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The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation

THE NASHVILLE CHAMBER PUBLIC BENEFIT FOUNDATION supports the work of the nashville area chamber of commerce through efforts to improve the quality of education, encourage public and private efforts around education, and to facilitate the efforts to combat community deterioration.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$692,076
Largest grant, FY2025
$981,607
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$3.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$2.0M25%
FY20243$1.1M0%
FY20234$1.2M0%
FY20224$1.4M50%
FY20212$396k50%
FY20201$442k0%
FY20191$20k0%
FY20182$221k50%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$4.1MEmployment$2.6MCommunity Improvement$175k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce$4,339,66478%
Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools$1,572,0754n/a
Nashville State Community Col$419,2014n/a
Tennessee College Access and Success Network$273,696314%
Pencil Foundation$167,86033%
Tennessee College of Applied Technology$85,9151n/a

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Vanderbilt UniversityTN13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation

How much does The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation give?
The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $1,961,961 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (59%), Employment (38%), Community Improvement (3%).
Who are The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce ($4.3M), Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools ($1.6M), Nashville State Community Col ($419k).
Does The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanderbilt University.
Where is The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation based?
The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation is based in TN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 6 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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