· Private foundation
The Goad Family 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 $10k41 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DADA2 FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| GOLD STAR MENTORS | $15,000 |
| THE LEGION FUND | $10,000 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $10,000 |
| NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION | $9,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $7,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $7,000 |
| HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE | $6,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK CHURCH | $5,000 |
| ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $4,500 |
| GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES | $4,000 |
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, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% 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 +59% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 7 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +75%- NRNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION5× · 2020–2024 · $39k · revenue +2%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $34k · revenue +392%
Funded once
- CICARDIOVASCULAR INSTITUTE OF THE SOUTHone grant, 2021 · $70k
- YYMCAone grant, 2021 · $15k
- NSNASHVILLE STEAM PRESERVATION SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +11%
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 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…
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.
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 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.
Methodist 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 a patient's ability to pay.
Tirrc is a statewide, immigrant and refugee-led collaboration. our mission is to build power, amplify our voices, and organize communities to advocate for our rights. our vision is a stronger, more inclusive tennessee where people of all…
The tennessee pharmacists association advances, protects, and promotes high-quality pharmacist-provided patient care in tennessee.
Lead our community's efforts to house, support, empower and advocate for families experiencing homelessness.
Bloodwater mission, inc. (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization registered in nashville, tennessee that operates an international nonprofit that partners with african community-driven organizations to end water and hiv/aids…
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
The nashville academy of medicine is dedicated to supporting physicians in greater nashville who provide quality medical care and are pledged to uphold high standards of conduct. we promote physician health, practice health, and community…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee and the most unlike its peers is DADA2 Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 91 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 DADA2 Foundation ↗
- Who funds Gold Star Mentors INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds PEACE POWER AND PURPOSE MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds MERCY MULTIPLIED AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds WO SMITH NASHVILLE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOMEWORK HOTLINE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds GILES COUNTY FIRE AND RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SONG INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE STEAM PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MEN OF VALOR ↗
- Who funds FAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE 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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Ebs Foundation · Dettwiller Foundation · The Frist Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Enchiridion Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Joe C Davis 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 Goad Family 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.
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
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.