How much did RISER FOUNDATION grant in FY2019?

RISER FOUNDATION reported 11 grants totaling $599,651 in its FY2019 IRS filing.

Where is RISER FOUNDATION based?

RISER FOUNDATION is based in TN.

RISER FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· 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.

$600k

Granted FY2019

Grants

Communities

$251k

Largest

01What you fund

0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2019.

Education$386kHealth$190kHousing & Shelter$75kFood & Nutrition$75kHuman Services$75kReligion$15kOther$30k

02FY2019 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

$10k–50k7 grants · $105k
$50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$250k+1 grant · $251k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$683k

Total assets

Largest grants

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
THE STORE$25,000
MUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE$25,000
MARTHA O'BRIEN CENTER$15,000
NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$10,000
YWCA$10,000
SILOAM HEALTH$10,000
FOLLOW YOUR HEART ARTS PROGRAM$10,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$275k · 4 repeat orgs$571k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +213% since the first grant, against +100% 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$275k

$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+213%

+100%

Still filing today

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $421k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthReligionHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther

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

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MUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE
2× · 2017–2019 · $90k · revenue +97%
NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER
2× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +213%
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SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE
2× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +71%

Funded once

CITY OF HOPE
one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -36%
NF
NURSES FOR NEWBORNSgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +100%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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 Cares

Nashville cares mission is to end the hiv/aids epidemic in middle tennessee.

Health

Stars Nashville

Supports young people through the social and emotional barriers they face. our five evidence-based school and community programs address issues like bullying prevention, substance misuse, violence and other mental health issues. in…

Health

Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio is a non-profit, non-commercial public media service. nashville public radio's mission is to create and deliver content essential to understanding your world.

Arts & Culture

Nashville Public Television Inc

Arts & Culture

Oasis Center Inc

Oasis center is one of the nation's leading youthserving organizations, offering safety and intervention to nashville's most vulnerable youth, while seeking to also teach young people how to transform the conditions that create problems…

Community Improvement

Mercy Health Services Inc

Mercy health services, inc. reflects the love of jesus christ by providing quality healthcare to the insured and uninsured.

Health

Nashville Academy Theatre and

Nashville children's theatre is a professional theatre company providing the children, families, and educators of middle tennessee with extraordinary shared theatrical experiences that inspire imagination, develop creativity, and build…

Arts & Culture

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

United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc

Uwgn unites the community and mobilizes resources so that every child, individual & family thrives

Philanthropy

Nashville Zoo Inc

To continue to grow and provide a park/facility that is recognized for excellence in animal care, innovative design and global conservation while delivering strong educational and community value.

Animals

Habitat for Humanity of Greater

Habitat for humanity of greater nashville provides the life-changing opportunity for people to purchase and own quality, affordable homes. habitat family partnerships enable dignity of life for those who choose it and work to achieve it,…

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Nashville Technology Council

Leading voice & advocate for middle tn's information technology ecosystem & tech professionals.

Community Improvement

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 Nashville Public Library Foundation. 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

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

12/13

Grantees still filing

11/13

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$386,470Health$190,001Housing & Shelter$75,000Food & Nutrition$75,000Human Services$75,000Other$30,000Religion$15,000

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.

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.

The Community Foundation of MiddleTN23× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle · Memorial Foundation Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Boulevard Bolt Inc · The Cma Foundation · The Healing Trust · Hca Healthcare Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators 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 organisation 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.

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typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FOLLOW YOUR HEART ARTS PROGRAM.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 815120647 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FOLLOW YOUR HEART ARTS PROGRAM, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 13% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Riser Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Riser Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

RISER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Riser Foundation?

More from the funding graph

RISER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Riser Foundation?

More from the funding graph