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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.

$113k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Education$386kHealth$250kFood & Nutrition$100kHousing & Shelter$75kHuman Services$25kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $110,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $112,652 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,652 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$423k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Store$50,000
Music Health Alliance$50,000
Green Hills Family YMCA$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $135k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Green Hills Family YMCA: $10k → 14%The Store: $50k → 14%THE STORE: $25k → 14%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $50k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$400k · 5 repeat orgs$556k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +213% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$400k
$546k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+213%
+44%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthReligionHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MH
    MUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
    3× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +228%
  • NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +213%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • US
    UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE
    one grant, 2019 · $251k · revenue +21%
  • CITY OF HOPE
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -33%
  • LO
    LOVE ONE INTERNATIONALgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +173%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Nashville Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Nashville Cares

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.

Health
3
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
4
Impacthealth-Tn

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.

Human Services
5
United Neighborhood Health Services Inc

United neighborhood health services, inc. dba neighborhood health operates health care centers located in the state of tennessee in the counties of davidson, wilson, and sumner. the center provides a broad range of health services to a…

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6
University Community Health Service

To provide accessible affordable, holistic healthcare to patients across the lifespan with a special focus on vulnerable populations, within a financially sustainable delivery model. further, uchs supports health professions education,…

Health
7
Nashville Food Project Inc

The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food to cultivate community and alleviate hunger. through community food access, agriculture, education, and strategic partnerships, we work toward a…

Food & Nutrition
8
Roane County Medical Center

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.

Health
9
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist 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.

Health
10
East Nashville Wellness Center

The mission of east nashville wellness center is to restore the wellness of nashvillians through improving mental health, curbing addiction, and helping to find the music again.

Health
11
Needlink Nashville

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.

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12
Nashville Public Media Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc; the most unlike its peers is Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273). 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

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE: $251,470 · EducationUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLELOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL: $100,000 · EducationLOVE ONE INTERNATIONALNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EducationNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONMUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INC: $140,000 · HealthMUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INCCITY OF HOPE: $100,001 · HealthCITY OF HOPETHE STORE INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesTHE STORE INCNURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $50,000 · Human ServicesNURSES FOR NEWB…Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273): $10,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Chr…NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $75,000 · Food & NutritionFOLLOW YOUR HEART ARTS PROGRAM INC: $10,000 · OtherSILOAM HEALTH: $10,000 · OtherYWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $10,000 · OtherMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC: $15,000 · Religion
Education$386,470Health$240,001Human Services$135,000Housing & Shelter$75,000Food & Nutrition$75,000Other$30,000Religion$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE: $251,470 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INC: $140,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetCITY OF HOPE: $100,001 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL: $100,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetNASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC: $75,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STORE INC: $75,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOLLOW YOUR HEART ARTS PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetYWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Memorial Foundation I…Raymond James Charita…The Cma FoundationHca Healthcare Founda…The Community Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Marlene and Spencer H…Ryman Hospitality Pro…The Blum Family Found…The Healing Trust For…Publix Super Markets …Dollar General Litera…
Memorial Foundation IncTN17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Riser Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Riser Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 14 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 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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