How much did NASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION grant in FY2023?

Health$2.5MHuman Services$1.3MRecreation & Sports$567kEducation$551kYouth Development$318kPhilanthropy$280kArts & Culture$266kAnimals$202kCommunity Improvement$154kOther$2.7M

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

2019

plant seedparentinghockey youthinstallationanimal careyouth disabilitiescharacter

2020

coffee shopveteranemploymentpediatriclaunchingconferenceproductions

2021

middle donationsmonroe hardingministry donationsministries donationsprosthesesshelbyriding

2022

informationdevicessincelegalaimexhibitscontain

2023

boxesfranklinoftenthrive studiosescaleraaddcoaching

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 70 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k46 grants · $342k
$10k–50k18 grants · $259k
$50k–250k5 grants · $435k
$250k+1 grant · $281k

$8,400

Median grant

States reached

$1.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

MONROE CARELL JR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT VANDERBILT$280,730
KABOOM$121,000
NASHVILLE PREDATORS$109,258
YWCA OF NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TN$100,000
CAFE MOMENTUM NASHVILLE CORPORATION$54,534
PERSIST NASHVILLE INC$50,000
YAIPAK OUTREACH$40,400
WAGS & WALKS NASHVILLE$30,000
MAKE-A-WISH MIDDLE TENNESSEE$25,605
MTSU FOUNDATION$15,000
NURTURE THE NEXT$14,430
COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC$12,455
MURFREESBORO CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT$10,758
TULLAHOMA SOUTH JACKSON CIVIC ASSOCIATION$10,000
FOOD FOR THE SOUL$10,000

02The need

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 (FY18–23, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 73% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.5M · 100 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.

100 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2023, 59 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

100

142

Total granted

$6.5M

$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%

+50%

Still filing today

86%

79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $329k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

VC
VANDERBILT CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
6× · 2018–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +67%
YWCA OF NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TN TOTAL
5× · 2019–2023 · $550k · revenue +40%
PF
PETERSON FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSONS
4× · 2018–2021 · $221k · revenue +302% · 58% of their budget

Funded once

YO
YMCA OF NASHVILLE AD MIDDLE TN
one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +21%
UW
UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN NASHVILLEgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +76%
TC
THE CROSSROADS CAMPUSgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +176%

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.

Nashville Cares

Nashville cares mission is to end the hiv/aids epidemic in middle tennessee.

Health

Hope House of Tennessee Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter

Nashville Technology Council

Leading voice & advocate for middle tn's information technology ecosystem & tech professionals.

Community Improvement

Childrens House of Nashville Inc

The children's house is a montessori preschool and kindergarten that guides a diverse group of children to be joyful, lifelong learners who respect others.

Human Services

Park Center Inc

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…

Employment

Tennessee Alliance for Kids

Tak meets essential needs to comfort children, empower youth, and offer hope to families impacted by foster care in tennessee.

Human Services

Tennessee Justice Center Inc

Tjc uses the law and advocacy to ensure that tennesseans can meet their most basic needs.

Crime & Legal

Tennessee Voices for Children

Tnv's mission is to be the collaborative leader guiding mental health transformation.

Health

The Victor S Johnson Iii

The mission of the nashville children's alliance is to reduce the trauma of child abuse victims and their families by facilitating a comprehensive multi-disciplinary team approach to the detection, investigation, prosecution and treatment…

Crime & Legal

Youth Town of Tennessee Inc

Youth alcohol, drug, and behavioral rehabilitation

Human Services

East Tennessee Children's Hospital

At etch, children are our only concern, providing the best healthcare to every child served.

Health

East Nashville Hope Exchange Inc

Enhance reading skills for at risk children

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Middle and the most unlike its peers is St Bonaventure University. 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 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/270

the rest of the field

11%

884/7,784

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.

05the grantee network

226 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

220/226

Grantees still filing

185/226

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Health$2,456,607Other$3,271,504Human Services$1,252,961Recreation & Sports$567,291Education$550,793Youth Development$317,501Philanthropy$279,831

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.

Memorial Foundation IncTN152.8× affinity80 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Memorial Foundation Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle · The Frist Foundation · The Healing Trust · Joe C Davis Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist · The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc · Boulevard Bolt Inc · T & T Family Foundation · Carolyn Smith 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 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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: READ TO ACHIEVE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 141902882 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 READ TO ACHIEVE, 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.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 77% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 Predators Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Nashville Predators 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.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

226 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Nashville Predators Foundation?

More from the funding graph

NASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

226 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Nashville Predators Foundation?

More from the funding graph