· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| VANDERBILT HILLEL | $1,000 |
| ROOM IN THE INN | $1,000 |
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 (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 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 +54% since the first grant, against +35% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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,…
How this is measured
65 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. 65 of the 117 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 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 ALIVE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER ↗
- 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 NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN NASHVILLE SECTION ↗
- Who funds OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The John and Heidi Hassenfeld Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John and Heidi Hassenfeld Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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