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The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation at a glance

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The Wade-Buntin 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.

$271k
Granted FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$523kRecreation & Sports$312kEnvironment$283kEducation$163kReligion$131kHuman Services$103kHealth$90kAnimals$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k52 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VOLUNTEER STATE HORSEMENS FOUNDATION$104,500
ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION$55,000
HARPETH CONSERVANCY$25,000
FRIENDS OF WARNER PARKS$11,000
IMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH$7,000
GREENWAYS FOR NASHVILLE$5,500
ALIVE HOSPICE$5,000
FLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY$5,000
ST GEORGE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$5,000
CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART$3,500
SEWANEE THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH$3,250
Individual grant recipient$3,000
SAILFISH POINT FOUNDATION$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$2,000
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 (FY17–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SHOWERUP: $300 → 10%FRIENDS LIFE COMMUNITY: $3k → 14%YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $3k → 14%YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $2k → 14%FRIENDS LIFE COMMUNITY: $1k → 14%YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $2k → 14%FRIENDS LIFE COMMUNITY: $1k → 14%YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $1k → 14%FRIENDS LIFE COMMUNITY: $1k → 14%YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $1k → 14%YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $1k → 14%FRIENDS LIFE COMMUNITY: $500 → 14%MOTHER TO MOTHER: $520 → 14%FRIENDS LIFE COMMUNITY: $500 → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $1k → 14%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%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $500 → 14%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $500 → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $500 → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $500 → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $500 → 14%SHOWERTHEPEOPLE: $500 → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $500 → 14%SHOWERTHEPEOPLE: $500 → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $500 → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $500 → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $500 → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $500 → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $5k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $1k → 14%ROOFTOP NASHVILLE: $1k → 14%ROOFTOP NASHVILLE: $1k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $1k → 14%ROOFTOP NASHVILLE: $1k → 14%FIFTY FORWARD: $1k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $500 → 14%OPERATION STAND DOWN: $500 → 14%OPERATION STAND DOWN: $500 → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $500 → 14%OPERATION STAND DOWN: $500 → 14%OPERATION STAND DOWN: $500 → 14%OPERATION STAND DOWN: $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

VT
NY
MA
IN
PA
CA
KY
MD
TN
DC
FL
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 116 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

116 repeat relationships: 48 still active in FY2025, 68 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

116
59

Total granted

$2.1M
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+43%

Still filing today

56%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthRecreation & 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

  • TV
    THE VOLUNTEER STATE HORSEMEN'S FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $234k · revenue +25%
  • HC
    HARPETH CONSERVANCY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $153k · revenue +281%
  • NP
    NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +367%

Funded once

  • M
    MAGDALENE
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • MC
    MONROE CARELL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • SA
    SAINT AUGUSTINE'S CHAPEL
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
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 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
2
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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3
Northeast Tenn Assoc of Realtors

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

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4
Nashville Parks Foundation

Nasvhille parks foundation enhances public parks and expands recreational opprotunities whiles promoting sustainable growth of the park system.

Environment
5
Park Center Inc

Park center has been serving nashville for over 40 years, providing a place for hope and recovery for people experiencing serious mental illness, homelessness, and addiction. we meet people where they are and provide support through…

Employment
6
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
7
Tennessee State Parks Conservancy

To support education, health and access programs that preserve, protect, and enhance Tennessee's natural areas and parks system.

Environment
8
Nashville Bar Association

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

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9
Tennessee Aquarium

The mission of the Tennessee Aquarium is to connect people with nature and empower them to make informed decisions about water and wildlife.

Animals
10
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
11
Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville Inc

Arts & business council of greater nashville supports and promotes the arts by driving collaboration between arts and business that contribute to the creativity, vitality, and prosperity of greater nashville/the regions/the city.

Crime & Legal
12
Leadership Tennessee Inc

Leadership tennessee fosters collaborative, non-partisan dialogue on issues of state importance, by connecting and deploying a network of diverse leaders and engaged citizens.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is Pomona College. 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

95 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. 95 of the 183 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
35
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/95
Grantees still filing
81/95
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $260,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE VOLUNTEER STATE HORSEMEN'S FOUNDATION: $233,742 · OtherTHE VOLUNTEER STATE HORSEMEN'S FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $165,074 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH: $54,100 · OtherFLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC: $38,500 · Other+118 more: $391,660 · Other+118 moreANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION: $401,200 · Arts & CultureANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION…CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $33,975 · Arts & CultureCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDE…TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 · Arts & Culture+15 more: $41,892 · Arts & Culture+15 moreHARPETH CONSERVANCY: $152,900 · EnvironmentHARPETH CO…CUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC: $35,000 · EnvironmentCUMBERLAND…THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC: $11,500 · EnvironmentTHE LAND T…+1 more: $4,400 · EnvironmentNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $73,150 · EducationSAILFISH POINT FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationBATTLE GROUND ACADEMY: $20,500 · EducationPOMONA COLLEGE: $13,000 · EducationTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL: $11,700 · Education+9 more: $13,300 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $63,550 · Recreation & SportsGREENWAYS FOR NASHVILLE INC: $5,500 · Recreation & SportsTENNGREEN LAND CONSERVANCY: $4,300 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $4,000 · Recreation & SportsYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $11,208 · Human ServicesALIVE HOSPICE INC: $7,975 · Human ServicesTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $7,000 · Human ServicesFriends Life Community: $6,500 · Human ServicesST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesROOFTOP FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $2,550 · Human ServicesOPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE: $2,500 · Human Services+4 more: $2,820 · Human ServicesSADDLE UP: $43,550 · Health+6 more: $4,435 · Health
Other$1,143,476Arts & Culture$494,067Environment$203,800Education$161,650Recreation & Sports$77,350Human Services$48,053Health$47,985

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 budgetANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION: $401,200 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetTHE VOLUNTEER STATE HORSEMEN'S FOUNDATION: $233,742 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetHARPETH CONSERVANCY: $152,900 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $73,150 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $63,550 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetSADDLE UP: $43,550 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetFLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC: $38,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC: $35,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $33,975 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $31,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSAILFISH POINT FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetBATTLE GROUND ACADEMY: $20,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $14,242 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $13,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE: $13,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL: $11,700 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC: $11,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $11,208 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $10,100 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $8,600 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBELCOURT THEATRE INC: $8,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetALIVE HOSPICE INC: $7,975 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $7,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends Life Community: $6,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGREENWAYS FOR NASHVILLE INC: $5,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO: $4,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE MONARCH: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE: $4,400 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTENNGREEN LAND CONSERVANCY: $4,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHERITAGE FOUNDATION OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY: $3,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCHELLE CENTER: $3,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONTRIBUTOR INC: $3,100 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetROOFTOP FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARY: $2,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWALDENS PUDDLE WILDLIFE REHABILITATION & EDUCATIO: $2,650 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INC: $2,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF FRANKLIN PARKS INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBIG FLUFFY DOG RESCUE: $2,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCIVIC DESIGN CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFISK UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBATTLE OF FRANKLIN TRUST INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIST ART MUSEUM: $1,750 over 2y, 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 ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE VOLUNTEER STATE HORSEMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HARPETH CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
  • Who funds SADDLE UP ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds CUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC ↗
  • Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SAILFISH POINT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BATTLE GROUND ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
  • Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
  • Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BELCOURT THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS ↗

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 I…The Community Foundat…Hca Healthcare Founda…Dorothy Cate and Thom…The Frist FoundationThe Steven & Laurie E…Msb Cockayne Fund IncEnchiridion FoundationEbs FoundationUnited Way of Middle …The Blum Family Found…Joe C Davis Foundation
Memorial Foundation IncTN77.6× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Frist Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc · Enchiridion Foundation · Ebs Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Blum Family Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation

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 Wade-Buntin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Florida Oceanographic Society Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
31report 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.

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 183 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home