Tennessee · Private foundation
Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $359k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 55
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 40 | $334k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $327k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $280k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $243k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $302k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $222k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 44 | $343k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 55 | $321k | 31% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) | $165,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Pencil Foundation | $135,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement of Middle Tn | $125,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Boy Scouts of America 560 Middle Tennessee | $120,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Fisk University | $109,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The National Museum of African American Music | $70,400 | 5 | 0% |
| Ducks Unlimited Inc | $60,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Tennessee State Museum Foundation Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 17% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $56,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Opportunity in Overalls | $50,000 | 1 | 7% |
Show all 88 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($857k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 75 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · Enchiridion Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dettwiller Foundation · Vanderbilt University
How this is measured
Compare Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation with peer funders
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About Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation
- How much does Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation give?
- Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $359,150 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 55 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (26%), Education (19%), Youth Development (14%).
- Who are Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) ($165k), Pencil Foundation ($135k), Junior Achievement of Middle Tn ($125k).
- Does Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Memorial Foundation Inc, Hca Healthcare Foundation, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc.
- Where is Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation based?
- Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation is based in TN.
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