· Private foundation
Sol Stern and Rose Stern Charitable Trust
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $161k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION SHERITH ISRAEL | $49,500 |
| AKIVA SCHOOL | $32,000 |
| SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER | $12,500 |
| GILDA'S CLUB | $12,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $12,500 |
| GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $11,500 |
| JEWISH MIDDLE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| WEST END SYNAGOGUE | $7,000 |
| KEHILLA HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| NASHVILLE POLICE & PUBLIC SAFETY | $5,000 |
| NASHVILLE ZOO | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| BOOK EM | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $103k) 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 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.
15 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ASAKIVA SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $269k · revenue +97%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NASHVILLE9× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +34%
- SASEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $4k
- UMUKRAINE MISSION DEV INTLone grant, 2022 · $3k
- CFCONSERVANCY FOR CENTENNIAL PARKone grant, 2022 · $2k
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 is a non-profit, non-commercial public media service. nashville public radio's mission is to create and deliver content essential to understanding your world.
Providing non-partisan journalism from an independent, nonprofit newsroom for tn.
Arts & business council of greater nashville supports and promotes the arts by driving collaboration between arts and business that contribute to the creativity, vitality, and prosperity of greater nashville/the regions/the city.
Lead our community's efforts to house and support families experiencing homelessness.
To promote physician health, practice health, and community health for physician practices.
Nashville bar association is organized to improve the practice of law through education, service & fellowship
Deliver world-class resources and mentoring to enable every entrepreneur across the globe to realize their maximum potential.
Create experiences through performing arts; provide arts entertainment/education to tn
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
Increase well-being through recovery & career advancement while working to end homelessness.
To represent, promote and advance the interest of those in the newspaper industry
How this is measured
7 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. 7 of the 26 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.
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 · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Jeffrey & Donna Eskind Family Foundation · The John and Heidi Hassenfeld Family Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sol Stern and Rose Stern Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sol Stern and Rose Stern Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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