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The Boedecker Foundation
Its FY2024 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $890k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Settlement Home for Children | $100,000 |
| World Spark | $80,000 |
| Ready Nest Foundation | $60,000 |
| Nashville Food Project | $60,000 |
| Copland House | $50,000 |
| Middle TN State Univ Foundation | $50,000 |
| Buffs for Life Foundation | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| There with Care | $50,000 |
| Backfield in Motion | $41,000 |
| Voices for Children | $40,000 |
| The Dairy Center for the Arts | $40,000 |
| Nurses for Newborns | $40,000 |
| Light Up Hope | $40,000 |
| Every Mother Counts | $40,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $876k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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 +32% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $418k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $868k · revenue +76%
- TDTHE DAIRY CENTER FOR THE ARTS5× · 2020–2024 · $400k · revenue +126%
- NFNASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC5× · 2020–2024 · $275k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $141k
- AOAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $130k · revenue +156%
- SCSATELLITE COLLECTIVE INCone grant, 2022 · $100k
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.
Nashville cares exists to end the hiv epidemic, promote comprehensive sexual health and end sexual health stigmatization and discrimination through prevention, education, treatment, support, advocacy, and strategic partnership.
To foster a sustainable network of community health workers and to train frontline public health professionals who possess a deep understanding of and strong ties to the local community.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
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.
To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.
To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Educate and train midwives to provide safe, professional, affordable and personal maternity and general health care.
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
Lead our community's efforts to house, support, empower and advocate for families experiencing homelessness.
People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Kempe Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Home Bound Meals Program. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
82 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. 82 of the 115 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 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds World Spark ↗
- Who funds THERE WITH CARE ↗
- Who funds THE DAIRY CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds EVERY MOTHER COUNTS ↗
- Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds BACKFIELD IN MOTION ↗
- Who funds EQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Nikki Mitchell Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds RENEWAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SMALL WORLD YOGA INC ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC ↗
- Who funds RAPHAH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AFFAIR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SETTLEMENT CLUB ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds LUBICK FOUNDATION RAMSTRENGTH ↗
- Who funds THE EQUITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Songs for Sound Inc ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds PATCHWORK ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds The Theater Bug Inc ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds LIGHT UP HOPE 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 · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Joe C Davis Foundation · The Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dettwiller Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist 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 Boedecker 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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