· Public charity
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARTS AND BUSINESS COUNCIL | $16,500 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MD TN | $15,000 |
| CASA INC | $9,350 |
| NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE | $9,350 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LALEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND THE CUMBERLANDS8× · 2017–2024 · $124k · revenue +122%
- TVTHE VICTOR S JOHNSON III NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC5× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +101%
- CICASA INC4× · 2018–2024 · $46k · revenue +82%
Funded once
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.
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.
Legal aid of east tennessee provides legal representation, legal education, and other civil legal services for the low-income population in our community through advocacy of all types.
The tennessee justice center (tjc) advocates on behalf of low-income tennesseans in areas of public policy having the greatest impact on their health and welfare.
Provide advocacy for abused and neglected children in juvenile court.
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…
To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.
To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
To support, develop, expand, and unite local casa programs in recruiting and training volunteers to advocate for tennessees children who have been abused and neglected.
To positively impact the economy and quality of life of the greater nashville area by attracting and promoting professional and amateur sporting events.
Nashville Wine Auction engages local and world wine communities to produce wine related events which raise money to fight cancer.
The mission of alabama judicial advocacy inc. is to equip and empower casa programs to advocate for all of alabama's abused and neglected children.
To provide actor training and theatrical performances to the general public.
How this is measured
8 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND THE CUMBERLANDS ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE VICTOR S JOHNSON III NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CASA INC ↗
- Who funds Able Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds Achilles International Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTS AND BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER NASHVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE ↗
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: Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nashville Bar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nashville Bar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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