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The Samuel M Fleming Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $409k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL | $85,000 |
| KIPP ACADEMY | $70,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| GILDA'S CLUB NASHVILLE | $48,000 |
| CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC | $48,000 |
| TPAC | $44,000 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $38,000 |
| NASHVILLE OPERA | $35,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $32,500 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ENSWORTH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| BATTLE OF FRANKLIN TRUST | $13,500 |
| MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY | $12,000 |
| NASHVILLE BALLET | $12,000 |
| NASHVILLE SYMPHONY | $12,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
46 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k 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
- MPMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC7× · 2018–2024 · $575k · revenue +32%
- TETHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL7× · 2018–2024 · $290k · revenue +101%
- NONASHVILLE OPERA ASSOCIATION7× · 2018–2024 · $245k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- UWUS WOMEN'S AMATEUR CHAMP CHARITABLE FDNone grant, 2018 · $13k
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL KYone grant, 2020 · $5k
- TPTPACHOT PROGRAMone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
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.
Fayetteville academy is an independent, college preparatory school (prek- 12) that encourages students to achieve their full potential by offering exceptional opportunities in academics, fine arts, and athletics. the academy emphasizes…
King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.
Tower hill school prepares students from diverse backgrounds for full and creative engagement with a dynamic world. each student is provided with an educational experience that emphasizes the development of an inquisitive, discerning and…
The nashville chamber public benefit foundation supports the work of the nashville area chamber of commerce through efforts to improve the quality of education, encourage public and private efforts around education, and to facilitate the…
Our mission: the winsor school prepares young women to pursue their aspirations and contribute to the world.
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Field school is a boy's middle school founded in 2007 by todd barnett with the support of many parents, friends, and community leaders. its mission is to develop well-rounded boys of character and accomplishment. its motto is "omnis puer…
The nashville area chamber of commerce facilitates community leadership to create economic prosperity.
To prepare a diverse student population for success in college and to live inspired and purposeful lives. our scholars will graduate with academic skills, social-emotional skills, and positive character strengths that rival the outcomes of…
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
Christ-centered school educating children of diverse racial & socioeconomic backgrounds by establishing a biblical worldview & preparing each child to flourish academically, emotionally, socially & spiritually.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Academy Theatre and Nashville Children's Theatre Assoc 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.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 59 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 MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE PLANTATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BATTLE GROUND ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Nashville Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE BALLET ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE TELOMERE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JORDAN THOMAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIST ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TIME TO RISE INC ↗
- Who funds BACKFIELD IN MOTION ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON NASHVILLE INC ↗
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 · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · The Hunt Family Foundation of Nashville · Marlene and Spencer Hays Foundation · The Rich Foundation · Henry Laird Smith Foundation · Enchiridion 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 Samuel M Fleming 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.
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