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The Ann and Monroe Carell 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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$3.6MArts & Culture$3.2MHealth$3.0MReligion$1.6MPhilanthropy$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$1,000,000
DIOCESE OF NASHVILLE - LEGACY CAMPAIGN$400,000
SB INITIATIVE INC$50,000
NASHVILLE SYMPHONY$50,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $1.0M → 14%VANDERBILT MEDICAL CENTER - LIFEFLIGHT: $1.0M → 14%VANDERBILT MEDICAL CENTER - LIFEFLIGHT: $1.0M → 14%ENSWORTH SCHOOL: $400k → 14%VANDERBILT CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $4k → 14%ENSWORTH SCHOOL: $200k → 14%DIOCESE OF NASHVILLE - LEGACY CAMPAIGN: $400k → 14%DIOCESE OF NASHVILLE: $400k → 14%DIOCESE OF NASHVILLE: $400k → 14%DIOCESE OF NASHVILLE: $400k → 14%BELMONT UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN & MUSEUM OF ART: $2.0M → 14%CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN & MUSEUM OF ART: $800k → 14%CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN & MUSEUM OF ART: $250k → 14%SB INITIATIVE INC: $50k → 14%SWAN BALL: $25k → 14%SWAN BALL: $25k → 14%SWAN BALL: $25k → 14%HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NASHVILLE: $5k → 14%HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NASHVILLE: $3k → 14%NASHVILLE SYMPHONY: $50k → 14%NASHVILLE SYMPHONY: $50k → 14%NASHVILLE SYMPHONY: $50k → 14%NASHVILLE SYMPHONY: $50k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$10M · 8 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$10M
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+11%

Still filing today

63%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthOther

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

  • CB
    CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART
    3× · 2020–2023 · $3.0M · revenue +29%
  • Vanderbilt University
    3× · 2020–2022 · $3.0M · revenue +65%
  • TE
    THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL
    2× · 2020–2021 · $600k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • VC
    VANDERBILT CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2024 · $4k
  • BU
    Belmont University
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +11%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
2
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
3
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
4
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
5
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
6
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
7
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
8
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
9
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

10
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
11
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vanderbilt University and the most unlike its peers is Hospital Hospitality House Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VANDERBILT MEDICAL CENTER - LIFEFLIGHT — $2,000,000 · OtherVANDERBILT MEDICAL CENTER - LIFEFLIG…DIOCESE OF NASHVILLE — $1,200,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF NASHVILLEDIOCESE OF NASHVILLE - LEGACY CAMPAIGN — $400,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF NASHVILLE - LEGACY CAMPAI…+2 more — $78,800 · OtherVanderbilt University — $3,000,000 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL — $600,000 · EducationTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL+1 more — $2,500 · EducationCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART — $3,039,535 · Arts & CultureCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND M…Nashville Symphony Association — $200,000 · Arts & CultureNashville Symphony Association+1 more — $50,000 · Arts & CultureVanderbilt University Medical Center — $1,000,000 · HealthVanderbil…+1 more — $7,500 · Health
Other$3,678,800Education$3,602,500Arts & Culture$3,289,535Health$1,007,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART — $3,039,535 over 3y, 11% of budgetVanderbilt University — $3,000,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL — $600,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNashville Symphony Association — $200,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE CORPORATION — $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBelmont University — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Ann and Monroe Carell 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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