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Patricia and Rodes Hart Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Patricia and Rodes Hart Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$311k
Granted FY2022
13
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$6.4MAnimals$1.1MHuman Services$1.0MPhilanthropy$777kHealth$705kReligion$288kFood & Nutrition$211kInternational$144kOther$0
02FY2022 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k8 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANDERBILT - VARIOUS$200,000
NASHVILLE SYMPHONY$50,000
NASHVILLE OPERA ASSOCIATION INC$25,000
THE RETREAT$12,500
COUNCIL ON AGING$10,000
CHEEKWOOD ESTATE & GARDENS$3,500
FAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER$3,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$2,500
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS$1,500
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA$1,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS TENNESSEE$500
SAFPAW$500
ROOM IN THE INN$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $900k) 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%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CZECH REPUB: $35k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CZECH REPUB: $25k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CZECH REPUB: $25k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CZECH REPUB: $10k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CZECH REPUB: $10k → 14%MY FRIEND'S HOUSE: $500 → 4%MY FRIEND'S HOUSE: $500 → 4%FANNIE BATTLE DAY HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 14%FANNIE BATTLE DAY HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 14%FANNIE BATTLE DAY HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $500k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $90k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $69k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $51k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $42k → 14%MUSIC FOR SENIORS: $20k → 14%MUSIC FOR SENIORS: $10k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $6k → 14%MUSIC FOR SENIORS: $3k → 14%MUSIC FOR SENIORS: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
MN
IL
NY
CO
KY
VA
MD
TN
DC
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 54 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2022, 42 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
31

Total granted

$10M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+30%

Still filing today

69%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationAnimalsInternationalOther
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

  • NZ
    NASHVILLE ZOO INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +23%
  • SC
    SENIOR CITIZENS INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $752k · revenue +55%
  • SI
    STARS INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $633k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • E
    ENSWORTH
    one grant, 2017 · $750k
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +58%
  • LU
    LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +33%
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
Nashville Cares

Nashville cares exists to end the hiv epidemic, promote comprehensive sexual health and end sexual health stigmatization and discrimination through prevention, education, treatment, support, advocacy, and strategic partnership.

Health
2
Nashville Public Media Inc

Nashville banner is a locally owned, community supported, civic news organization. we exist to empower the people of nashville to make informed decisions by providing non-partisan journalism from an independent, nonprofit newsroom. we are…

Arts & Culture
3
Nashville Academy of Medicine and Davidson County Medical Society

The nashville academy of medicine is dedicated to supporting physicians in greater nashville who provide quality medical care and are pledged to uphold high standards of conduct. we promote physician health, practice health, and community…

Community Improvement
4
Tennessee Health Care Association

To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.

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5
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
6
Ut Medical Group Inc

To be a successful physician led, professionally managed medical practice that benefits our patients and our community, while supporting the UT Health Science Center's mission through clinical excellence, financial responsibility and a…

Health
7
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
8
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
9
Kings Academy Nashville

King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.

Education
10
Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc

Lead our community's efforts to house, support, empower and advocate for families experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
11
Nashville Technology Council

Ntc mission is to advance the diverse technology ecosystem by connecting and promoting members, attracting, growing and retaining tech talent, and providing opportunities to reinvest in the greater nashville community.

Community Improvement
12
Tennessee Academy of Family Physicians

Empowering family physicians to lead in advancing healthcare and advocating for their patients, communities, and profession.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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

60 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. 60 of the 89 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/60
Grantees still filing
45/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VANDERBILT -VARIOUS: $5,228,500 · OtherVANDERBILT -VARIOUSENSWORTH: $750,000 · OtherENSWORTHUNITED WAY OF WILLIAMSON: $705,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF WILLIAMSON+49 more: $952,170 · Other+49 moreNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $1,065,000 · AnimalsNASHVILLE …+4 more: $15,850 · AnimalsMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $500,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLIT…CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $272,050 · Arts & CultureCHEEKWOOD …Nashville Symphony Association: $180,000 · Arts & CultureNashville …NASHVILLE OPERA ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE …+3 more: $6,600 · Arts & CultureSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $751,720 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC: $105,000 · Human ServicesMUSIC FOR SENIORS: $33,500 · Human Services+4 more: $11,000 · Human ServicesSTARS INC: $632,500 · Health+9 more: $39,882 · HealthNASHVILLE COACHING COALITION: $90,000 · EducationCURREY INGRAM ACADEMY: $21,000 · EducationTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Education+2 more: $2,000 · EducationBRIDGES: $130,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $11,000 · International
Other$7,635,670Animals$1,080,850Arts & Culture$1,058,650Human Services$901,220Health$672,382Education$143,000International$141,500

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 budgetNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $1,065,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $751,720 over 5y, 11% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $272,050 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetNashville Symphony Association: $180,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC: $105,000 over 5y, 44% of budgetNASHVILLE OPERA ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetNASHVILLE COACHING COALITION: $90,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC FOR SENIORS: $33,500 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBACKFIELD IN MOTION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCURREY INGRAM ACADEMY: $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VICTOR S JOHNSON III NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYFORD CAY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABE'S GARDEN: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALIVE HOSPICE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARPETH CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $3,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS TENNESSEE INC: $3,450 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $3,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMCNEILLY CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSADDLE UP: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFANNIE BATTLE DAY HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO: $2,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP NASHVILLE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMENDING HEARTS INC: $1,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPARK CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALDENS PUDDLE WILDLIFE REHABILITATION & EDUCATIO: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHealthy Tennessee: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHOMEWORK HOTLINE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHIGH HOPES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

  • Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO INC ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
  • Who funds STARS INC ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds Nashville Symphony Association ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGES ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE COACHING COALITION ↗
  • Who funds LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC FOR SENIORS ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY INC ↗
  • Who funds BACKFIELD IN MOTION ↗
  • Who funds CURREY INGRAM ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE VICTOR S JOHNSON III NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds FAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC ↗
  • Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
  • Who funds LYFORD CAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗

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.

Hca Healthcare Founda…The Community Foundat…Memorial Foundation I…Dorothy Cate and Thom…The Frist FoundationUnited Way of Middle …The Steven & Laurie E…Joe C Davis FoundationThe Wade-Buntin Famil…Nashville Predators F…The Blum Family Found…Louie M & Betty M Phi…
Hca Healthcare FoundationTN54.7× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn

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 Patricia and Rodes Hart Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Patricia and Rodes Hart Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Patricia and Rodes Hart Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Patricia and Rodes Hart Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 89 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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