Tennessee · Private foundation
The Rich Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $150k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2025
- 63
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 56 to 64
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations The Rich Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 52 | $150k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 63 | $185k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 60 | $185k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 64 | $165k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 56 | $154k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 57 | $161k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 58 | $149k | 3% |
| FY2018 | 61 | $149k | 8% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Ensworth School | $118,750 | 9 | 0% |
| Woodmont Christian Church | $97,200 | 9 | n/a |
| Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art | $69,333 | 9 | 0% |
| Team Rubicon Inc | $61,034 | 8 | 0% |
| The Harpeth Hall School | $60,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Montgomery Bell Academy of the University of Nashville | $45,450 | 9 | 0% |
| Harding Academy | $41,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Project Redesign Inc | $24,000 | 9 | 6% |
| Nashville Ballet | $20,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Faith Family Medical Center Inc | $20,100 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 67 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($609k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Rich Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 · 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
How this is measured
About The Rich Foundation
- How much does The Rich Foundation give?
- The Rich Foundation reported 53 grants totaling $150,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 56 and 64 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Rich Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Recreation & Sports (22%), Religion (13%).
- Who are The Rich Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Ensworth School ($119k), Woodmont Christian Church ($97k), Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art ($69k).
- Does The Rich Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Rich Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Rich Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, The Frist Foundation, Hca Healthcare Foundation.
- Where is The Rich Foundation based?
- The Rich Foundation is based in TN.
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