· Private foundation
The Rich Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k49 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY GRIDIRON CLUB | $50,000 |
| ENSWORTH SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| FRIENDS OF WARNER PARK | $10,000 |
| ANDREW JACKSON'S HERMITAGE | $10,000 |
| CHEEKWOOD | $9,000 |
| WESTMINSTER CHURCH | $8,000 |
| MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY | $4,200 |
| HARPETH HALL SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| WOODMONT CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $3,200 |
| HARDING ACADEMCY | $3,000 |
| ST ANN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $3,000 |
| CHILDREN'S FUND | $3,000 |
| ABE'S GARDEN | $2,500 |
| CENTRAL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $32k) 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 +33% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
88 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- TETHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $119k · revenue +47%
- CBCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART9× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +8%
- TRTEAM RUBICON INC8× · 2017–2024 · $61k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- TGTN GOLF FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k
- MCMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +28%
- JWJOURNEYMEN WRESTLING CLUB LTDgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +385%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Heritage Plantation 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 34 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 118 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 THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds HARDING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT REDESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE BALLET ↗
- Who funds FAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS ↗
- Who funds NEW DIALECT ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds FRIST ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds RALLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ABE'S GARDEN ↗
- Who funds ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA O'BRYAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds THISBE AND NOAH SCOTT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE PLANTATION FOUNDATION ↗
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 · The Frist Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Ebs Foundation · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc · Milton and Denice Johnson Family Foundation · Martha W Banker Charitable Trust
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 Rich 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.
- Reed Institute — 1% of income from government
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.