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NASHVILLE BAR FOUNDATION
The NASHVILLE BAR FOUNDATION advances justice through targeted non-profit financial support, civic-minded education, and the development and celebration of a respected legal community.
$74k
Granted FY2024
4
Grants
1
Communities
$17k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of NASHVILLE BAR FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
habitatchild abuseenablecourtchildrencreate
2019
arts businesscourtchild abusegreater
2020
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2021
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2022
arts businessgreater
2023
habitatenablecreatechildrenarts businesschild abusecourt
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 4 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$704k
Total assets
Largest grants
- ARTS AND BUSINESS COUNCIL$16,500
- LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MD TN$15,000
- NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE$9,350
- CASA INC$9,350
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4% — the area typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$454k · 8 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
8
0
Total granted
$454k
$0
Still filing today
100%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
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
- LALEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MD TN8× · 2017–2024 · $124k · revenue +122%
- NCNASHVILLE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE5× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +95%
- CICASA INC4× · 2018–2024 · $46k · revenue +82%
Funded once
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Legal Aid of East Tennessee
Legal representation, counseling and other civil legal services for the indigent of tennessee
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2
Casa of the Tennessee Heartland Inc
Provide advocacy for abused and neglected children in juvenile court.
Civil Rights
3
Tennessee Justice Center Inc
Tjc uses the law and advocacy to ensure that tennesseans can meet their most basic needs.
Crime & Legal
4
Jackson County Casa
Casa is a unique non-profit helping abused and neglected children in the jackson county family court system. our team of trained volunteers,staff case supervisors, and staff attorneys allow each child to be represented in a court of law…
Civil Rights
5
Nashville Adult Literacy Council
The nashville adult literacy council mission is to help nashville adults with the reading, writing, and english-speaking skills they need for the life they want. learners at nalc reach their goals through literacy.
Education
6
Nashville Technology Council
Leading voice & advocate for middle tn's information technology ecosystem & tech professionals.
Community Improvement
7
The Child Advocacy Center of Anderson Co Tn
To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.
Human Services
8
Georgia Court Appointed Special
develops and supports court-sanctioned, community-based affiliate programs that provide trained and supervised volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children involved in juvenile court dependency proceedings.
Civil Rights
9
Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau
The mission of the Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau is to maximize the economic contribution of the convention & tourism industry to Nashville, TN, which is the city's second largest industry. This industry provides jobs to…
Community Improvement
10
Junior Achievment of Chattanooga
Junior Achievement empowers young people to own their economic success.
International
11
Association of Legal Administrators
Ala is the catalyst for growth by providing: diverse educational experiences, engaged peer communities, strategic solutions, dynamic resources, and trusted networks.
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12
Nashville Cares
Nashville cares mission is to end the hiv/aids epidemic in middle tennessee.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville Inc and the most unlike its peers is Able Youth Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$263,812Crime & Legal$97,987Civil Rights$46,460Human Services$45,258
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.
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.
The Community Foundation of MiddleTN17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle · The Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 organisation NASHVILLE BAR FOUNDATION 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ABLE YOUTH INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
9 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 571158431 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on ABLE YOUTH INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Nashville Bar Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Nashville Bar Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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By state
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State money flows
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