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Shoba Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$129k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Environment$267kHuman Services$84kArts & Culture$82kEducation$56kFood & Nutrition$47kRecreation & Sports$25kHousing & Shelter$2kYouth Development$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATURE CONSERVANCY$45,000
WPLN NASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO$15,000
CROSSROADS CAMPUS$10,000
PENCIL$10,000
WNPT NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION$10,000
NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT$10,000
NASHVILLE AQUATIC CLUB$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
JEWISH MIDDLE SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE$5,000
ROOM IN THE INN$5,000
TENNGREEN LAND CONSERVANCY$3,000
SHOWER THE PEOPLE$2,000
NATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL$2,000
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION$2,000
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 (FY21–25, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $15k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $10k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $10k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $10k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $10k → 14%SHOWER THE PEOPLE: $2k → 14%SHOWER THE PEOPLE: $2k → 14%SHOWER THE PEOPLE: $2k → 14%SHOWER THE PEOPLE: $1k → 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.

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.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$572k · 17 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
2

Total granted

$572k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+11%

Still filing today

71%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther

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

  • NF
    NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +77%
  • JM
    JEWISH Middle SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +789%
  • TL
    TENNGREEN LAND CONSERVANCY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $12k · revenue +242%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FORGE NASHVILLE
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • MH
    MONROE HARDING INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +11%

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
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
3
The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation

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…

4
Nashville Public Media Inc

Nashville banner is a locally owned, community supported, civic news organization. we exist to empower the people of nashville to make informed decisions by providing non-partisan journalism from an independent, nonprofit newsroom. we are…

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce

The nashville area chamber of commerce facilitates community leadership to create economic prosperity.

7
Nashville Public Education Foundation

The nashville public education foundation supports teachers and leaders to build schools where all kids thrive. the foundation does this by advocating for change, supporting mnps as a consulting partner, promoting excellence and…

Education
8
Nashville Downtown Partnership

To make downtown nashville the compelling urban center of the southeast in which to live, work, play and invest.

Community Improvement
9
Urban Green Lab

Urban green lab's mission is to teach communities how to live sustainably by providing education, tools, and programming to nashville households, workplaces, and schools focused on environmental sustainability, food waste reduction, and…

Environment
10
Needlink Nashville

Provide needy families and individuals with rent and utilities assistance in order to prevent their eviction or termination of utility services. also provide food and other assistance to needy families and individuals.

11
Greenways for Nashville Inc

Greenways for nashville promotes, supports, and enhances a system of greenways and open space in nashville and davidson county.

Recreation & Sports
12
Oasis Center Inc

Oasis center targets undeserved youth, families, schools, and neighborhoods with a mission to help youth grow, thrive and create positive change in their lives and in our community.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pencil Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Natural Resources Defense Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 20 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATURE CONSERVANCY — $247,500 · OtherNATURE CONSERVANCYWPLN NASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO — $42,000 · OtherWPLN NASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIOIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientROOM IN THE INN INC — $22,000 · OtherROOM IN THE INN INCSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK — $12,000 · Other+1 more — $1,000 · OtherTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS — $55,000 · Human ServicesTHE CROSSRO…SHOWER THE PEOPLE — $7,000 · Human ServicesSHOWER THE …JEWISH Middle SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE — $35,000 · EducationJEWISH Midd…PENCIL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationPENCIL FOUN…MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE — $5,000 · EducationMONTGOMERY …WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA F…DAYBREAK ARTS — $2,000 · Education+1 more — $1,448 · EducationNASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $34,500 · Arts & CultureTHE FORGE NASHVILLE — $5,000 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE AQUATIC CLUB INC — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsTENNGREEN LAND CONSERVANCY — $12,000 · Recreation & SportsNASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC — $35,000 · Food & NutritionNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $7,000 · Environment
Other$349,500Human Services$62,000Education$58,448Arts & Culture$39,500Recreation & Sports$37,000Food & Nutrition$35,000Environment$7,000

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 budgetTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS — $55,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC — $35,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH Middle SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE — $35,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $34,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE AQUATIC CLUB INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTENNGREEN LAND CONSERVANCY — $12,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPENCIL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHOWER THE PEOPLE — $7,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FORGE NASHVILLE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDAYBREAK ARTS — $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CONTRIBUTOR INC — $1,448 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMONROE HARDING INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS
  • Who funds NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC
  • Who funds JEWISH Middle SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE
  • Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC
  • Who funds NASHVILLE AQUATIC CLUB INC
  • Who funds TENNGREEN LAND CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds PENCIL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds SHOWER THE PEOPLE
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE
  • Who funds THE FORGE NASHVILLE
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds DAYBREAK ARTS
  • Who funds THE CONTRIBUTOR INC
  • Who funds MONROE HARDING 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.

The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN22.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Carolyn Smith Foundation · Boulevard Bolt Inc · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation · Enchiridion 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 Shoba 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    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 20 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.

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