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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
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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.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$120k8%
FY202413$109k8%
FY202313$121k46%
FY202210$59k30%
FY202113$76k31%
FY202010$57k20%
FY201910$60k50%
FY20187$24k71%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$255kFood & Nutrition$136kHuman Services$121kPhilanthropy$44kYouth Development$37kEducation$36kRecreation & Sports$25kScience & Tech$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Whole Kids Outreach Inc$75,00071%
Faith Family Medical Center Inc$55,00080%
Rodale Institute$40,00050%
The Heimerdinger Foundation Inc$36,00052%
The New Beginnings Center$35,00042%
Senior Citizens Inc$33,00040%
Nashville Food Project Inc$30,00050%
St Marys Foundation for Children Inc$25,00060%
Southeast Missouri Food Bank Inc$20,22040%
Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools$16,0002n/a
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All grantees of Prevention Is Key Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Whole Kids Outreach Inc$75,00071%
Faith Family Medical Center Inc$55,00080%
Rodale Institute$40,00050%
The Heimerdinger Foundation Inc$36,00052%
The New Beginnings Center$35,00042%
Senior Citizens Inc$33,00040%
Nashville Food Project Inc$30,00050%
St Marys Foundation for Children Inc$25,00060%
Southeast Missouri Food Bank Inc$20,22040%
Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools$16,0002n/a
Learning Lab$14,990214%
Boys & Girls Club of Poplar Bluff$10,00021%
Nashville Public Library Foundation$10,00020%
Inspiritus Inc$10,00010%
Amputee Blade Runners$10,00021%
Salvus Center Inc$8,00013%
Raphah Institute$5,00010%
United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc$5,00010%
Children's Hospital Medical Center$2,55010%
Midtown Fellowship Church$2,5001n/a
Child Concern Center of Butler County$2,50014%

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.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWhole Kids Outreach Inc: $75,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetFaith Family Medical Center Inc: $55,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetRodale Institute: $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Heimerdinger Foundation Inc: $36,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetThe New Beginnings Center: $35,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetSenior Citizens Inc: $33,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNashville Food Project Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSt Marys Foundation for Children Inc: $25,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSoutheast Missouri Food Bank Inc: $20,220 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLearning Lab: $14,990 over 2y, 14% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Poplar Bluff: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNashville Public Library Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInspiritus Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmputee Blade Runners: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSalvus Center Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetRaphah Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Way of Middle Tennessee Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Medical Center: $2,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChild Concern Center of Butler County: $2,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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 FoundationTN23.6× affinity9 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 · 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
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.

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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.

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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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