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The Frist Foundation at a glance

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The Frist Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$18M
Granted FY2023
171
Grants FY2023
17
States reached
$5.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

52% of The Frist Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 111 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Frist Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 104 organizations, $18M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

145
’17
96
’18
84
’19
105
’20
119
’21
122
’22
104
’23
111
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$60MPhilanthropy$37MAnimals$25MHuman Services$23MEducation$15MHousing & Shelter$11MRecreation & Sports$7.2MHealth$7.2MOther$0
02FY2023 · 171 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k48 grants · $203k
  • $10k–50k80 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k35 grants · $2.8M
  • $250k+8 grants · $14M
$15,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$196M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIST ART MUSEUM$5,895,125
THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS$1,999,672
OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE$1,500,000
FRIENDS OF MILL RIDGE PARK$1,092,844
FRIST ART MUSEUM$1,068,021
RENEWAL HOUSE INC$1,002,441
FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE$999,836
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$250,000
HANDS ON NASHVILLE$175,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$150,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA$150,000
FRIENDS OF SHELBY PARKS AND BOTTOMS$150,000
NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT$130,000
CROSSBRIDGE$125,000
CHEEKWOOD$115,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $15.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING: $430k → 4%END SLAVERY TENNESSEE: $25k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $300k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $105k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $58k → 14%RAISING RESILIENCE TENNESSEE: $25k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $25k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $25k → 14%MARY PARRISH CENTER: $150k → 14%MARY PARRISH CENTER: $130k → 14%CORNER TO CORNER: $105k → 14%MARY PARRISH CENTER: $62k → 14%PROGRESS INC: $100k → 14%THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $2.0M → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $500k → 14%THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $200k → 14%THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $100k → 14%GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $250k → 14%GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $100k → 14%COUNCIL ON AGING OF GREATER NASHVILLE: $100k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $1000k → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $370k → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $200k → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $150k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $110k → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $105k → 14%OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE: $1.5M → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $1.0M → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $1.0M → 14%THE HCA HOPE FUND: $1.0M → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $500k → 14%THE HCA HOPE FUND: $500k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE INC: $500k → 14%OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE: $250k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $250k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $200k → 14%OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE: $150k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $117k → 14%ROOFTOP FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $50k → 14%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $75k → 14%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $75k → 14%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $50k → 14%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $50k → 14%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $35k → 14%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $35k → 14%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $35k → 14%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $35k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MT
ND
MN
MI
NY
MA
WY
IA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
KS
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$162M · 209 repeat orgs$6.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

209 repeat relationships: 102 still active in FY2023, 107 since wound down; 52 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

209
153

Total granted

$162M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+24%

Still filing today

79%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FRIST ART MUSEUM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $52M · revenue +40% · 47% of their budget
  • NZ
    NASHVILLE ZOO INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $25M · revenue +23% · 28% of their budget
  • NP
    NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +238% · 38% of their budget

Funded once

  • AH
    ALIVE HOSPICE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -10%
  • NC
    NASHVILLE CARESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue +109%
  • VC
    VALOR COLLEGIATE ACADEMIESgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue +72%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Nashville Technology Council

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.

Community Improvement
2
Nashville Public Media Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Tennessee Health Care Association

To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.

—
4
Leadership Tennessee Inc

Leadership tennessee fosters collaborative, non-partisan dialogue on issues of state importance, by connecting and deploying a network of diverse leaders and engaged citizens.

Public Benefit
5
Tennessee Charitable Care Network

The mission of tccn is to support, educate, and represent non-profit organizations that provide charitable healthcare services to low-income, uninsured, and underserved tennesseans. tccn envisions a strong, compassionate healthcare safety…

Health
6
Northeast Tenn Assoc of Realtors

Our mission is to serve our members through education, professionalism, and legislative involvement

—
7
Tennessee Performing Arts Center (Tpac) Management Corporation

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,…

Arts & Culture
8
New Level Community Development Corporation

New level community development corporation advocates for low-to-moderate income community by working with legislators, other non-profits, and private developers to create more affordable homes in nashville.

Community Improvement
9
Nashville Bar Association

Nashville bar association is organized to improve the practice of law through education, service & fellowship

—
10
Civic Tn

Civictn and its partners are working individually and collectively to create a more accessible, inclusive, and representative democracy by lifting up the voices of the disenfranchised, restoring the power and accessibility of the vote, and…

Civil Rights
11
Girls Write Nashville

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Impacthealth-Tn

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rebuilding Together Nashville Inc; the most unlike its peers is Access Services of Middle Tennessee. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

331 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 331 of the 421 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
116
Early backer (in before they grew)
325/331
Grantees still filing
238/331
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIST ART MUSEUM: $52,402,879 · Arts & CultureFRIST ART MUSEUMCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $4,250,500 · Arts & CultureCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MU…+16 more: $3,331,850 · Arts & Culture+16 moreGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $24,904,957 · PhilanthropyGS DONOR ADVISED PHI…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $7,341,830 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDA…UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $3,928,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE…+7 more: $524,600 · PhilanthropyNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $25,003,500 · AnimalsNASHVILLE ZOO …+3 more: $355,682 · AnimalsYWCA OF NASHVILLEMIDDLE TN: $4,077,500 · OtherYWCA OF NASHVILLEMIDDLE…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE: $3,620,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF…PROJECT RETURN INC: $2,400,990 · OtherPROJECT RETURN INCFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $4,793,040 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE WARNER P…NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $3,593,325 · OtherNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSIO…CENTER FOR NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT INC: $2,092,000 · OtherMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC: $1,453,750 · Other+98 more: $19,537,371 · Other+98 moreTHE HCA HOPE FUND: $2,500,000 · Human ServicesTHE HCA H…THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $2,347,822 · Human ServicesTHE CROSS…Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273): $2,087,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men…OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE: $1,964,069 · Human ServicesOPERATION…FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $1,657,336 · Human ServicesFAMILY & …SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $1,241,600 · Human ServicesSENIOR CI…ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $877,500 · Human ServicesST LUKE'S…CONEXION AMERICAS: $608,000 · Human Services+17 more: $3,020,634 · Human Services+17 moreNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5,123,400 · EducationBelmont University: $4,341,193 · EducationTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL: $1,776,500 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $1,386,000 · Education+18 more: $1,947,550 · EducationFAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $1,221,000 · HealthRENEWAL HOUSE INC: $1,002,441 · HealthINTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE: $595,326 · HealthSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $572,450 · HealthCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $516,000 · HealthThe Heimerdinger Foundation Inc: $420,000 · HealthNASHVILLE CARES: $300,000 · HealthSTARS NASHVILLE: $257,475 · HealthLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $231,000 · Health+7 more: $418,500 · Health
Arts & Culture$59,985,229Philanthropy$36,699,387Animals$25,359,182Other$41,567,976Human Services$16,303,961Education$14,574,643Health$5,534,192

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIST ART MUSEUM: $52,402,879 over 8y, 47% of budgetNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $25,003,500 over 6y, 28% of budgetGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $24,904,957 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $7,341,830 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5,123,400 over 6y, 38% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $4,793,040 over 8y, 34% of budgetBelmont University: $4,341,193 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $4,250,500 over 8y, 18% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $3,928,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE: $3,620,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $3,593,325 over 5y, 14% of budgetTHE HCA HOPE FUND: $2,500,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetPROJECT RETURN INC: $2,400,990 over 5y, 22% of budgetTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $2,347,822 over 6y, 30% of budgetCENTER FOR NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT INC: $2,092,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273): $2,087,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetOPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE: $1,964,069 over 4y, 17% of budgetTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL: $1,776,500 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $1,657,336 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC: $1,453,750 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $1,386,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC: $1,270,792 over 7y, 16% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $1,241,600 over 7y, 26% of budgetFAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $1,221,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetHANDS ON NASHVILLE INC: $1,166,500 over 8y, 11% of budgetFriends of Mill Ridge Park: $1,092,844 over 1y, 73% of budgetSILOAM HEALTH: $1,071,500 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetRENEWAL HOUSE INC: $1,002,441 over 1y, 18% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $939,105 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $910,000 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $877,500 over 6y, 8.0% of budgetCENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $842,800 over 4y, 19% of budgetTENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $816,750 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetTENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION: $725,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC: $703,500 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetTENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC: $637,500 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetNEEDLINK NASHVILLE: $613,100 over 8y, 13% of budgetCONEXION AMERICAS: $608,000 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetINTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE: $595,326 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $572,450 over 7y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $533,000 over 8y, 24% of budgetCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $516,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetALIVE HOSPICE INC: $500,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC: $482,500 over 7y, 8.7% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $461,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING INC: $432,396 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND THE CUMBERLANDS: $420,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetThe Heimerdinger Foundation Inc: $420,000 over 7y, 22% of budget
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 FRIST ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO INC ↗
  • Who funds GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
  • Who funds Belmont University ↗
  • Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds THE HCA HOPE FUND ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT RETURN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
  • Who funds FAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HANDS ON NASHVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Mill Ridge Park ↗
  • Who funds SILOAM HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds RENEWAL HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
  • Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
  • Who funds ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NEEDLINK NASHVILLE ↗
  • Who funds CONEXION AMERICAS ↗

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.

Memorial Foundation I…Hca Healthcare Founda…United Way of Middle …Dorothy Cate and Thom…The Community Foundat…Joe C Davis FoundationNashville Predators F…The Healing Trust For…The Steven & Laurie E…The Dan and Margaret …Carolyn Smith Foundat…Louie M & Betty M Phi…
Memorial Foundation IncTN257.7× affinity140 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Joe C Davis Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc · Carolyn Smith Foundation · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Frist Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frist Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
84report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Frist Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Frist Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 421 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home