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$106k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$590kEducation$230kHuman Services$205kHousing & Shelter$157kYouth Development$80kPhilanthropy$11kReligion$10kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $104,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $106,090 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,090 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $44k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$17,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Conexion- Casa Azafran Project: $100k → 14%BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE: $45k → 14%BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE: $23k → 14%BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE: $23k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 8 repeat orgs$216k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against -6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$1.1M
$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
-6%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $590k · revenue +80%
  • BE
    Book Em
    9× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +53%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $127k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • CA
    CONEXION AMERICAS
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -22%
  • OT
    OPEN TABLE OF NASHVILLE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -39%
  • NP
    NASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -50%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
One Family Memphis
Human Services
2
The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation

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…

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3
Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce

The nashville area chamber of commerce facilitates community leadership to create economic prosperity.

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4
Christian Fellowship of Nashville

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…

Religion
5
Tennessee Geographic Alliance

Education

Education
6
Nashville Food Project Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
7
Project Return Inc

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…

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8
Nashville Book Connection

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)…

Arts & Culture
9
Nashville Charter Collaborative

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…

Education
10
Nashvillehealth

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.

Health
11
Begin Anew

Cwjc middle tn empowers individuals to overcome obstacles caused by poverty by providing education, mentoring, and resources.

Religion
12
Nashville International Center for Empowerment

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oasis Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $590,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INCBook Em: $150,000 · EducationBook EmLEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $35,000 · EducationLEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS …NASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationNASHVILLE PUBLIC EDU…The Joseph School Inc: $15,000 · EducationThe Joseph School In…+1 more: $5,000 · EducationCONEXION AMERICAS: $100,000 · Human ServicesCONEXION AMERICA…BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE: $90,000 · Human ServicesBETHLEHEM CENTER…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE: $126,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HU…YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $15,000 · OtherYWCA NASHVILLE…LUTHERAN SERVICES IN TENNESSEE INC: $10,000 · OtherLUTHERAN SERVI…UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $11,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF …+1 more: $5,000 · OtherOASIS CENTER INC: $40,000 · Community ImprovementFRANKLIN NOON ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementMOVES AND GROOVES INC: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentOPEN TABLE OF NASHVILLE INC: $30,000 · Housing & Shelter
Food & Nutrition$590,000Education$235,000Human Services$190,000Other$167,500Community Improvement$50,000Youth Development$40,000Housing & Shelter$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $590,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBook Em: $150,000 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE: $126,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCONEXION AMERICAS: $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE: $90,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetMOVES AND GROOVES INC: $40,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetOASIS CENTER INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN TABLE OF NASHVILLE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Joseph School Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetYWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…United Way of Middle …Hca Healthcare Founda…The Frist FoundationNashville Predators F…Memorial Foundation I…Dollar General Litera…The Bank of America C…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN20.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Nashville Rotary Service Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nashville Rotary Service Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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