Tennessee · Private foundation
The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $450k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 130
- Grants FY2025
- 131
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $600
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $138,348
- Organizations funded a year
- 127 to 143
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 128 | $409k | 3% |
| FY2024 | 131 | $290k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 134 | $436k | 1% |
| FY2022 | 143 | $334k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 129 | $284k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 136 | $325k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 127 | $298k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | $402,331 | 7 | 0% |
| Nashville Ballet | $222,895 | 7 | 1% |
| Nashville Zoo Inc | $127,043 | 7 | 0% |
| Jewish Community Center of Nashville | $117,407 | 7 | 0% |
| Frist Art Museum | $71,500 | 7 | 0% |
| University School of Nashville | $51,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Nashville Symphony Association | $48,540 | 7 | 0% |
| Belcourt Theatre Inc | $33,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Nashville Public Radio | $33,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art | $32,500 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 126 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 73 recipients with no EIN on record ($686k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Memorial Foundation Inc · The Frist Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Blum Family Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · Enchiridion Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc
How this is measured
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About The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation
- How much does The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation give?
- The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation reported 130 grants totaling $449,503 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 127 and 143 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Health (21%), Philanthropy (15%).
- Who are The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Vanderbilt University Medical Center ($402k), Nashville Ballet ($223k), Nashville Zoo Inc ($127k).
- Does The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Memorial Foundation Inc, The Frist Foundation, Hca Healthcare Foundation.
- Where is The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation based?
- The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation is based in TN.
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