How much did THE STEVEN & LAURIE ESKIND grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of THE STEVEN & LAURIE ESKIND’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 133 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k125 grants · $151k
$10k–50k8 grants · $180k

$500

Median grant

States reached

$8.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

NASHVILLE BALLET$49,075
JEWISH FEDERATION OF NASHVILLE$40,000
GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$22,790
THE TEMPLE$17,750
NASHVILLE ZOO$15,000
NJFF$13,000
PENCIL FOUNDATION$12,000
FRIST ART MUSEUM$10,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$7,500
EQUAL CHANCE FOR ED$6,750
NASHVILLE SYMPHONY$6,350
YWCA$5,250
NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION$5,225
THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL$5,100
CHEEKWOOD$5,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.1M · 158 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.

158 repeat relationships — 127 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

158

Total granted

$2.1M

$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%

+49%

Still filing today

46%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther

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

VU
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
6× · 2019–2024 · $264k · revenue +67%
NB
NASHVILLE BALLET
6× · 2019–2024 · $202k · revenue +10%
NZ
NASHVILLE ZOO
6× · 2019–2024 · $109k · revenue +23%

Funded once

EC
EQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATIONgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +54%
ST
SAINT THOMAS HEALTH FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $5k
PP
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE
one grant, 2019 · $4k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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 Academy Theatre and

Nashville children's theatre is a professional theatre company providing the children, families, and educators of middle tennessee with extraordinary shared theatrical experiences that inspire imagination, develop creativity, and build…

Arts & Culture

Stars Nashville

Supports young people through the social and emotional barriers they face. our five evidence-based school and community programs address issues like bullying prevention, substance misuse, violence and other mental health issues. in…

Health

Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education

Jewish Federation of Nashville and

To serve as the central voluntary communal organization of the jewish community

Philanthropy

Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville Inc

Arts & business council of greater nashville supports and promotes the arts by driving collaboration between arts and business that contribute to the creativity, vitality, and prosperity of greater nashville/the regions/the city.

Crime & Legal

Nashville Parks Foundation

Enhances metro nashville public parks & recreational facilities in davidson county tn

Environment

Nashville Cares

Nashville cares mission is to end the hiv/aids epidemic in middle tennessee.

Health

Persist Nashville

Increase college graduation rates of nashville, tn students.

Education

Nashville Technology Council

Leading voice & advocate for middle tn's information technology ecosystem & tech professionals.

Community Improvement

Nashville Adult Literacy Council

The nashville adult literacy council mission is to help nashville adults with the reading, writing, and english-speaking skills they need for the life they want. learners at nalc reach their goals through literacy.

Education

Nashville House Foundation

Religion

Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau

The mission of the Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau is to maximize the economic contribution of the convention & tourism industry to Nashville, TN, which is the city's second largest industry. This industry provides jobs to…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Public Radio and the most unlike its peers is The Ensworth School. 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 33 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/94

the rest of the field

11%

716/6,716

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.

04the grantee network

90 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

89/90

Grantees still filing

73/90

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,100,023Arts & Culture$409,710Health$272,783Education$129,090Animals$120,043Human Services$110,717Recreation & Sports$25,800

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.

The Frist FoundationTN107.4× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc · The Annette & Irwin Eskind · The Blum Family Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · Enchiridion Foundation · Horatio B & Willie J Buntin 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 organisation THE STEVEN & LAURIE ESKIND 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.

2024

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1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NASHVILLE SURGICAL SOCIETY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 621130297 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NASHVILLE SURGICAL SOCIETY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 13% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Steven & Laurie Eskind?

Find your warmest path to The Steven & Laurie Eskind through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE STEVEN & LAURIE ESKIND

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

90 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Steven & Laurie Eskind?

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THE STEVEN & LAURIE ESKIND

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

90 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Steven & Laurie Eskind?

More from the funding graph