· Private foundation
The Jeffrey & Donna Eskind Family Foundation
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of THE JEFFREY & DONNA ESKIND FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 42 grants below total $379,115 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $454,345 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $75,230 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $173k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $134k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mary Christie Institute | $80,000 |
| The Temple Congregation Ohabai Sholom | $53,535 |
| Planned Parenthood | $45,000 |
| Jewish Federation of Nashville | $40,000 |
| Gordon Jewish Community Center | $22,790 |
| Belle Meade Children's Center | $20,000 |
| Abe's Garden | $20,000 |
| Frist Center for Visual Arts | $15,000 |
| Ensworth School | $10,000 |
| Cheekwood Society | $6,200 |
| Nashville Public Library Foundation | $6,000 |
| Tulane University | $5,000 |
| Nashville Public Education Foundation | $5,000 |
| Tennessee Performing Arts Center | $5,000 |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | $3,650 |
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.
51 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
Vanderbilt University4× · 2017–2023 · $394k · revenue +74%- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NASHVILLE5× · 2017–2024 · $82k · revenue +34%
- LULYNN UNIVERSITY INC2× · 2017–2019 · $53k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- VUVanderbilt University Bill Wilkerson Ctrone grant, 2021 · $3k
- BABoys and Girls Club - RBIone grant, 2019 · $2k
- FRFAIRVIEW RECREATION ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +493%
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.
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…
Nashville bar association is organized to improve the practice of law through education, service & fellowship
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.
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…
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…
King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.
Lead public schools exists to prepare all our students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in college and in life.
Arts & business council of greater nashville supports and promotes the arts by driving collaboration between arts and business that contribute to the creativity, vitality, and prosperity of greater nashville/the regions/the city.
In fulfillment of our mission to inspire a culture of understanding and discovery of our natural world through conservation, innovation and leadership, our goal is to build a first class zoo for middle tennessee and to develop a facility…
University school of nashville models the best educational practices. in an environment that represents the cultural and ethnic composition of metropolian nashville. usn fosters each student's intellectual, artistic, and athletic…
To bravely imagine the power and passion of opera and who can sing and enjoy it.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Cares and the most unlike its peers is Mary Christie Institute Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 65 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 Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds MARY CHRISTIE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds LYNN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds ABE'S GARDEN ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BELCOURT THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE ↗
- Who funds AKIVA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ACADEMY THEATRE AND NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE CARES ↗
- Who funds CASA 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 Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Blum Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Joel C & Bernice W Gordon Family Foundation · The Danner Foundation · Enchiridion 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.