Tennessee · Private foundation
Matt H Dobson 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.
- $24k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,990
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,716
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $434k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Matt H Dobson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $24k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $26k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $46k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $41k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $50k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $46k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $54k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $63k | 58% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montgomery Bell Academy of the University of Nashville | $186,284 | 8 | 0% |
| Harpeth Conservancy | $72,466 | 8 | 2% |
| Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art | $36,900 | 7 | 0% |
| The Harpeth Hall School | $17,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Southern Environmental Law Center | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $7,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Nashville Public Television Inc | $2,450 | 6 | 0% |
| Nashville Symphony Association | $1,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Delta Waterfowl Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tennessee State University Foundation | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 25 grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($64k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Matt H Dobson Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Sandra Schatten Foundation · Patricia and Rodes Hart Foundation · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Kelley Robertson Foundation · Thomas & Mamie Houser Charitable Foundation · Anne Bransford Wallace Foundation · James R Meadows Jr Foundation
How this is measured
About Matt H Dobson Foundation
- How much does Matt H Dobson Foundation give?
- Matt H Dobson Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $24,406 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Matt H Dobson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (53%), Environment (21%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are Matt H Dobson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Montgomery Bell Academy of the University of Nashville ($186k), Harpeth Conservancy ($72k), Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art ($37k).
- Does Matt H Dobson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Matt H Dobson 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 Matt H Dobson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation.
- Where is Matt H Dobson Foundation based?
- Matt H Dobson Foundation is based in TN.
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