· Private foundation
The Oakpoint Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Belmont Church | $5,000 |
| Freedom's Promise | $2,500 |
| Nashville Public Library Foundation | $2,500 |
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 (FY23–23, $618) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +231% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NPNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +231%
- MLMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +21%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC2× · 2021–2023 · $10k · revenue +481%
Funded once
Vanderbilt Universityone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -15%- ALApartment Life Incone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +4%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKYone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
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.
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.
Greenways for nashville promotes, supports, and enhances a system of greenways and open space in nashville and davidson county.
The nashville tree foundation works to preserve and enhance nashville's urban forests by planting trees in urban areas, identifying the oldest and largest trees in davidson county, and educating the public about the value of trees. all…
Leadership nashville identifies and invites a diverse cross-section of professional, civic and charitable leaders to participate in an intensive program designed to give them a multi-dimensional understanding of the community.
To make downtown nashville the compelling urban center of the southeast in which to live, work, play and invest.
To create a safer nashville through initiatives that engage our community, businesses, and nonprofits to prevent crime, introduce innovation and best practices, and help build the best police department in the nation.
A faithful presence afp is an organization that provides holistic spiritual care, community building, and trauma-informed advocacy for our formerly homeless neighbors while training other communities to do the same.
To empower adults with developmental disabilities by providing affordable housing, work that is meaningful and an inclusive community in which to live.
The jewish federation of nashville is the central voluntary communal organization of the jewish community. through its fund-raising, planning and community relations efforts, either independently or in partnership with other jewish…
Nashville banner is a locally owned, community supported, civic news organization. we exist to empower the people of nashville to make informed decisions by providing non-partisan journalism from an independent, nonprofit newsroom. we are…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 14 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 NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM'S PROMISE ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds Apartment Life Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE LOVING NASHVILLE ↗
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: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Oakpoint Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Oakpoint Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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