Tennessee · 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.
- $129k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 17
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Shoba Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $129k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $123k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $128k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $145k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $64k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Crossroads Campus | $55,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Nashville Food Project Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 0% |
| JEWISH Middle SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE | $35,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Nashville Public Television Inc | $34,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Nashville Aquatic Club Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Room in the Inn Inc | $22,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Tenngreen Land Conservancy | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Pencil Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Shower the People | $7,000 | 4 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Crossroads Campus | $55,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Nashville Food Project Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 0% |
| JEWISH Middle SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE | $35,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Nashville Public Television Inc | $34,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Nashville Aquatic Club Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Room in the Inn Inc | $22,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Tenngreen Land Conservancy | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Pencil Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Shower the People | $7,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Montgomery Bell Academy of the University of Nashville | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Forge Nashville | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Wikimedia Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Daybreak Arts | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Contributor Inc | $1,448 | 3 | 0% |
| Monroe Harding Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($327k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shoba Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Shoba Foundation
- How much does Shoba Foundation give?
- Shoba Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $129,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Shoba Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (45%), Human Services (14%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Shoba Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: The Crossroads Campus ($55k), Nashville Food Project Inc ($35k), JEWISH Middle SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE ($35k).
- Does Shoba Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shoba Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Shoba Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Memorial Foundation Inc, Hca Healthcare Foundation.
- Where is Shoba Foundation based?
- Shoba Foundation is based in TN.
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