Tennessee · Private foundation
Prevention Is Key Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $120k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $329k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Prevention Is Key Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 12 | $120k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $109k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $121k | 46% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $59k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $76k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $57k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $60k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $24k | 71% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole Kids Outreach Inc | $75,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Faith Family Medical Center Inc | $55,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Rodale Institute | $40,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Heimerdinger Foundation Inc | $36,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The New Beginnings Center | $35,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Senior Citizens Inc | $33,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Nashville Food Project Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St Marys Foundation for Children Inc | $25,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Southeast Missouri Food Bank Inc | $20,220 | 4 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole Kids Outreach Inc | $75,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Faith Family Medical Center Inc | $55,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Rodale Institute | $40,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Heimerdinger Foundation Inc | $36,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The New Beginnings Center | $35,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Senior Citizens Inc | $33,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Nashville Food Project Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St Marys Foundation for Children Inc | $25,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Southeast Missouri Food Bank Inc | $20,220 | 4 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Learning Lab | $14,990 | 2 | 14% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Poplar Bluff | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Nashville Public Library Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Inspiritus Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Amputee Blade Runners | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Salvus Center Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Raphah Institute | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Medical Center | $2,550 | 1 | 0% |
| Midtown Fellowship Church | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Child Concern Center of Butler County | $2,500 | 1 | 4% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($192k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Prevention Is Key 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: Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · Joe C Davis Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital · Saint Thomas West Hospital · The Melkus Family Foundation · Dettwiller Foundation
How this is measured
About Prevention Is Key Foundation
- How much does Prevention Is Key Foundation give?
- Prevention Is Key Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $120,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Prevention Is Key Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (38%), Food & Nutrition (20%), Human Services (18%).
- Who are Prevention Is Key Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Whole Kids Outreach Inc ($75k), Faith Family Medical Center Inc ($55k), Rodale Institute ($40k).
- Does Prevention Is Key Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Prevention Is Key Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Prevention Is Key Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hca Healthcare Foundation, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Memorial Foundation Inc.
- Where is Prevention Is Key Foundation based?
- Prevention Is Key Foundation is based in TN.
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