· Private foundation
The Julia Carell Stadler 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 $10k5 grants · $16k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| DIOCESE OF NASHVILLE | $5,000 |
| ST CECILIA CONGREGATION | $5,000 |
| ALIVE HOSPICE | $2,500 |
| NASHVILLE ZOO AT GRASSMERE | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF WARNER PARKS | $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 (FY25–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Vanderbilt University7× · 2019–2025 · $656k · revenue +57%- NZNASHVILLE ZOO INC9× · 2017–2025 · $518k · revenue +23%
- CBCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART8× · 2017–2024 · $98k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $5k
- SISB INITIATIVE INCone grant, 2024 · $4k
- TETHE ENSWORTH SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +101%
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.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
To bravely imagine the power and passion of opera and who can sing and enjoy it.
The mission of the jenkins arboretum & gardens is to preserve natural, tranquil woodlands for community enjoyment, to showcase native plants and a world class collection of rhododendrons and azaleas, and to promote environmental…
To sustain the vibrancy of nashville's centennial park, home to the historic parthenon, by supporting metro parks in revitalizing & activating this public green space to ensure the park remains a welcoming destination for recreation,…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
Girls write nashville empowers expression through songwriting, production, mentorship and creative community for teen artists. we are an artist and educator-led 501(c)(3) creative youth development program in nashville, tn allied with…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
Greenways for nashville promotes, supports, and enhances a system of greenways and open space in nashville and davidson county.
The mission of the belcourt theatre is to engage, enrich and educate our community through innovative film programming in our historic theatre.
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…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 25 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 Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE BALLET ↗
- Who funds NEW DIALECT ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds Nashville Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds NURTURE THE NEXT FKA PREVENT CHILD ABUSE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds SB INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSON COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRAD KAMINSKY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
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 · The Frist Foundation · The Rich Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Julia Carell Stadler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Julia Carell Stadler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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