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Maria & Bernard a Pargh Family 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.

$957k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
26
Organizations funded FY2024
19%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$480,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 35
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$2.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Maria & Bernard a Pargh Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving20$932k5%
FY202426$767k19%
FY202335$726k31%
FY202222$393k32%
FY202123$416k35%
FY202016$173k56%
FY201916$199kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.3MReligion$597kEducation$481kHuman Services$327kHousing & Shelter$300kHealth$208kPhilanthropy$133kInternational$126kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
CA
CO
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Maria & Bernard a Pargh Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of United Hatzalah Inc: $1,138,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAbe's Garden: $300,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetJewish Community Center of Nashville: $204,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $170,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Jewish Policy Center: $100,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetNashville Public Television Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCurrey Ingram Academy: $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAkiva School: $58,334 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBelmont University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget1065 Institute Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetUniversity School of Nashville: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH Middle SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE: $38,333 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetNashville Humane Association Aka Nashville Humane Society: $32,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Kehillah School: $28,333 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends Life Community: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAmericans for Peace and Tolerance Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNashville Symphony Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBreast Cancer Recovery in Action Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNashville Repertory Theatre Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMother to Mother Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGoodwill Industries of Middle TN Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael Emergency Alliance: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNurture the Next Fka Prevent Child Abuse Tennessee: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren Are People Rutherford County Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMenorah Manor Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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 Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN26.1× affinity12 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 John and Heidi Hassenfeld Family Foundation · Doochin Family Charitable Foundation · The Joel C & Bernice W Gordon Family Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation · The Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · American Paper & Twine Charitable Trust · The Jeffrey & Donna Eskind Family 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.

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About Maria & Bernard a Pargh Family Foundation

How much does Maria & Bernard a Pargh Family Foundation give?
Maria & Bernard a Pargh Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $956,951 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 35 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Maria & Bernard a Pargh Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (36%), Religion (16%), Education (13%).
Who are Maria & Bernard a Pargh Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Friends of United Hatzalah Inc ($1.1M), Abe's Garden ($300k), Jewish Community Center of Nashville ($205k).
Does Maria & Bernard a Pargh Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Maria & Bernard a Pargh Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Maria & Bernard a Pargh Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Memorial Foundation Inc, The John and Heidi Hassenfeld Family Foundation.
Where is Maria & Bernard a Pargh Family Foundation based?
Maria & Bernard a Pargh Family Foundation is based in TN.

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 58 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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