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Nashville Rotary Service Trust
Support charitable organizations
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 4 grants below total $104,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $106,090 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,090 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
- $10k–50k3 grants · $44k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $60,000 |
| BOOK' EM | $17,500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREAT NASH | $16,500 |
| FRANKLIN NOON ROTARY CHARITY FOUND | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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 +52% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $590k · revenue +80%
- BEBook Em9× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +34%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE7× · 2019–2025 · $127k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- CACONEXION AMERICASone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -22%
- OTOPEN TABLE OF NASHVILLE INCone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -39%
- NPNASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -50%
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.
The nashville chamber public benefit foundation supports the work of the nashville area chamber of commerce through efforts to improve the quality of education, encourage public and private efforts around education, and to facilitate the…
The nashville area chamber of commerce facilitates community leadership to create economic prosperity.
We partner with Hands in Service, a non-governmental Christian non-profit organization in Uganda, East Africa that operates vocational training programs for young people in welding, mechanics, sustainable agriculture and agro-forestry. We…
Education
The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.
People who have just been released from prison are typically stigmatized, overlooked, and pigeonholed by society. when they walk into project return, they discover that here they are valued, heard, and encouraged. while reduction of…
Nashville Book Connection (NBC) connects kids with books they love to nurture their reader identities - at home and in the classroom. Trained volunteers roll colorful book carts of new books (curated for diversity, meaning, and relevancy)…
The mission of the NCC is to ensure that every child in Nashville has access to a high-quality public school. 1 in every 5 Nashville public school students is enrolled in a charter school. The Nashville Charter Collaborative advocates on…
Nashvillehealth creates a culture of health and wellbeing by serving as a convener to open dialogue, aligning resources and building smart strategic partnerships to create a plan for health unique to nashvilles needs.
Cwjc middle tn empowers individuals to overcome obstacles caused by poverty by providing education, mentoring, and resources.
The mission of the Nashville International Center for Empowerment is to ensure refugees and immigrants achieve their full potential now and for generations to come.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oasis Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Haiti Education and Resource Team Inc (Heart). Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
- Who funds Book Em ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds CONEXION AMERICAS ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds MOVES AND GROOVES INC ↗
- Who funds OASIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN TABLE OF NASHVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Joseph School Inc ↗
- Who funds YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN NOON ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds HAITI EDUCATION and RESOURCE TEAM INC (HEART) ↗
- Who funds BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Rotary Service Trust 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.
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.