· Private foundation
The Ortale Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROJECT REDESIGN | $10,000 |
| SEWANEE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF WARNER PARKS | $5,000 |
| HOMELESS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MUCS CANCER CENTER | $2,500 |
| CAF AMERICA - CAMERON BESPOLKA TRUS | $2,500 |
| FRIST CENTER FOR VISUAL ARTS | $2,500 |
| TN INNOCENCE PROJECT | $2,500 |
| NASHVILLE CATHOLIC YOUTH WRESTLING | $2,000 |
| RALLY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| WAYNE WISE WELLNESS FUND | $1,000 |
| MARDY FISH CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| GOLF CLUB OF TN SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $1,000 |
| THE WINDSOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CITY OF BELLE MEADE | $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 (FY21–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +146% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 7 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH5× · 2018–2023 · $45k · revenue +49%
- TITENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT4× · 2019–2023 · $36k · revenue +337%
- PRPROJECT REDESIGN INC4× · 2021–2024 · $28k · revenue +186%
Funded once
- SUSEWANEE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $30k
- AUAUBURN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $10k
- FRFATHER RYAN HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Our mission is to preserve the integrity of college golf, recognizing that our student-athletes not only excel in the sport but also become significant contributors to society. by hosting exceptional ncaa di golf championships, we honor…
See Disclosure Above.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The study of clinical cases and experimental models of cancer for new ways of cancer prevention, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. the study of environmental causes of cancer, particularly food and drinking water chemcials. the training…
To provide opportunity to young people and develop leaders for industry, philanthropy, education and the community through the intercollegiate athletic experience.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Windsor Charitable Foundation. 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 21 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 51 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 UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PROJECT REDESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE M WISE WELLNESS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR-SCHOLAR PROJECT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MARDY FISH CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RALLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Golf Club of Tennessee Scholarship Fund ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE CATHOLIC YOUTH WRESTLING ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC ↗
- Who funds Dancing with the Stars of Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds WINDSOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY FOUNDATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DOGWOOD FARM SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Ortale Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.