· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NFNASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC5× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +76%
- 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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Shoba Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shoba Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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