· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $3,000 |
| GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,550 |
| FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $2,000 |
| HOMEWORK HOTLINE | $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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +62% since the first grant, against +58% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $4k
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 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.
How this is measured
56 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. 56 of the 98 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 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 HOMEWORK HOTLINE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIST ART MUSEUM ↗
- 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 AKIVA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP NASHVILLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AGE WELL 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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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