· Private foundation
The John and Heidi Hassenfeld 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: 43% of THE JOHN AND HEIDI HASSENFELD 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST END SYNAGOGUE | $32,530 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF NASHVILLE | $30,770 |
| UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE | $5,350 |
| ALIVE HOSPICE | $5,000 |
| SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,990 |
| THE TEMPLE OHABAI SHOLOM | $2,228 |
| CONGREGATION SHERITH ISRAEL | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL | $1,800 |
| NASHVILLE ZOO AT GRASSMERE | $1,500 |
| AKIVA SCHOOL | $1,440 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $1,198 |
| ABE'S GARDEN | $1,000 |
| CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| VANDERBILT HILLEL | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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 +40% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 13 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
Feeding America2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +40%- USUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE8× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +37%
- ASAKIVA SCHOOL7× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF ASOR FUNDone grant, 2023 · $11k
- MWMt Washington Pediatric Hospital Incone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +23%
- MBMOSES BROWN SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $2k
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 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.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
The gordon jewish community center welcomes all, builds community, and provides excellent programs rooted in jewish values to enrich the mind, body, and spirit.
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.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
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…
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…
The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
See Disclosure Above.
The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Pure Justice. 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 34 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 117 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds AKIVA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ABE'S GARDEN ↗
- Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH Middle SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds THE VOLUNTEER STATE HORSEMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds BOULEVARD BOLT INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN NASHVILLE SECTION ↗
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 · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Maria & Bernard a Pargh Family Foundation · Pine Haven Foundation Trust Attn Kevin Crumbo · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family 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 John and Heidi Hassenfeld 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital 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.