· Private foundation
The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k52 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $63,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF NASHVILLE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| NASHVILLE BALLET | $20,000 |
| THE TEMPLE | $18,050 |
| NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION (NPLF) | $10,000 |
| NASHVILLE SYMPHONY | $8,000 |
| NASHVILLE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL | $7,500 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE | $5,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,550 |
| FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE | $2,500 |
| HOMEWORK HOTLINE | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $178k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +62% since the first grant, against +58% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- ACAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $144k · revenue +222%
- NBNASHVILLE BALLET7× · 2019–2025 · $127k · revenue +13%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NASHVILLE7× · 2019–2025 · $117k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $5k
- VMVANDERBILT MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2019 · $4k
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 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…
Nashvillehealth creates a culture of health and wellbeing by serving as a convener to open dialogue, aligning resources and building smart strategic partnerships to create a plan for health unique to nashvilles needs.
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 food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.
Greenways for nashville promotes, supports, and enhances a system of greenways and open space in nashville and davidson county.
To bravely imagine the power and passion of opera and who can sing and enjoy it.
Nashville conflict resolution center (ncrc) works to provide access to justice for all tennesseeans. through a restorative approach of mediation, we help people resolve legal crises quickly, safely, and effectively outside of a courtroom.
To create a safer nashville through initiatives that engage our community, businesses, and nonprofits to prevent crime, introduce innovation and best practices, and help build the best police department in the nation.
Nashville bar association is organized to improve the practice of law through education, service & fellowship
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…
To provide facilities, services, and programs of the highest quality for the greatest benefit of the people, institutions, and communities of the state, and to take a leadership role in fostering the performing arts, arts education,…
To ensure accessible early childhood education for all families in the greater nashville area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Cares and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 98 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
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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE BALLET ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds Nashville Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE ↗
- Who funds FRIST ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HOMEWORK HOTLINE INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AKIVA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP NASHVILLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AGE WELL 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: The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc · Dettwiller Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · The Jeffrey & Donna Eskind Family 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 The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Age Well Inc — 60% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
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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