· Private foundation
Tennessee Titans Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k108 grants · $272k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $346k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METRO NASHVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $1,501,500 |
| TSSAA | $40,000 |
| METROPOLITAN NASHVILLE BOARD OF PARKS AND RECREATION | $35,000 |
| FISK UNIV SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $15,516 |
| SAINT THOMAS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $15,516 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $15,516 |
| TENNESSEE ALLIANCE OF BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC | $15,516 |
| CAMP DISCOVERY | $15,516 |
| THE JASON FOUNDATION INC | $15,516 |
| VANDERBILT CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $15,516 |
| TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $15,516 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| MIDDLE TENNESSEE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $15,000 |
| 2ND AND 7 FOUNDATION | $14,696 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $10,861 |
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 (FY20–25, $153k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +36% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
77 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 72 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $261k 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
- STSAINT THOMAS HEALTH FOUNDATIONS6× · 2020–2025 · $66k · revenue +80%
- TSTENNESSEE SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC3× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +588%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- PDPROJECT DESTINED INCone grant, 2024 · $125k · revenue 0%
- UWUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -6%
- TSTennessee Secondary School Athletic Associationone grant, 2022 · $80k · 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.
King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.
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…
The nashville area chamber of commerce facilitates community leadership to create economic prosperity.
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
Lead public schools exists to prepare all our students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in college and in life.
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…
Intrepid college prep is committed to ensuring our scholars, educators, and families have the opportunity to unlock an unlimited future. by providing rigorous academic instruction and creating powerful relationships amongst our community's…
To advance state policies and practices that ensure all tennessee children from birth through 3rd grade get the high quality early education they need to power our state's future.
Our mission is to increase socioeconomic mobility by building pathways to thriving careers.
To train, connect, and support athletic coaches in their work to build excellent programs that transform the lives of their players and enable them to perform to their greatest physical potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equally Created and the most unlike its peers is Coyote Quarterback Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
113 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. 113 of the 330 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT DESTINED INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT THOMAS HEALTH FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE JASON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE BALLET ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds 100 BLACK MEN OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS ↗
- Who funds KABOOM 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: Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Nashville Predators Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · Vanderbilt University · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc · Dettwiller Foundation · Ryman Hospitality Properties 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 Tennessee Titans 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.
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