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Louise B Wallace Foundation 19702 at a glance

· 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.

$869k
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.5MReligion$1.5MHealth$1.3MCrime & Legal$875kHuman Services$294kYouth Development$181kRecreation & Sports$153kHousing & Shelter$147kOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $102k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $335k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $432k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARPETH HALL SCHOOL$150,000
ST GEORGES EPISCOPAL CHURCH$132,000
CENTERSTONE FOUNDATION$100,000
CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION$50,000
COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$40,000
MEN OF VALOR$40,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TN$25,000
SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER$25,000
REFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP$25,000
ENSWORTH SCHOOL$25,000
GILDA'S CLUB NASHVILLE$25,000
YMCA OF MIDDLE TN$20,000
MEN OF VALOR$20,000
UPRISE NASHVILLE$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TN$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES: $8k → 13%HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES: $5k → 13%HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES: $5k → 13%HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES: $5k → 13%YMCA OF MIDDLE TN: $25k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TN: $5k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TN: $5k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $2k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $2k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $2k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $2k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $2k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TN: $20k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TN: $20k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TN: $20k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $10k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES: $5k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TN: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MA
IN
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 72 repeat orgs$192k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against +57% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
39

Total granted

$6.1M
$177k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
+57%

Still filing today

58%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TH
    THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $885k · revenue +141%
  • MO
    MEN OF VALOR
    8× · 2017–2024 · $875k · revenue +283%
  • CF
    CENTERSTONE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $415k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • SC
    SENIOR CITIZENS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +38%
  • DM
    DAYSTAR MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • CP
    CRESCENT PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -3%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Nashville Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Tenngreen Land Conservancy

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.

Recreation & Sports
3
Kings Academy Nashville

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.

Education
4
Greenways for Nashville Inc

Greenways for nashville promotes, supports, and enhances a system of greenways and open space in nashville and davidson county.

Recreation & Sports
5
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment
6
Park Center Inc

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…

Employment
7
Cumberland Medical Center

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.

Health
8
New Hope Academy

Christ-centered school educating children of diverse racial & socioeconomic backgrounds by establishing a biblical worldview & preparing each child to flourish academically, emotionally, socially & spiritually.

Education
9
Nashville Inner City Ministry Inc

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.

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10
Nashville Cares

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.

Health
11
Nashville Public Media Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Nashville Fellows Program Inc

Provide support for under-served youth

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 114 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/63
Grantees still filing
48/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST GEORGES EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $750,000 · OtherST GEORGES EPISCOPAL CHURCHCOVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $315,000 · OtherCOVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHREFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP: $160,000 · OtherREFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIPBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TN: $135,000 · OtherNASHVILLE STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATN: $130,700 · Other+75 more: $1,074,250 · Other+75 moreTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL: $884,500 · EducationTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOLTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL: $220,000 · EducationTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOLABINTRA MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $70,500 · EducationABINTRA MONTESSORI SCHO…+7 more: $125,000 · Education+7 moreCENTERSTONE FOUNDATION: $415,000 · HealthCENTERSTONE FOUNDATIONVanderbilt University Medical Center: $400,000 · HealthVanderbilt University …SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $325,000 · HealthSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTERCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · Health+5 more: $49,500 · HealthMEN OF VALOR: $875,000 · Crime & LegalMEN OF VALORYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273): $100,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $22,500 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $8,000 · Human Services+3 more: $13,000 · Human ServicesDOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $42,000 · Recreation & SportsANTIQUES & GARDEN SHOW OF NASHVILLE INC: $40,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $22,000 · PhilanthropyTask Force Dagger Foundation: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTennessee Kidney Foundation Inc: $3,000 · PhilanthropyGERMANTOWN CHARITY HORSE SHOW: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$2,564,950Education$1,300,000Health$1,249,500Crime & Legal$875,000Human Services$153,500Recreation & Sports$92,000Philanthropy$72,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL: $884,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMEN OF VALOR: $875,000 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetCENTERSTONE FOUNDATION: $415,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $325,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL: $220,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273): $100,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetABINTRA MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $70,500 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetTHE NEXT DOOR INC: $63,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetDAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC: $60,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS: $50,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetHARPETH CONSERVANCY: $45,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $42,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetANTIQUES & GARDEN SHOW OF NASHVILLE INC: $40,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetOPERATION ANDREW GROUP INC: $39,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetNASHVILLE COACHING COALITION: $28,500 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetEPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $20,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIST ART MUSEUM: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBEGIN ANEW: $19,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE: $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSADDLE UP: $15,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE TREE FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCRESCENT PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBELIZE PROJECT: $10,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIND WHAT MATTERS FKA BLUE BAYOU COLLECTIVE: $7,500 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORIC COLONY HOUSE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetJOBS FOR LIFE INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF NASHVILLE: $6,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetLarkspur Conservation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHORSE RESCUE: $5,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTask Force Dagger Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFUND RECOVERY: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ↗
  • Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Memorial Foundation I…The Frist FoundationHca Healthcare Founda…Ebs FoundationDorothy Cate and Thom…Nashville Predators F…Dettwiller FoundationUnited Way of Middle …The Wade-Buntin Famil…The Steven & Laurie E…Joe C Davis Foundation
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN61.1× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Louise B Wallace Foundation 19702 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louise B Wallace Foundation 19702. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 114 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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