· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| NASHVILLE CARES | $3,000 |
| TENNESSEE PRIDE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $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 |
| ABE'S GARDEN | $1,000 |
| NASHVILLE DOLPHINS | $1,000 |
| NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION | $1,000 |
| CHEEKWOOD | $1,000 |
| THE PUBLIC THEATER | $600 |
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 (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 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 +43% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NCNASHVILLE CARES7× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +136%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $22k · revenue +481%
- FCFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE4× · 2018–2023 · $6k · revenue +118%
Funded once
- VUVanderbilt University Medical Centergraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +25%
- RCROCHELLE CENTERSADDLE UPone grant, 2019 · $3k
- CFCHUKKERS FOR CHARITYone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
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,…
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 76 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 CARES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE ↗
- Who funds THE ROCHELLE CENTER ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kelley Robertson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kelley Robertson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
How this is measured
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