· Private foundation
Irvin and Beverly Small Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $1k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NASHVI | $25,000 |
| THE TEMPLE | $15,000 |
| WIDJIWAGAN | $10,000 |
| THE NASHVILLE ZOO | $10,000 |
| ABE'S GARDEN | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $210 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
49 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NZNASHVILLE ZOO INC5× · 2018–2024 · $85k · revenue +51%
- CBCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART6× · 2017–2022 · $80k · revenue +52%
- SCSENIOR CITIZENS INC6× · 2017–2022 · $36k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- STST THOMAS HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $15k
- ASADVENTURE SCIENCE MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $10k
- EEEAC ED ADVANCEMENT CENTERone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
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Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
Advancing science, education, and careers to improve neurologic health for all.
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 60 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.
- Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds Nashville Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds AKIVA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ABE'S GARDEN ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Belmont University ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
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 Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Doochin Family Charitable Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Eden Foundation · Eisen-Wald Foundation · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation · Raymond Zimmerman Family Foundation · Patricia and Rodes Hart Foundation · Carolyn Smith Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Irvin and Beverly Small Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Irvin and Beverly Small Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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