· Private foundation
The Richard Siegel 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k49 grants · $164k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPECIAL KIDS | $10,000 |
| PROJECT TRANSFORMATION TENNESSEE | $10,000 |
| RIVERDALE HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ARCHIE'S PROMISE | $10,000 |
| BLACKMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BLACKMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $9,988 |
| LASCASSAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $9,450 |
| VOLUNTEER BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM | $8,580 |
| LAVERGNE HIGH SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| RUTHERFORD COUNTY SCHOOLS | $7,146 |
| ROCKVALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $5,548 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,210 |
| RUTHERFORD COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| SIMON SPRINGS COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| WALTER HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $4,980 |
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 (FY21–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +1% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
83 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 18 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
- CFCENTER FOR THE ARTS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +106%
- RSROCK SPRINGS ELEMENTARY3× · 2021–2023 · $16k · revenue ×64
- RTREAD TO SUCCEED5× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- SSStepping Stones Safe Haven Incone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -36%
- LLLAVERGNE LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $10k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RUTHERFORD CTYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +34%
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.
To enhance the learning experience for every child through academic, social, and enrichment programs
Engaging families & communities to advocate for children.
Christian education
Provide educational assistance for local public school
Education preschool-12th grade, religious, general
To educate students with the transforming truth of christ, inspiring academic excellence, godly character, and integrity in life pursuits.
Support education - tuckahoe public schools
Parent-teacher organization supporting pearre creek elementary school williamson county, tennessee.
Benefit local school
The pto provides support to the students at john trotwood middle school (a davidson county, tn public school) and the greater school community. the pto provides funds for teachers, curriculum, school grounds and building,student…
We are a Parent Teacher Association for Rosebank Elementary We do not have any employees only volunteers We pay dues to the state PTA association We fundraise to pay for events at our school
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Read to Succeed and the most unlike its peers is Christiana Elementary Pac. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 132 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.
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 · Nashville Predators Foundation · Christy-Houston Foundation Inc · John D Floyd Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of South Central Tennessee · Charity Circle of Murfreesboro · Jennings & Rebecca Jones Foundation Inc · Adams Family Foundation II · Adams Family Foundation I · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Minneapolis 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 Richard Siegel 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.