· Private foundation
Judy and Noah Liff 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 $10k23 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $56k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FRIST CENTER FOR VISUAL ARTS | $50,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $40,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF NASHVILLE | $16,040 |
| NASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO | $5,000 |
| MAINE PUBLIC | $5,000 |
| CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NASHVILLE PUBLIC MEDIA INC | $5,000 |
| VANDERBILT HILLEL | $3,000 |
| THE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE | $2,500 |
| THE JEWISH MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| NASHVILLE OPERA | $2,000 |
| ST GEORGE FIRE & RESCUE | $1,000 |
| THE TEMPLE | $1,000 |
| LEADERSHIP NASHVILLE | $1,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +44% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 16 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- NONASHVILLE OPERA ASSOCIATION6× · 2018–2025 · $220k · revenue +110%
- VUVanderbilt University Medical Center3× · 2019–2025 · $85k · revenue +91%
- USUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE2× · 2018–2019 · $75k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- TSTENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $49k · revenue +10%
- TCTHE CONSERVANCY PARTHENON CENTENNIAL PARKone grant, 2018 · $10k
- BHBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +59%
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.
See Disclosure Above.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
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.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Operation of public tv station.
See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Public Radio and the most unlike its peers is Florida Lions Foundation for the Blind Inc. 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 43 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.
33 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. 33 of the 54 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 NASHVILLE OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds LifeFlight of Maine LLC ↗
- Who funds Nashville Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
- Who funds HERRING GUT LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds The Bhutan Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONE GENERATION AWAY ↗
- Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds ABE'S GARDEN ↗
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 · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Joel C & Bernice W Gordon Family Foundation · Doochin Family Charitable Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Enchiridion Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Eden 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 Judy and Noah Liff 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.
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% 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.
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