Tennessee · Private foundation
Nissan Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 37
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Nissan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 43 | $1.2M | 35% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $1.2M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $818k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $1.3M | 17% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $730k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $705k | 7% |
| FY2017 | 29 | $710k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nashville Public Television Inc | $600,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Childrens Museum Corporation of Rutherford County Inc | $415,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Oasis Center Inc | $375,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Nashville Public Library Foundation | $305,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Japanese American National Museum | $255,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding | $252,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Atlanta Historical Society Inc | $230,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Detroit Public Media | $210,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Global Education Center | $200,000 | 7 | 15% |
| One to World Inc | $195,000 | 7 | 4% |
Show all 50 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($842k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Nissan Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Enchiridion Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation
How this is measured
About Nissan Foundation
- How much does Nissan Foundation give?
- Nissan Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $1,255,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Nissan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (61%), Youth Development (9%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Nissan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Nashville Public Television Inc ($600k), Childrens Museum Corporation of Rutherford County Inc ($415k), Oasis Center Inc ($375k).
- Does Nissan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nissan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Nissan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Memorial Foundation Inc, Hca Healthcare Foundation, Dollar General Literacy Foundation.
- Where is Nissan Foundation based?
- Nissan Foundation is based in TN.
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