the 183 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.
- Who funds ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE VOLUNTEER STATE HORSEMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARPETH CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds SADDLE UP ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAILFISH POINT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BATTLE GROUND ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BELCOURT THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS ↗
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: Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Frist Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc · Enchiridion Foundation · Ebs Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Blum Family Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation
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 The Wade-Buntin Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Florida Oceanographic Society Inc — 0% of income from government
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.