· Public charity
Riser Foundation
To raise funds through donations from the general public in order to support other nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations and governmental institutions through charitable donations and grants which are to be used for charitable, conservation, educational, literary, medical, religious and/or scientific purposes.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $556,470 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $599,651 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $43,181 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2019
- $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
- $250k+1 grant · $251k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY SCHOOL NASHVILLE | $251,470 |
| LOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL | $100,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $50,000 |
| NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER | $50,000 |
| MUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| THE STORE | $25,000 |
| MARTHA O'BRIEN CENTER | $15,000 |
| FOLLOW YOUR HEART ARTS PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| YWCA | $10,000 |
| NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SILOAM HEALTH | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $75k) 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +228% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $421k 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
- MHMUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INC2× · 2017–2019 · $90k · revenue +228%
NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC2× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +213%- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC2× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +80%
Funded once
CITY OF HOPEone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -25%- NFNURSES FOR NEWBORNSone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +23%
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.
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.
To foster a sustainable network of community health workers and to train frontline public health professionals who possess a deep understanding of and strong ties to the local community.
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…
The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.
Nashville bar association is organized to improve the practice of law through education, service & fellowship
To create a safer nashville through initiatives that engage our community, businesses, and nonprofits to prevent crime, introduce innovation and best practices, and help build the best police department in the nation.
In fulfillment of our mission to inspire a culture of understanding and discovery of our natural world through conservation, innovation and leadership, our goal is to build a first class zoo for middle tennessee and to develop a facility…
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.
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.
Roane County 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.
The mission of the governor's foundation for health and wellness is to encourage and enable more tennesseans to lead healthier lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Follow Your Heart Arts Program Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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.
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 UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds CITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds LOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
- Who funds NURSES FOR NEWBORNS ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE STORE INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SILOAM HEALTH ↗
- Who funds FOLLOW YOUR HEART ARTS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
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 · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Cma Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Marlene and Spencer Hays Foundation · Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Dollar General Literacy 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 Riser 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.