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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 FY2025still arriving
130
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$138k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$607kHealth$543kPhilanthropy$399kEducation$230kHuman Services$225kAnimals$185kReligion$177kYouth Development$37kOther$0
02FY2025 · 130 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k122 grants · $154k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $157k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $138k
$600
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$138,348
JEWISH FEDERATION OF NASHVILLE$40,000
NJFF$28,000
GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$22,790
NASHVILLE BALLET$21,000
NASHVILLE ZOO$18,000
THE TEMPLE$17,650
FRIST ART MUSEUM$10,000
NASHVILLE SYMPHONY$7,000
NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$6,500
EQUAL CHANCE FOR ED$6,250
NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE$6,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF TN AND N MS$6,000
NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION$5,325
YWCA$5,170
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHARITY WATER: $500 → 17%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $1k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $1k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $1k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $1k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $1k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $500 → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $500 → 14%CONEXION AMERICA: $1k → 14%CONEXION AMERICA: $1k → 14%CONEXION AMERICA: $1k → 14%CONEXION AMERICA: $1k → 14%CONEXION AMERICA: $1k → 14%CONEXION AMERICA: $500 → 14%GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $23k → 14%GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $23k → 14%GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $23k → 14%GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $23k → 14%GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $22k → 14%GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 14%GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 14%AGEWELL MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $500 → 14%AGEWELL MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $500 → 14%AGEWELL MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $500 → 14%AGEWELL MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $500 → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $4k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $3k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $3k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $3k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $3k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $3k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $1k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $1k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $1k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $1k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $1k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $1k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $1k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $1k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $1k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $1k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $500 → 14%ROOFTOP NAHVILLE: $500 → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $500 → 14%ROOFTOP NASHVILLE: $500 → 14%ROOFTOP NASHVILLE: $500 → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $500 → 14%ROOFTOP NAHVILLE: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
NY
MA
CT
CA
VA
TN
NC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 159 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

159 repeat relationships: 124 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

159
36

Total granted

$2.3M
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+30%

Still filing today

63%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    7× · 2019–2025 · $402k · revenue +91%
  • NB
    NASHVILLE BALLET
    7× · 2019–2025 · $223k · revenue +13%
  • NZ
    NASHVILLE ZOO INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $127k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • EC
    EQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +26%
  • ST
    SAINT THOMAS HEALTH FOUNDATIONSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +80%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Nashville Cares

Nashville cares exists to end the hiv epidemic, promote comprehensive sexual health and end sexual health stigmatization and discrimination through prevention, education, treatment, support, advocacy, and strategic partnership.

Health
2
Nashville Technology Council

Ntc mission is to advance the diverse technology ecosystem by connecting and promoting members, attracting, growing and retaining tech talent, and providing opportunities to reinvest in the greater nashville community.

Community Improvement
3
Nashville Public Media Inc

Nashville banner is a locally owned, community supported, civic news organization. we exist to empower the people of nashville to make informed decisions by providing non-partisan journalism from an independent, nonprofit newsroom. we are…

Arts & Culture
4
Nashvillehealth

Nashvillehealth creates a culture of health and wellbeing by serving as a convener to open dialogue, aligning resources and building smart strategic partnerships to create a plan for health unique to nashvilles needs.

Health
5
Nashville Conflict Resolution Ctr

Nashville conflict resolution center (ncrc) works to provide access to justice for all tennesseeans. through a restorative approach of mediation, we help people resolve legal crises quickly, safely, and effectively outside of a courtroom.

Crime & Legal
6
Nashville Bar Association

Nashville bar association is organized to improve the practice of law through education, service & fellowship

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7
Tennessee Performing Arts Center (Tpac) Management Corporation

To provide facilities, services, and programs of the highest quality for the greatest benefit of the people, institutions, and communities of the state, and to take a leadership role in fostering the performing arts, arts education,…

Arts & Culture
8
Nashville Police & Public Safety Alliance

To create a safer nashville through initiatives that engage our community, businesses, and nonprofits to prevent crime, introduce innovation and best practices, and help build the best police department in the nation.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Girls Write Nashville

Girls write nashville empowers expression through songwriting, production, mentorship and creative community for teen artists. we are an artist and educator-led 501(c)(3) creative youth development program in nashville, tn allied with…

Arts & Culture
10
Northeast Tenn Assoc of Realtors

Our mission is to serve our members through education, professionalism, and legislative involvement

—
11
Tennessee Health Care Association

To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.

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12
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee; the most unlike its peers is DADA2 Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

124 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 124 of the 201 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
123/124
Grantees still filing
100/124
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE TEMPLE: $143,930 · OtherTHE TEMPLENJFF: $111,000 · OtherNJFFVANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP: $66,613 · OtherVANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPEQUAL CHANCE FOR ED: $32,050 · Other+118 more: $539,920 · Other+118 moreNASHVILLE BALLET: $222,895 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE BALLETFRIST ART MUSEUM: $71,500 · Arts & CultureFRIST ART MUSEUMNashville Symphony Association: $48,540 · Arts & CultureNashville Symphony Assoc…BELCOURT THEATRE INC: $33,500 · Arts & CultureBELCOURT THEATRE INCNASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO: $33,000 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIOCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $32,500 · Arts & CultureCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARD…OZ ARTS INC: $27,000 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $21,000 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $20,625 · Arts & Culture+15 more: $45,300 · Arts & Culture+15 moreVanderbilt University Medical Center: $402,331 · HealthVanderbilt Univers…+12 more: $14,770 · HealthJEWISH FEDERATION OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $238,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FED…+2 more: $4,550 · PhilanthropyNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $127,043 · AnimalsNASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $31,255 · AnimalsPET COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 · AnimalsTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $7,000 · Animals+6 more: $8,000 · AnimalsJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NASHVILLE: $117,407 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $17,300 · Human ServicesALIVE HOSPICE INC: $7,600 · Human ServicesTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $6,000 · Human Services+10 more: $21,700 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE: $51,500 · EducationNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $25,840 · EducationPENCIL FOUNDATION: $22,100 · EducationTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL: $10,100 · EducationNASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationEQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION: $8,500 · EducationMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE: $7,000 · Education+6 more: $9,700 · Education
Other$893,513Arts & Culture$555,860Health$417,101Philanthropy$243,050Animals$183,298Human Services$170,007Education$154,740

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $402,331 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $238,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetNASHVILLE BALLET: $222,895 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $127,043 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NASHVILLE: $117,407 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFRIST ART MUSEUM: $71,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE: $51,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNashville Symphony Association: $48,540 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBELCOURT THEATRE INC: $33,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO: $33,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $32,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $31,255 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOZ ARTS INC: $27,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $25,840 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetABE'S GARDEN: $25,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC: $24,900 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPENCIL FOUNDATION: $22,100 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $21,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $20,625 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NASHVILLE SURGICAL SOCIETY: $19,425 over 6y, 13% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $17,300 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBACKFIELD IN MOTION: $17,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetARTS AND BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER NASHVILLE INC: $13,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL: $10,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPET COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $9,600 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTENNGREEN LAND CONSERVANCY: $8,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetALIVE HOSPICE INC: $7,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCASA INC: $7,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $7,350 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $7,320 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAKIVA SCHOOL: $7,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWO SMITH NASHVILLE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $7,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $6,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWAYS FOR NASHVILLE INC: $5,800 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCONEXION AMERICAS: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION: $5,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $5,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT THOMAS HEALTH FOUNDATIONS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW DIALECT: $5,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetLEADERSHIP NASHVILLE FOUNDATION: $4,630 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetOASIS CENTER INC: $4,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $3,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE BALLET ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NASHVILLE ↗
  • Who funds FRIST ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE ↗
  • Who funds Nashville Symphony Association ↗
  • Who funds BELCOURT THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds OZ ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ABE'S GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds PENCIL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NASHVILLE SURGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds BACKFIELD IN MOTION ↗
  • Who funds ARTS AND BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER NASHVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Memorial Foundation IncTN122.7× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • National Center for Jewish Filminc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
47report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 201 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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