· Private foundation
Reynolds Family 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 $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $352k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $40,000 |
| SILOAM | $35,000 |
| TENNESSEE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION | $35,000 |
| LEARNING MATTERS | $25,000 |
| MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER | $25,000 |
| BACKFIELD IN MOTION | $25,000 |
| PRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| OASIS CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $20,000 |
| MCNEILLY CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $18,000 |
| WO SMITH COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL | $17,000 |
| MUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| A STEP AHEAD MIDDLE TN | $15,000 |
| NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT | $12,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- OCOASIS CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $192k · revenue +57%
- MOMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $161k · revenue +153%
- TITENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION7× · 2019–2025 · $136k · revenue +149%
Funded once
- MMUSICARESone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Enhance reading skills for at risk children
Girls write nashville empowers expression through songwriting, production, mentorship and creative community for teen artists. we are an artist and educator-led 501(c)(3) creative youth development program in nashville, tn allied with…
Nashville inner city ministry is a christ-centered community organization dedicated to empowering the spiritual, educational and vocational development of at-risk youth and their families.
The Nashville Freedom School Partnership(C) uses literacy to instill cultural pride, self-assurance, and active citizenship with a primary focus on children of color.
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…
Opportunity nashville is an advocacy organization focused on improving educational equity in nashville. our mission is to ensure that every child in nashville has access to a high-quality public education.
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.
The episcopal school of nashville, a diverse urban independent school, is dedicated to nurturing the joy of learning and the spirit of discovery in each of its students.
Provide needy families and individuals with rent and utilities assistance in order to prevent their eviction or termination of utility services. also provide food and other assistance to needy families and individuals.
Through rigorous curriculum, high-quality instruction, and positive character development, purpose preparatory academy charter school ensures that all kindergarten through grade four students achieve the academic skills, knowledge, and…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oasis Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bridges. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 25 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 OASIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION ↗
- Who funds BACKFIELD IN MOTION ↗
- Who funds LEARNING MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds WO SMITH NASHVILLE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MCNEILLY CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds Book Em ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE BOOK CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Joe C Davis Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · The Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Junior League of Nashville Inc · Lifepoint Community 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 Reynolds Family 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.