· Private foundation
Kelley Robertson 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 $10k17 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $11,400 |
| WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| TENNESSEE PRIDE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $3,000 |
| NASHVILLE CARES | $3,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| WOODSTOCK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,250 |
| UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE | $1,000 |
| WOODSTOCK LAND CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION | $1,000 |
| ABE'S GARDEN | $1,000 |
| CHEEKWOOD | $1,000 |
| NASHVILLE DOLPHINS | $1,000 |
| THE PUBLIC THEATER | $600 |
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 (FY18–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% 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 +34% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 6 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- NCNASHVILLE CARES7× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +136%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $22k · revenue +481%
- TRTHE ROCHELLE CENTER2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- VUVanderbilt University Medical Centergraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +25%
- RCROCHELLE CENTERSADDLE UPone grant, 2019 · $3k
- CFCHUKKERS FOR CHARITYone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
Ntc mission is to advance the diverse technology ecosystem by connecting and promoting members, attracting, growing and retaining tech talent, and providing opportunities to reinvest in the greater nashville community.
The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.
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 nashville chamber public benefit foundation supports the work of the nashville area chamber of commerce through efforts to improve the quality of education, encourage public and private efforts around education, and to facilitate the…
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…
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The Nashville Symphony inspires and engages a diverse and growing community with extraordinary live orchestral music experiences. As Middle Tennessee continues to grow and transform, the Nashville Symphony will be a financially robust,…
Greenways for nashville promotes, supports, and enhances a system of greenways and open space in nashville and davidson county.
To provide facilities, services, and programs of the highest quality for the greatest benefit of the people, institutions, and communities of the state, and to take a leadership role in fostering the performing arts, arts education,…
The nashville area chamber of commerce facilitates community leadership to create economic prosperity.
Nashville banner is a locally owned, community supported, civic news organization. we exist to empower the people of nashville to make informed decisions by providing non-partisan journalism from an independent, nonprofit newsroom. we are…
To sustain the vibrancy of nashville's centennial park, home to the historic parthenon, by supporting metro parks in revitalizing & activating this public green space to ensure the park remains a welcoming destination for recreation,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Cares and the most unlike its peers is The River School - Ps 281 Pta. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 76 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 CARES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds THE ROCHELLE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE ↗
- Who funds DOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS ↗
- Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE PRIDE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds Woodstock Land Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds CURREY INGRAM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF NASHVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds OASIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE BALLET ↗
- Who funds The American-Scandinavian Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
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: Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Frist Foundation · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Danner Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation · Dettwiller 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 Kelley Robertson 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.
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% 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.