Tennessee · 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.
- $40k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $473k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The Minch Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $40k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $35k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $20k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $24k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $41k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $31k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $20k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $18k | 72% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc | $22,950 | 8 | 0% |
| Faith Family Medical Center Inc | $20,125 | 8 | 0% |
| Elk River Helping Hands | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Tennessee Foundation for Quality Patient Healthcar | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tn Inc | $9,733 | 8 | 0% |
| The Shalom Foundation | $8,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Immokalee Foundation Inc | $5,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity | $3,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Preston Taylor Ministries | $1,900 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($133k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Minch Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About The Minch Foundation
- How much does The Minch Foundation give?
- The Minch Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $39,580 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Minch Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (34%), Education (31%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
- Who are The Minch Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc ($23k), Faith Family Medical Center Inc ($20k), Elk River Helping Hands ($10k).
- Does The Minch Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Minch Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Minch Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hca Healthcare Foundation, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Memorial Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Minch Foundation based?
- The Minch Foundation is based in TN.
Play a game based on Minch’s filings →