· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MANNA CAFE MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| CMC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVSION | $100,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTE | $100,000 |
| URBAN MINISTRIES SAFE HOUSE | $100,000 |
| CLARKSVILLE ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| CUSTOM HOUSE FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| LOAVES & FISHES OF CLARKSVILLE | $100,000 |
| SOLIDERS & FAMILIES EMBRACED INC | $56,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 64% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- NPNASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +22%
- VUVanderbilt University Medical Center6× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +91%
- CACLARKSVILLE ACADEMY3× · 2022–2024 · $280k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- WWWISCASSET WATERVILLE & FARMINGTON Rone grant, 2021 · $187k
- HPHOPE PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTERone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue -22%
- YSYALL SQUAD INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +145%
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.
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…
Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Association provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Fort Loudoun Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Rahab House is deeply committed to the rescue, refuge, and restoration of human trafficking survivors. We provide comprehensive support that encompasses immediate safety and connections to long-term restorative care in alignment with the…
Public benefit
The mission of My Fathers House Nashville (MFHN) is to provide shelter, parenting education, recovery information and life skills for fathers transitioning out of institutional settings or homelessness.
Our mission is to be a home away from home for patients and caregivers seeking medical treatment in nashville hospitals by providing lodging, meals, and other supportive services.
Mission: johns hopkins howard county medical center, a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service excellence,…
To provide a "temporary" home-away-from-home for children and families of seriously ill children receiving medical care in any local hospital.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Customs House Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 20 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 NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds CLARKSVILLE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MANNA CAFE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES OF CLARKSVILLE ↗
- Who funds CUSTOMS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds HOPE PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds YALL SQUAD INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
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.
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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 Virginia James and Jason Feltner Family 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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