· Private foundation
Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY | $25,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $25,000 |
| YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $25,000 |
| PENCIL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER | $10,000 |
| FERGUSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHEEKWOOD ESTATE & GARDENS | $10,000 |
| FISK UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| ADVENTURE SCIENCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| GOVERNOR'S EARLY LITERACY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THISTLE FARMS | $10,000 |
| THE COLLEGE OF MUSIC AND PERFORMING ART AT BELMONT | $10,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $10,000 |
| MIDDLE TENNESSEE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 88% of Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 81% of the giving stays in TN; by stated purpose, 11%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273)7× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue +21%
- PFPENCIL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +135%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE TN5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- OIOPPORTUNITY IN OVERALLSone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -26%
- TSTENNESSEE STATE MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $40k
- ANAMERICAN NATIONAL FISH & WILDLIFE MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Our mission is to serve our members through education, professionalism, and legislative involvement
Lead public schools exists to prepare all our students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in college and in life.
Nashville bar association is organized to improve the practice of law through education, service & fellowship
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…
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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.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
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.
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…
How this is measured
85 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY IN OVERALLS ↗
- Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIST ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds BELCOURT THEATRE 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 MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
- Who funds LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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