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The Virginia James and Jason Feltner Family 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.

$856k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
18
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 18
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$17M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations The Virginia James and Jason Feltner Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$856k0%
FY202318$870k33%
FY202213$866k77%
FY20214$907k50%
FY20202$953k0%
FY20192$1.0Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.8MHealth$1.7MEducation$747kFood & Nutrition$475kHuman Services$271kPhilanthropy$200kPublic Safety & Disaster$130kHousing & Shelter$125k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of The Virginia James and Jason Feltner Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Nashville Public Television Inc$1,593,64169%
Vanderbilt University Medical Center$1,493,64260%
Clarksville Academy$280,00031%
Manna Cafe Ministries$275,00031%
Customs House Foundation Inc$200,00033%
Loaves and Fishes of Clarksville$200,00039%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$105,00020%
Habitat for Humanity$100,000229%
Hope Pregnancy Support Center$75,000115%
Yall Squad Incorporated$40,00019%
Nashville Rescue Mission$25,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Virginia James and Jason Feltner Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNashville Public Television Inc: $1,593,641 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $1,493,642 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetClarksville Academy: $280,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetManna Cafe Ministries: $275,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCustoms House Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetLoaves and Fishes of Clarksville: $200,000 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $105,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity: $100,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetHope Pregnancy Support Center: $75,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetYall Squad Incorporated: $40,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetNashville Rescue Mission: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About The Virginia James and Jason Feltner Family Foundation

How much does The Virginia James and Jason Feltner Family Foundation give?
The Virginia James and Jason Feltner Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $856,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The Virginia James and Jason Feltner Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Health (31%), Education (14%).
Who are The Virginia James and Jason Feltner Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Nashville Public Television Inc ($1.6M), Vanderbilt University Medical Center ($1.5M), Clarksville Academy ($280k).
Does The Virginia James and Jason Feltner Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Virginia James and Jason Feltner 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 Virginia James and Jason Feltner Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Virginia James and Jason Feltner Family Foundation based?
The Virginia James and Jason Feltner Family Foundation is based in TN.

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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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