· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ROOM IN THE INN | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THE OUTREACH FOUNDATION | $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 |
| ST CECILIA ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| ENSWORTH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| DOMINICAN SISTERS OF ST CECILIA | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $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 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 +43% since the first grant, against +34% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CBCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART5× · 2019–2025 · $46k · revenue +152%
- 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
- DODIOCESE OF NASHVILLEone grant, 2023 · $10k
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTSone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To prepare a diverse student population for success in college and to live inspired and purposeful lives. our scholars will graduate with academic skills, social-emotional skills, and positive character strengths that rival the outcomes of…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
How this is measured
48 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. 48 of the 80 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 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RALLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hope for Justice Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASHER HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hunt Family Foundation of Nashville funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hunt Family Foundation of Nashville. Bigger dots raise more.
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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