Tennessee · Private foundation
The Richard Siegel Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $214k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2025
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 48 to 57
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Richard Siegel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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 | 54 | $214k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 51 | $193k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $193k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 57 | $216k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 56 | $191k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 48 | $187k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rutherford County Board of Education | $71,654 | 6 | n/a |
| Special Kids Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Project Transformation Tennessee Inc | $47,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Archies Promise | $26,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Center for the Arts Inc | $24,246 | 6 | 2% |
| Rock Springs Elementary | $15,505 | 3 | 11% |
| Read to Succeed | $14,250 | 5 | 3% |
| Lascassas Elementary School Pt0 | $12,794 | 2 | 8% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Rutherford Cty | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stepping Stones Safe Haven Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rutherford County Board of Education | $71,654 | 6 | n/a |
| Special Kids Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Project Transformation Tennessee Inc | $47,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Archies Promise | $26,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Center for the Arts Inc | $24,246 | 6 | 2% |
| Rock Springs Elementary | $15,505 | 3 | 11% |
| Read to Succeed | $14,250 | 5 | 3% |
| Lascassas Elementary School Pt0 | $12,794 | 2 | 8% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Rutherford Cty | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stepping Stones Safe Haven Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Volunteer Behavioral Health Care System | $8,580 | 1 | 0% |
| Christiana Elementary PAC | $5,845 | 2 | 31% |
| Trevecca Nazarene University | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Girls on the Run of Middle Tennessee | $4,896 | 1 | 3% |
| Cedar Grove Elementary PTO | $4,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Journey Home Inc | $3,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Xavier University of Louisiana | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 115 recipients with no EIN on record ($868k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Richard Siegel Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 · 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
How this is measured
About The Richard Siegel Foundation
- How much does The Richard Siegel Foundation give?
- The Richard Siegel Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $213,830 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 57 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Richard Siegel Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (76%), Health (8%), Religion (4%).
- Who are The Richard Siegel Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Rutherford County Board of Education ($72k), Special Kids Inc ($60k), Project Transformation Tennessee Inc ($48k).
- Does The Richard Siegel Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Richard Siegel Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Richard Siegel Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Nashville Predators Foundation, Christy-Houston Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Richard Siegel Foundation based?
- The Richard Siegel Foundation is based in TN.
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