· Private foundation
Scarlett Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k118 grants · $749k
- $10k–50k102 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k28 grants · $3.4M
- $250k+10 grants · $3.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY | $443,700 |
| NASHVILLE CLASSICAL | $395,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA NASHVILLE-CHATTANOOGA | $375,000 |
| KIPP NASHVILLE | $350,000 |
| PURPOSE PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $344,020 |
| TENNESSEE EDUCATORS OF COLOR ALLIANCE | $285,000 |
| CONEXION AMERICA | $280,000 |
| OASIS CENTER INC | $252,436 |
| STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION (SCORE) | $250,000 |
| INSTRUCTION PARTNERS | $250,000 |
| AVENTURA COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $230,000 |
| MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER | $220,000 |
| NASHVILLE TEACHER RESIDENCY | $200,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $186,350 |
| DIVERSE LEARNERS COOPERATIVE | $175,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +32% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
440 repeat relationships — 131 still active in FY2025, 309 since wound down; 127 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M 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
- LULIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +41%
- KNKIPP NASHVILLE6× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +128%
- LPLEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +19%
Funded once
- NVNEW VENTURE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $250k
- DLDIVERSE LEARNERS COOPERATIVEone grant, 2024 · $175k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $150k
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.
Intrepid college prep is committed to ensuring our scholars, educators, and families have the opportunity to unlock an unlimited future. by providing rigorous academic instruction and creating powerful relationships amongst our community's…
The episcopal school of nashville, a diverse urban independent school, is dedicated to nurturing the joy of learning and the spirit of discovery in each of its students.
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.
The new american academy charter school empowers learners and inspires leaders to make this a better world. through our collaborative teacher teams, mastery-based career ladder, and looping cycles, we offer personalized rigorous…
Tennessee educational cooperative's mission is to help all children reach their potential by partnering with parents, schools and communities.
Opportunity nashville is an advocacy organization focused on improving educational equity in nashville. our mission is to ensure that every child in nashville has access to a high-quality public education.
To promote excellence in the metropolitan nashville public school system, to seek significant support for public education from the community, to pursue economic and professional security for all educators, to maintain a strong united…
Equal opportunity schools' mission is to strengthen educator and system leader capacity to break down barriers to increase access, belonging, and success in rigorous college and career-prep secondary school courses for students of color…
The nashville area chamber of commerce facilitates community leadership to create economic prosperity.
To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…
To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community
The Nashville Freedom School Partnership(C) uses literacy to instill cultural pride, self-assurance, and active citizenship with a primary focus on children of color.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Public Education Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Ayers Foundation Trust. 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 16 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 783 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KIPP NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds CONEXION AMERICAS ↗
- Who funds LEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OASIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INSTRUCTION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds VALOR COLLEGIATE ACADEMIES ↗
- Who funds Nashville Teacher Residency ↗
- Who funds PURPOSE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STEM PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PENCIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STRIVE COLLEGIATE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ADULT LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds THE NASHVILLE CHAMBER PUBLIC BENEFIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE COLLEGE ACCESS AND SUCCESS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE CHARTER SCHOOL CENTER ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEANS FOR QUALITY EARLY EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds DIVERSE LEARNERS COOPERATIVE ↗
- Who funds RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds 50CAN INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Tennessee Educators of Color Alliance N ↗
- Who funds AVENTURA COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
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: Joe C Davis Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · City Fund · Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education · Nashville Predators Foundation · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc
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 Scarlett Family 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.
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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