· 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $855k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $395k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION | $75,000 |
| DISCOVERY CENTER | $70,000 |
| DETROIT EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY | $50,000 |
| ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER | $50,000 |
| GRAMMY MUSEUM MISSISSIPPI | $50,000 |
| NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM | $40,000 |
| TANENBAUM CENTER FOR INTERRELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING | $35,000 |
| THE FOWLER MUSEUM AT UCLA | $30,000 |
| THE INTERFAITH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT | $30,000 |
| ONE TO WORLD | $30,000 |
| DREAMYARD PROJECT | $30,000 |
| FRIST ART MUSEUM | $30,000 |
| JEWISH CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $452k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +49% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 15 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k 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
- NPNASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $600k · revenue +24%
- CMCHILDRENS MUSEUM CORPORATION OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC6× · 2017–2023 · $415k · revenue +52%
- OCOASIS CENTER INC7× · 2017–2025 · $375k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INCone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -2%
- AAAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR STATE AND LOCAL HISTORYone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +10%
- ADARTES DE LA ROSA INCone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -32%
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 museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
The mint museum welcomes all to be inspired and transformed through the power of art and creativity.
Nmoa mission statement is: we welcome everyone with inclusive experiences that spark curiosity and foster community.
The studio museum in harlem is a contemporary art museum that focuses on the work of artists of african descent - as well as work that has been inspired and influenced by african culture - past and present; through its exhibitions,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan and the most unlike its peers is Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville. 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
51 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. 51 of the 67 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS MUSEUM CORPORATION OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OASIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TANENBAUM CENTER FOR INTERRELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds Global Education Center ↗
- Who funds ONE TO WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Fernbank Inc ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY ↗
- Who funds JOBS FOR MISSISSIPPI GRADUATES INC ↗
- Who funds STARS NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S ↗
- Who funds Native American Indian Association of Tennessee ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF MAN DBA MUSEUM OF US ↗
- Who funds Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
- Who funds YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds CONNECTING CULTURES MOBILE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTICULTURAL WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIST ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
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: 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
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 Nissan 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.
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.