· Private foundation
The Minch 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| MONROE CARELL JR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT VANDERBILT | $8,000 |
| TENNESSEE FOUNDATION FOR QUALITY PATIENT HEALTHCARE | $5,000 |
| KERR CO TX FLOOD RELIEF | $5,000 |
| ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS | $5,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $1,000 |
| FAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER | $1,000 |
| SHALOM FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CHAMINADE JULIENNE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $250 |
| ANTIQUES AND GARDENS | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| PRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES | $250 |
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 (FY17–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% 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.
25 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC8× · 2018–2025 · $23k · revenue +119%- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC8× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +71%
- TITHE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2019–2022 · $5k · revenue +151%
Funded once
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -13%- MTMIDDLE TN TORNADO RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2021 · $2k
- TWTOWN WEST KY TORNADO RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2021 · $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.
Provide philanthropic support to firsthealth of the carolinas, inc., a healthcare system exempt from income tax under irs section 501c(3) and 170(b)(1)(a)(iii).
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Johnston health foundation seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people in our communities by supporting the patients, programs, and services of unc health johnston. the foundation seeks to be a philanthropic leader and…
Mission: this organization is part of the methodist hospital, doing business as houston methodist hospital, whose mission is: to provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a…
Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.
Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.
Sarasota memorial healthcare foundation is the philanthropic partner that helps sarasota memorial health care system bring world-class care to our community.
To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.
To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Tennessee Medical Foundation 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 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 21% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 56 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 NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE FOUNDATION FOR QUALITY PATIENT HEALTHCAR ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHALOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds PRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASA INC ↗
- Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds CERES INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds Garden of Hope and Courage Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL FOUNDATION OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION 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: Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Enchiridion Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Ebs Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · James R Meadows Jr Foundation · Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation · The Blum 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 Minch 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- Ceres 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.