Tennessee · Public charity
Nashville Wine Auction
Nashville Wine Auction engages local and world wine communities to produce wine related events which raise money to fight cancer.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $215,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 11
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Nashville Wine Auction funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $204k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $1.3M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $1.2M | 18% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $608k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $880k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $140k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $395k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $400k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 8 | $300k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $776,994 | 8 | 0% |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | $767,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Saint Thomas Health Foundations | $722,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Gilda's Club Middle Tennessee | $712,500 | 8 | 12% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $502,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee | $475,000 | 8 | 5% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $443,250 | 8 | 0% |
| The Heimerdinger Foundation Inc | $201,500 | 2 | 13% |
| Nashville General Hospital Foundation | $190,500 | 2 | 50% |
| Vanderbilt University | $118,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $776,994 | 8 | 0% |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | $767,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Saint Thomas Health Foundations | $722,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Gilda's Club Middle Tennessee | $712,500 | 8 | 12% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $502,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee | $475,000 | 8 | 5% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $443,250 | 8 | 0% |
| The Heimerdinger Foundation Inc | $201,500 | 2 | 13% |
| Nashville General Hospital Foundation | $190,500 | 2 | 50% |
| Vanderbilt University | $118,500 | 2 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society | $90,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Survivor Fitness Foundation | $85,850 | 3 | 6% |
| Hopekids Inc | $79,269 | 4 | 0% |
| Pearlpoint Cancer Support Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 15% |
Where it is load-bearing
Nashville Wine Auction supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Frist Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Nashville Wine Auction
- How much does Nashville Wine Auction give?
- Nashville Wine Auction reported 12 grants totaling $1,263,530 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Nashville Wine Auction fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (96%), Food & Nutrition (4%).
- Who are Nashville Wine Auction's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Blood Cancer United Inc ($777k), Vanderbilt University Medical Center ($768k), Saint Thomas Health Foundations ($722k).
- Does Nashville Wine Auction fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Nashville Wine Auction?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Memorial Foundation Inc, Hca Healthcare Foundation.
- Where is Nashville Wine Auction based?
- Nashville Wine Auction is based in TN.
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