· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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.
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- NFNASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC5× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +77%
- JMJEWISH Middle SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE5× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +789%
- TLTENNGREEN LAND CONSERVANCY4× · 2022–2025 · $12k · revenue +242%
Funded once
- TFTHE FORGE NASHVILLEone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- MHMONROE HARDING INCone 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.
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.
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.
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 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…
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…
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 area chamber of commerce facilitates community leadership to create economic prosperity.
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…
To make downtown nashville the compelling urban center of the southeast in which to live, work, play and invest.
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…
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.
Greenways for nashville promotes, supports, and enhances a system of greenways and open space in nashville and davidson county.
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.
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 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.
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.
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.