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Nashville Predators Foundation
Foundation is a public non-profit organization established to conduct charitable activities and raise funds for contributions to various charities
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 62 grants below total $1,267,987 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,863,626 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $595,639 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $213k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $431k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $625k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONROE CARELL JR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT VANDERBILT | $229,365 |
| KABOOM | $142,680 |
| INSPIRITUS INC | $102,500 |
| YWCA OF NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TN | $100,000 |
| WESTMINSTER HOME CONNECTION | $50,000 |
| PETERSON FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S | $32,567 |
| SOLES4SOULS | $30,900 |
| EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION | $30,429 |
| SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| BEST BUDDIES | $30,000 |
| THE JOHN AND MATTHEW GAUDREAU FOUNDATION | $27,315 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC | $25,000 |
| WAGS & WALKS NASHVILLE | $20,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NASHVILLE INC | $14,740 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
144 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 106 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- VUVanderbilt University Medical Center9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +120%
YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE7× · 2019–2025 · $750k · revenue +105%- PFPETERSON FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSONS6× · 2017–2025 · $316k · revenue +302% · 58% of their budget
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -6%
- TCTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUSone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue -42%
- NANASHVILLE ADULT LITERACY COUNCIL INCone grant, 2022 · $70k · revenue -45%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
Tennessee Kids Belong dramatically improves the experiences and outcomes for children in foster care.
The mission of My Fathers House Nashville (MFHN) is to provide shelter, parenting education, recovery information and life skills for fathers transitioning out of institutional settings or homelessness.
By creating a safe and structured two year residential program the Hope House of Tennessee will aim to equip and empower personal and educational growth economic self-sufficiency and a deeper understanding of Christs unconditional love.
Ntc mission is to advance the diverse technology ecosystem by connecting and promoting members, attracting, growing and retaining tech talent, and providing opportunities to reinvest in the greater nashville community.
Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…
The mission of the nashville children's alliance is healing and justice for children who have been abused or exposed to violence.
Provide needy families and individuals with rent and utilities assistance in order to prevent their eviction or termination of utility services. also provide food and other assistance to needy families and individuals.
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…
To promote, assist, and support the development, growth, and sustainability of child advocacy centers in their service to at-risk, abused, and neglected children and their families.
Tennessee voices for children, inc. (tnv) is a statewide and national source of referral, support, and advocacy for families and the systems that serve them. our mission is to be the collaborative leader guiding mental health…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee and the most unlike its peers is Nhl Foundation Us Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
279 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 279 of the 338 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds KABOOM INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds PETERSON FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSONS ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds SOLES4SOULS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER HOME CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds Inspiritus Inc ↗
- Who funds COTTAGE COVE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds Wags and Walks ↗
- Who funds OASIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds My Friend's House Family and Children Services Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS ↗
- Who funds YAIPAK ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ADULT LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds TEAMMATES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOTHER TO MOTHER INC ↗
- Who funds PENCIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HANDS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds HENDERSONVILLE IN-LINE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MAPLE BUILT INC ↗
- Who funds TUCKER'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONROE HARDING INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ENCOURAGEMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Friends Life Community ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Joe C Davis Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Dettwiller Foundation · Carolyn Smith Foundation · The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn
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 organization Nashville Predators 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
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 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.