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The Rich Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$150k
Granted FY2025still arriving
53
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$343kRecreation & Sports$323kReligion$195kArts & Culture$191kHealth$108kHuman Services$81kInternational$61kEnvironment$42kOther$0
02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k49 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$1,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY GRIDIRON CLUB$50,000
ENSWORTH SCHOOL$11,000
ANDREW JACKSON'S HERMITAGE$10,000
FRIENDS OF WARNER PARK$10,000
CHEEKWOOD$9,000
WESTMINSTER CHURCH$8,000
MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY$4,200
HARPETH HALL SCHOOL$3,500
WOODMONT CHRISTIAN CHURCH$3,200
CHILDREN'S FUND$3,000
ST ANN CATHOLIC CHURCH$3,000
HARDING ACADEMCY$3,000
CENTRAL LUTHERAN CHURCH$2,500
ABE'S GARDEN$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PROJECT REDESIGN: $4k → 14%PROJECT REDESIGN: $4k → 14%PROJECT REDESIGN: $3k → 14%PROJECT REDESIGN: $3k → 14%PROJECT REDESIGN: $3k → 14%PROJECT REDESIGN: $3k → 14%PROJECT REDESIGN: $3k → 14%PROJECT REDESIGN: $2k → 14%PROJECT REDESIGN: $1k → 14%FRIENDS LIFE COMMUNITY: $1k → 14%CROSSROAD CAMPUS: $500 → 14%CROSSROAD CAMPUS: $500 → 14%CROSSROAD CAMPUS: $300 → 14%CROSSROAD CAMPUS: $250 → 14%CROSSROAD CAMPUS: $250 → 14%CROSSROAD CAMPUS: $250 → 14%CROSSROAD CAMPUS: $250 → 14%CROSSROAD CAMPUS: $200 → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES: $3k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES: $1k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
IN
PA
CA
KY
VA
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 88 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

88
21

Total granted

$1.4M
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+21%

Still filing today

53%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TE
    THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $119k · revenue +47%
  • CB
    CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART
    9× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +52%
  • TR
    TEAM RUBICON INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $61k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • TG
    TN GOLF FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • MC
    MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +28%
  • JW
    JOURNEYMEN WRESTLING CLUB LTDgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +385%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Nashville Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Furman University

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.

Education
4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
7
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
8
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
9
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
12
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 118 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/64
Grantees still filing
44/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY GRIDIRON CLUB: $203,100 · OtherVANDERBILT UNIVERSITY GRIDIRON CLUBWOODMONT CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $97,200 · OtherWOODMONT CHRISTIAN CHURCHWESTMINSTER CHURCH: $89,500 · OtherWESTMINSTER CHURCHFRIENDS OF WARNER PARK: $49,350 · OtherFRIENDS OF WARNER PARK+72 more: $379,950 · Other+72 moreTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL: $118,750 · EducationTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOLTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL: $60,000 · EducationTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOLMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE: $45,450 · EducationMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY…HARDING ACADEMY: $41,000 · EducationHARDING ACADEMY+10 more: $42,100 · Education+10 moreCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $69,333 · Arts & CultureCHEEKWOOD B…NASHVILLE BALLET: $20,250 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE B…NEW DIALECT: $17,050 · Arts & CultureNEW DIALECTFRIST ART MUSEUM: $13,500 · Arts & CultureFRIST ART M…ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureANDREW JACK…NASHVILLE OPERA ASSOCIATION: $9,850 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE O…NASHVILLE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $8,500 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE H…+2 more: $3,250 · Arts & CultureTEAM RUBICON INC: $61,034 · Public Safety & DisasterRALLY FOUNDATION INC: $12,850 · PhilanthropyMARTHA O'BRYAN FOUNDATION INC: $8,634 · PhilanthropyTHISBE AND NOAH SCOTT FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · PhilanthropyTreasure Cay Community Foundation Inc: $7,150 · PhilanthropyNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,000 · PhilanthropyANCHOR IMPACT FUND INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyFAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $20,100 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $7,700 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $6,383 · HealthTJ MARTELL FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthSADDLE UP: $2,000 · Health+2 more: $1,750 · HealthPROJECT REDESIGN INC: $24,000 · Human ServicesSALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesANCORATN FKA END SLAVERY TENNESSEE INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $2,500 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$819,100Education$307,300Arts & Culture$151,733Public Safety & Disaster$61,034Philanthropy$42,634Health$40,433Human Services$35,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL: $118,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $69,333 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $61,034 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL: $60,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE: $45,450 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHARDING ACADEMY: $41,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT REDESIGN INC: $24,000 over 9y, 6.0% of budgetNASHVILLE BALLET: $20,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $20,100 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS: $17,750 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetNEW DIALECT: $17,050 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetCUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC: $15,750 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFRIST ART MUSEUM: $13,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRALLY FOUNDATION INC: $12,850 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetABE'S GARDEN: $12,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNASHVILLE OPERA ASSOCIATION: $9,850 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA O'BRYAN FOUNDATION INC: $8,634 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetNASHVILLE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $7,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHISBE AND NOAH SCOTT FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 9y, 7.1% of budgetHERITAGE PLANTATION FOUNDATION: $7,250 over 4y, 11% of budgetTreasure Cay Community Foundation Inc: $7,150 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetSMALL WORLD YOGA INC: $7,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S FUND INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $6,383 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKAPPA ALPHA THETA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetREED INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTSTONE INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kinkaid School Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANCORATN FKA END SLAVERY TENNESSEE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $2,850 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHLANDS PLATEAU GREENWAY INC: $2,550 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetANCHOR IMPACT FUND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $2,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCADDIE & LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF SE WI INC: $2,250 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSADDLE UP: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…The Frist FoundationHca Healthcare Founda…Memorial Foundation I…Dorothy Cate and Thom…The Steven & Laurie E…Nashville Predators F…Ebs FoundationLouie M & Betty M Phi…Msb Cockayne Fund IncMilton and Denice Joh…Martha W Banker Chari…
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN48.5× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Rich Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rich Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Reed Institute: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 118 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home