· Public charity
Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee
The jewish federation of nashville is the central voluntary communal organization of the jewish community.
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.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $319k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $696k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY17–24, $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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +34% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NASHVILLE7× · 2017–2023 · $4.1M · revenue +34%
- ASAKIVA SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +97%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +100% · 33% of their budget
Funded once
- TMTIMOTHY MOONEY REPERTORY THEATREone grant, 2022 · $75k
- SUSADDLE UPgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $51k · revenue +133%
- AAAYLA'S ACRES NO-KILL ANIMAL RESCUE INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -1%
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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How this is measured
106 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
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.
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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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee. Bigger dots raise more.
- Jewish Community Centers of South Broward Inc: 8% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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