· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROJECT REDESIGN | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF WARNER PARKS | $5,000 |
| SEWANEE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $5,000 |
| HOMELESS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FRIST CENTER FOR VISUAL ARTS | $2,500 |
| CAF AMERICA - CAMERON BESPOLKA TRUS | $2,500 |
| MUCS CANCER CENTER | $2,500 |
| TN INNOCENCE PROJECT | $2,500 |
| NASHVILLE CATHOLIC YOUTH WRESTLING | $2,000 |
| MARDY FISH CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| WAYNE WISE WELLNESS FUND | $1,000 |
| GOLF CLUB OF TN SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $1,000 |
| RALLY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THE WINDSOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CITY OF BELLE MEADE | $250 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +146% since the first grant, against +55% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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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.
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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…
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To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 51 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ortale Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ortale Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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