· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOAVES & FISHES OF CLARKSVILLE | $100,000 |
| NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVSION | $100,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTE | $100,000 |
| URBAN MINISTRIES SAFE HOUSE | $100,000 |
| MANNA CAFE MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| CLARKSVILLE ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| CMC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CUSTOM HOUSE FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| SOLIDERS & FAMILIES EMBRACED INC | $56,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 64% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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
How this is measured
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 -2%
- YSYALL SQUAD INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +145%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds CLARKSVILLE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MANNA CAFE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CUSTOMS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES OF CLARKSVILLE ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Virginia James and Jason Feltner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Virginia James and Jason Feltner Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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