· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Nashville Food Project | $60,000 |
| Ready Nest Foundation | $60,000 |
| There with Care | $50,000 |
| Buffs for Life Foundation | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Copland House | $50,000 |
| Middle TN State Univ Foundation | $50,000 |
| Backfield in Motion | $41,000 |
| Theatre Bug Inc | $40,000 |
| Voices for Children | $40,000 |
| Nurses for Newborns | $40,000 |
| The Dairy Center for the Arts | $40,000 |
| Every Mother Counts | $40,000 |
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 (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 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 +30% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +41%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $141k
- AOAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $130k · revenue +139%
- SCSATELLITE COLLECTIVE INCone grant, 2022 · $100k
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 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,…
How this is measured
82 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. 82 of the 115 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 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 The Theater Bug Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds LIGHT UP HOPE 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Boedecker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Boedecker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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