· Private foundation
Houghland 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 $10k22 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TN | $50,000 |
| ST PAUL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| VOLUNTEER STATE HORSEMEN'S FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $20,000 |
| ALIVE HOSPICE | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF WARNER PARK | $10,000 |
| HANDS ON NASHVILLE | $10,000 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK - NASHVILLE | $10,000 |
| BRENTWOOD ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $10,000 |
| NASHVILLE UNION MISSION | $10,000 |
| SLAVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION | $7,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $6,000 |
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, $245k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% 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.
61 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $315k · revenue +28%
- AHALIVE HOSPICE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +23%
- HOHANDS ON NASHVILLE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- HTHOLY TRINITY CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $4k
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 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.
See Disclosure Above.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
The nashville academy of medicine is dedicated to supporting physicians in greater nashville who provide quality medical care and are pledged to uphold high standards of conduct. we promote physician health, practice health, and community…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
In fulfillment of our mission to inspire a culture of understanding and discovery of our natural world through conservation, innovation and leadership, our goal is to build a first class zoo for middle tennessee and to develop a facility…
Bloodwater mission, inc. (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization registered in nashville, tennessee that operates an international nonprofit that partners with african community-driven organizations to end water and hiv/aids…
North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 50 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 63 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 THE VOLUNTEER STATE HORSEMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON NASHVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT THOMAS HEALTH FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE ↗
- Who funds BATTLE GROUND ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES OF CHRIST DISASTER RELIEF EFFORT INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Nashville Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BACKFIELD IN MOTION ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE COACHING COALITION ↗
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 · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Tennessee Titans Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Patricia and Rodes Hart Foundation · The Danner Foundation · Louise B Wallace Foundation 19702 · T & T Family 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 Houghland 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.
- 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.