Tennessee · Private foundation
The Danner Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $503k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $55,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 50
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The Danner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 35 | $503k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $445k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $416k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 50 | $482k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $289k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $399k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harpeth Conservancy | $126,250 | 4 | 3% |
| Hub Youth Cycling | $115,000 | 3 | 50% |
| Family & Children's Service | $100,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University School of Nashville | $92,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Nashville Symphony Association | $72,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Greenways for Nashville Inc | $71,900 | 6 | 4% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee | $55,000 | 1 | 2% |
| YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee | $55,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Tennessee Performing Arts Center (Tpac) Management Corporation | $52,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 70 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($829k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Danner Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 65 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Dettwiller Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation · The Joel C & Bernice W Gordon Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Danner Foundation
- How much does The Danner Foundation give?
- The Danner Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $502,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 50 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Danner Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (15%), Philanthropy (14%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are The Danner Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Harpeth Conservancy ($126k), Hub Youth Cycling ($115k), Family & Children's Service ($100k).
- Does The Danner Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Danner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Danner Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hca Healthcare Foundation, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, The Frist Foundation.
- Where is The Danner Foundation based?
- The Danner Foundation is based in TN.
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