· Private foundation
The Hunt Family Foundation of Nashville
Its FY2025 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NASHVILLE ZOO & WILDLIFE PARK | $56,100 |
| CORNER TO CORNER | $10,000 |
| CHEEKWOOD | $10,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THE OUTREACH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ROOM IN THE INN | $5,000 |
| CATHEDRAL OF THE INCARNATION | $4,500 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $4,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $3,000 |
| BATTLE GROUND ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| ENSWORTH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| ST CECILIA ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| DOMINICAN SISTERS OF ST CECILIA | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +47% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- CBCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART5× · 2019–2025 · $46k · revenue +79%
- SHSILOAM HEALTH7× · 2019–2025 · $37k · revenue +47%
- BGBATTLE GROUND ACADEMY7× · 2019–2025 · $19k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NASHVILLEone grant, 2019 · $20k
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTSone grant, 2024 · $10k
- DODIOCESE OF NASHVILLEone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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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.
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Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 80 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 CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SILOAM HEALTH ↗
- Who funds BATTLE GROUND ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH FOUNDATION OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INC ↗
- Who funds Corner To Corner ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIST ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RALLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds Hope for Justice Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ASHER HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON NASHVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
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 · The Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Nashville Predators Foundation · Servant Foundation · Tennessee Titans Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Devine-Majors Foundation · Louise B Wallace Foundation 19702
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 Hunt Family Foundation of Nashville 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
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.
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