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Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee

The jewish federation of nashville is the central voluntary communal organization of the jewish community.

$3.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$566k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of JEWISH FEDERATION OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 43 grants below total $2,670,215 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,524,657 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $854,442 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $106k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $319k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $696k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
$11,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$565,975
VANDERBILT HILLEL BEN SCHULMAN CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE$381,327
AKIVA SCHOOL$340,921
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH$261,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE$196,957
THE TEMPLE OHABAI SHOLOM$174,153
JEWISH UPPER SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE$120,400
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER$100,000
CONGREGATION SHERITH ISRAEL$54,339
AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY$50,000
WEST END SYNAGOGUE$43,921
NEW ISRAEL FUND PA$36,200
ABE'S GARDEN$32,900
MOISHE HOUSE$32,500
CONGREGATION MICAH$19,765
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 (FY17–24, $4.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YOUNG ADULT CENTER: $8k → 8%Camp Barney Medintz: $6k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER: $100k → 12%YOUNG ADULT CENTER: $8k → 8%JCFS CHICAGO: $6k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $18k → 14%DAVID POSNACK JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 13%DAVID POSNACK JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 13%DAVID POSNACK JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 13%DAVID POSNACK JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 13%DAVID POSNACK JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 13%FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE: $7k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $55k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $23k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $17k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $15k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $13k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS - NASHVILLE AREA CHAPTER: $10k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $8k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $8k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $7k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $6k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $6k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $6k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $6k → 14%GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $667k → 14%GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $592k → 14%GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $582k → 14%GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $574k → 14%GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $569k → 14%GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $534k → 14%Gordon Jewish Community Cente: $534k → 14%Buz A Bus: $13k → 14%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

ME
IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
KY
MD
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$14M · 62 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

62 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
54

Total granted

$14M
$794k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+33%

Still filing today

81%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalReligionOther

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

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NASHVILLE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $4.1M · revenue +34%
  • AS
    AKIVA SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +97%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +100% · 33% of their budget

Funded once

  • TM
    TIMOTHY MOONEY REPERTORY THEATRE
    one grant, 2022 · $75k
  • SU
    SADDLE UPgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $51k · revenue +133%
  • AA
    AYLA'S ACRES NO-KILL ANIMAL RESCUE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -1%

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
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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3
Young Judaea Global Inc

Young judaea is a diverse community that educates and empowers jewish youth to deeply engage with israel and to lead positive change for the jewish people, israel and the world.

Education
4
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
5
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
6
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
7
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
8
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
9
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
10
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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11
Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles Inc

Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…

Religion
12
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc

Uja-federation of new york (uja) cares for jews everywhere and new yorkers of all backgrounds, responds to crises close to home and far away, and shapes the jewish future. through strategic grantmaking, uja provides funding and resources…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is Fishel Foundation. 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 backsteadyLocal History MuseumsEquine Therapy ProgramsAnimal Rescue and ShelterFood Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Christian Missionary Organi…Christian Youth CampsCancer Support ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsAffordable Housing Construc…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Senior Support ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Environmental Conservation …Jewish Community Organizati…
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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%2%<5yr14%3%5–10yr17%20%10–20yr13%22%20–35yr11%22%35–55yr24%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr17%7%10–20yr13%7%20–35yr11%7%35–55yr24%77%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%1/147
the rest of the field
13%
4,628/36,253

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

106 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. 106 of the 147 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
103/106
Grantees still filing
72/106
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AKIVA SCHOOL — $2,017,134 · OtherAKIVA SCHOOLVANDERBILT HILLEL — $1,454,325 · OtherVANDERBILT HILLELJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $1,338,408 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENN…The Temple Ohabai Sholom — $653,818 · OtherThe Temple Ohabai SholomWEST END SYNAGOGUE-THE CONGREGATION KHAL KODESH ADATH — $610,835 · OtherWEST END SYNAGOGUE-THE CONGREGATION KHAL KODESH AD…GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $565,975 · OtherGORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERCongregation Sherith Israel — $394,683 · OtherHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS — $381,327 · Other+68 more — $2,222,054 · Other+68 moreTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $4,602,889 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF …+12 more — $426,188 · Philanthropy+12 moreJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NASHVILLE — $4,064,388 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $163,154 · Human Services+9 more — $295,324 · Human Services+9 moreEpiscopal Day Private School of Manatee County Inc — $229,000 · EducationJEWISH Middle SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE — $201,900 · EducationUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE — $130,650 · EducationMUSICIANS FOR EDUCATION INC DBA STREET OF DREAMS — $70,000 · EducationVanderbilt University — $68,650 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $55,450 · EducationPROCLAIMING JUSTICE TO THE NATIONS INC — $40,250 · Education+7 more — $113,750 · EducationFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $261,000 · Arts & CultureTIMOTHY MOONEY REPERTORY THEATRE — $75,000 · Arts & CultureHERITAGE FOUNDATION OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY — $65,000 · Arts & CultureCENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY — $55,600 · Arts & CultureCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART — $43,100 · Arts & CultureNashville Symphony Association — $21,200 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $20,650 · Arts & CultureNEW ISRAEL FUND — $149,528 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $83,567 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $67,600 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $50,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israel — $36,200 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $21,965 · InternationalHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC — $20,000 · International+2 more — $13,200 · InternationalVanderbilt University Medical Center — $127,750 · HealthSADDLE UP — $51,060 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $30,000 · HealthYOUTH FUTURES — $30,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $20,000 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $16,000 · Health+10 more — $85,284 · Health
Other$9,638,559Philanthropy$5,029,077Human Services$4,522,866Education$909,650Arts & Culture$541,550International$442,060Health$360,094

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $4,602,889 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NASHVILLE — $4,064,388 over 7y, 12% of budgetAKIVA SCHOOL — $2,017,134 over 8y, 16% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $1,338,408 over 8y, 33% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS — $381,327 over 1y, 13% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $261,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEpiscopal Day Private School of Manatee County Inc — $229,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH Middle SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE — $201,900 over 4y, 15% of budgetABE'S GARDEN — $187,210 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $163,154 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $149,528 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA — $136,500 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE — $130,650 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION — $130,613 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $127,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC — $105,582 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $83,567 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL — $83,188 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEBREW DAY SCHOOL OF BROWARD COUNTY — $75,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICIANS FOR EDUCATION INC DBA STREET OF DREAMS — $70,000 over 7y, 7.5% of budgetVanderbilt University — $68,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $67,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE FOUNDATION OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY — $65,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC — $62,524 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BLUEGRASS INC — $60,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetCENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY — $55,600 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $55,450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFISHEL FOUNDATION — $52,451 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSADDLE UP — $51,060 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetAYLA'S ACRES NO-KILL ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE — $48,250 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $45,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART — $43,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE — $42,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPROCLAIMING JUSTICE TO THE NATIONS INC — $40,250 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YESHIVA OROT HA TESHUBA INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel — $36,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA INC — $34,400 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SOUTH BROWARD INC — $32,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $31,058 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Adamah — $30,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH FUTURES — $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetOUR PLACE NASHVILLE — $27,900 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetHadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc — $25,215 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NASHVILLE ↗
  • Who funds AKIVA SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds Episcopal Day Private School of Manatee County Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH Middle SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE ↗
  • Who funds ABE'S GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE ↗
  • Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL ↗
  • Who funds THE HEBREW DAY SCHOOL OF BROWARD COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds TIMOTHY MOONEY REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
  • Who funds MUSICIANS FOR EDUCATION INC DBA STREET OF DREAMS ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗

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.

The Harold Grinspoon …The Wade-Buntin Famil…Memorial Foundation I…Hca Healthcare Founda…United Way of Middle …Doochin Family Charit…The Community Foundat…The Joel C & Bernice …The Blum Family Found…The Steven & Laurie E…Dorothy Cate and Thom…The Frist Foundation
The Harold Grinspoon FoundationMA26.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Harold Grinspoon Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Doochin Family Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Joel C & Bernice W Gordon Family Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Frist 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 Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Jewish Community Centers of South Broward Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 147 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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