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Sandra Schatten Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $293k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $493k
- $250k+2 grants · $982k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $731,500 |
| CENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $250,000 |
| THE FRIST CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS | $167,500 |
| NASHVILLE BALLET | $137,602 |
| CHEEKWOOD | $78,000 |
| EQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION | $57,830 |
| TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $51,600 |
| NASHVILLE SYMPHONY | $40,000 |
| TENNESSEE FREEDOM CIRCLE EDUCATION FUND | $30,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TN | $30,000 |
| THIS IS NOTEWORTHY | $25,000 |
| NASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO | $25,000 |
| OZ ARTS NASHVILLE | $25,000 |
| NASHVILLE PUBLIC MEDIA | $25,000 |
| THE PORCH | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $326k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CPCENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY6× · 2019–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +131%
- NPNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +367%
FRIST ART MUSEUM7× · 2018–2024 · $833k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- FTFORWARD TNone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -29%
- TATENNESSEE ALLIANCEone grant, 2019 · $24k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
The mission of the Tennessee Aquarium is to connect people with nature and empower them to make informed decisions about water and wildlife.
Tennessee progress works to uplift the values and voices of the progressive movement across tennessee by elevating the issues that matter most to our communities. tennessee progress is a digital and communications hub for the progressive…
To bravely imagine the power and passion of opera and who can sing and enjoy it.
The organization's primary mission is conserving land where people and nature can thrive by creating green corridors linking existing public lands using conservation easments and outright purchase.
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…
The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The nashville chamber public benefit foundation supports the work of the nashville area chamber of commerce through efforts to improve the quality of education, encourage public and private efforts around education, and to facilitate the…
Arts & business council of greater nashville supports and promotes the arts by driving collaboration between arts and business that contribute to the creativity, vitality, and prosperity of greater nashville/the regions/the city.
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.
The nashville area chamber of commerce facilitates community leadership to create economic prosperity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centennial Park Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc. 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 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
48 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. 48 of the 85 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds CENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIST ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE BALLET ↗
- Who funds EQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds Nashville Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds GREENWAYS FOR NASHVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC DESIGN CENTER ↗
- Who funds Larkspur Conservation ↗
- Who funds HUMANITIES TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds BELCOURT THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE FREEDOM CIRCLE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds FORWARD TN ↗
- Who funds THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds HARPETH CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds DOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Enchiridion Foundation · The Joel C & Bernice W Gordon Family Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation · Ebs 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 organization Sandra Schatten 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.
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
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.
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