· Private foundation
Louise B Wallace Foundation 19702
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $335k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $432k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARPETH HALL SCHOOL | $150,000 |
| ST GEORGES EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $132,000 |
| CENTERSTONE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MEN OF VALOR | $40,000 |
| COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $40,000 |
| SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER | $25,000 |
| GILDA'S CLUB NASHVILLE | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TN | $25,000 |
| ENSWORTH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| REFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP | $25,000 |
| MEN OF VALOR | $20,000 |
| YMCA OF MIDDLE TN | $20,000 |
| UPRISE NASHVILLE | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TN | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $151k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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 +69% since the first grant, against +57% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 3 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- THTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $885k · revenue +141%
- MOMEN OF VALOR8× · 2017–2024 · $875k · revenue +283%
- CFCENTERSTONE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $415k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- TSTENNESSEE STATE MUSEUMone grant, 2018 · $10k
- CGCOMMON GOOD DBA GOOD OF ALLone grant, 2023 · $10k
- CPCRESCENT PROJECT INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -3%
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.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
The organization's primary mission is conserving land where people and nature can thrive by creating green corridors linking existing public lands using conservation easments and outright purchase.
King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.
Greenways for nashville promotes, supports, and enhances a system of greenways and open space in nashville and davidson county.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
Park center has been serving nashville for over 40 years, providing a place for hope and recovery for people experiencing serious mental illness, homelessness, and addiction. we meet people where they are and provide support through…
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Christ-centered school educating children of diverse racial & socioeconomic backgrounds by establishing a biblical worldview & preparing each child to flourish academically, emotionally, socially & spiritually.
Nashville inner city ministry is a christ-centered community organization dedicated to empowering the spiritual, educational and vocational development of at-risk youth and their families.
Nashville cares exists to end the hiv epidemic, promote comprehensive sexual health and end sexual health stigmatization and discrimination through prevention, education, treatment, support, advocacy, and strategic partnership.
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…
Provide support for under-served youth
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Peeps Foundation Inc. 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 28 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 114 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 THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MEN OF VALOR ↗
- Who funds CENTERSTONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) ↗
- Who funds ABINTRA MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS ↗
- Who funds HARPETH CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds ANTIQUES & GARDEN SHOW OF NASHVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION ANDREW GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE COVENANT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE COACHING COALITION ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIST ART MUSEUM ↗
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 Frist Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Ebs Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Dettwiller Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Joe C Davis 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 Louise B Wallace Foundation 19702 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% 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.