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Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$359k
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$710kEducation$539kYouth Development$378kHuman Services$328kAnimals$185kHealth$167kPhilanthropy$133kInternational$125kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $109k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $200k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$14k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS$50,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY$25,000
YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$25,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$25,000
PENCIL FOUNDATION$15,000
FISK UNIVERSITY$10,000
SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER$10,000
THISTLE FARMS$10,000
YOUTH VILLAGES MIDDLE TENNESSEE$10,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$10,000
CHEEKWOOD ESTATE & GARDENS$10,000
ADVENTURE SCIENCE CENTER$10,000
GOVERNOR'S EARLY LITERACY FOUNDATION$10,000
THE COLLEGE OF MUSIC AND PERFORMING ART AT BELMONT$10,000
FERGUSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $246k) 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.

area typical 12%ADVANCE INC: $5k → 12%YOUTH VILLAGES: $10k → 14%YOUTH VILLAGES: $10k → 14%YOUTH VILLAGES: $10k → 14%YOUTH VILLAGES: $10k → 14%HEAVEN SOUTH: $5k → 14%HEAVEN SOUTH: $3k → 14%THE STORE: $5k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $2k → 14%DISABILITY RIGHTS TN: $2k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $5k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $25k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $25k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $25k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $25k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $25k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $25k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $15k → 14%ROOFTOP FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%FIFTYFORWARD: $5k → 14%ROOFTOP FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%ROOFTOP FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 88% of Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 81% of the giving stays in TN; read by stated purpose it is 11% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 69 repeat orgs$353k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

69 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
41

Total granted

$2.4M
$275k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+26%

Still filing today

71%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthEnvironmentOther

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

  • YM
    Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273)
    7× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue +21%
  • PF
    PENCIL FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +135%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE TN
    5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • OI
    OPPORTUNITY IN OVERALLS
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -26%
  • TS
    TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
  • AN
    AMERICAN NATIONAL FISH & WILDLIFE MUSEUM
    one grant, 2017 · $25k

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.

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
Kings Academy Nashville

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.

Education
3
Nashville Technology Council

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.

Community Improvement
4
Northeast Tenn Assoc of Realtors

Our mission is to serve our members through education, professionalism, and legislative involvement

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5
Lead Public Schools Inc

Lead public schools exists to prepare all our students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in college and in life.

Education
6
Nashville Bar Association

Nashville bar association is organized to improve the practice of law through education, service & fellowship

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7
Girls Write Nashville

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
9
Leadership Nashville Foundation

Leadership nashville identifies and invites a diverse cross-section of professional, civic and charitable leaders to participate in an intensive program designed to give them a multi-dimensional understanding of the community.

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10
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment
11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
University School of Nashville

University school of nashville models the best educational practices. in an environment that represents the cultural and ethnic composition of metropolian nashville. usn fosters each student's intellectual, artistic, and athletic…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Parks Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Roane County Heritage Commission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%9%<5yr15%2%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr12%20%35–55yr14%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%6%<5yr15%2%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr12%20%35–55yr14%40%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/90
the rest of the field
13%
841/6,720

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

85 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. 85 of the 123 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/85
Grantees still filing
69/85
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MARTY STUARTS CONGRESS OF COUNTRY MUSIC — $200,000 · OtherMARTY STUARTS CONGRESS OF COUNTRY MUSICNATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION — $150,000 · OtherNATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATIONADVENTURE SCIENCE CENTER — $110,000 · OtherADVENTURE SCIENCE CENTERCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS — $90,000 · OtherCUMBERLAND HEIGHTSAMERICAN HOTEL & LODGING EDUCATIONAL FND — $60,000 · OtherTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $55,000 · OtherTHISTLE FARMS INC — $50,000 · OtherAmerican Heart Association Inc — $56,000 · Other+58 more — $493,095 · Other+58 moreTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC — $70,400 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL MUSEU…TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · Arts & CultureTENNESSEE STATE MU…OPPORTUNITY IN OVERALLS — $50,000 · Arts & CultureOPPORTUNITY IN OVE…CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART — $50,000 · Arts & CultureCHEEKWOOD BOTANICA…BELCOURT THEATRE INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureBELCOURT THEATRE I…FRIST ART MUSEUM — $40,000 · Arts & CultureFRIST ART MUSEUMNashville Symphony Association — $30,000 · Arts & CultureNashville Symphony…FRIENDS OF TWO RIVERS MANSION — $23,500 · Arts & CultureTENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION — $22,500 · Arts & CultureANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION — $17,500 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $41,000 · Arts & Culture+6 morePENCIL FOUNDATION — $135,000 · EducationPENCIL FOUNDATIONFISK UNIVERSITY — $109,000 · EducationFISK UNIVERSITYNASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $45,000 · EducationNASHVILLE PUBLIC …NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $28,500 · EducationNASHVILLE PUBLIC …FERGUSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationFERGUSON CHARITAB…+14 more — $73,475 · Education+14 moreYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) — $165,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men'…YOUTH VILLAGES INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILL…THE STORE INC — $12,500 · Human ServicesROOFTOP FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human Services+6 more — $23,500 · Human Services+6 moreBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN — $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentROCKETOWN OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $10,000 · Youth Development100 BLACK MEN OF MIDDLE TN INC — $9,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE TN — $125,000 · InternationalDucks Unlimited Inc — $60,000 · EnvironmentCUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC — $17,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF SHELBY PARK INC — $15,500 · Environment+1 more — $3,000 · Environment
Other$1,264,095Arts & Culture$444,900Education$415,975Human Services$251,000Youth Development$174,000International$125,000Environment$96,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) — $165,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPENCIL FOUNDATION — $135,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE TN — $125,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $120,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFISK UNIVERSITY — $109,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC — $70,400 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc — $60,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $56,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITY IN OVERALLS — $50,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART — $50,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBELCOURT THEATRE INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFRIST ART MUSEUM — $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNashville Symphony Association — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $28,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFERGUSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMATTHEW 25 INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN NATIONAL FISH & WILDLIFE MUSEUM — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF TWO RIVERS MANSION — $23,500 over 3y, 28% of budgetTENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION — $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION — $17,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN — $17,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC — $17,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF SHELBY PARK INC — $15,500 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELI'S HOUSE — $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetROCKETOWN OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STORE INC — $12,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE VICTOR S JOHNSON III NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TENNESSEE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOVERNOR'S EARLY LITERACY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE ZOO INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHANDS ON NASHVILLE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY dba AMERICAN BAPTIST COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROOFTOP FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budget100 BLACK MEN OF MIDDLE TN INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetADMIRALS COVE FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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 Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) ↗
  • Who funds PENCIL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE TN ↗
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds FISK UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY IN OVERALLS ↗
  • Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BELCOURT THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIST ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
  • Who funds Nashville Symphony Association ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds FERGUSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN NATIONAL FISH & WILDLIFE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF TWO RIVERS MANSION ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN ↗
  • Who funds CUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF SHELBY PARK INC ↗
  • Who funds LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC ↗

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.

Memorial Foundation I…Hca Healthcare Founda…The Community Foundat…The Frist FoundationEnchiridion FoundationDorothy Cate and Thom…Joe C Davis FoundationNashville Predators F…The Steven & Laurie E…United Way of Middle …Dettwiller FoundationVanderbilt University
Memorial Foundation IncTN90.5× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ryman Hospitality Properties 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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: 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 123 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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