How much does The West End Home Foundation give?

The West End Home Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $2,254,150 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 60 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The West End Home Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (39%), Health (23%), Housing & Shelter (9%).

Who are The West End Home Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Interfaith Dental Clinic of Nashville ($2.2M), Senior Citizens Inc ($2.0M), Westminster Home Connection ($1.0M).

Does The West End Home Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The West End Home Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The West End Home Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Memorial Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc.

Where is The West End Home Foundation based?

The West End Home Foundation is based in TN.

The West End Home Foundation

The West End Home Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

The West End Home Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.3M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$400k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$8.0MHealth$4.7MHousing & Shelter$1.8MCommunity Improvement$950kFood & Nutrition$942kArts & Culture$915kEducation$724kCrime & Legal$707kOther$0

02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $8k
$10k–50k27 grants · $653k
$50k–250k15 grants · $1.2M
$250k+1 grant · $400k

$40,000

Median grant

States reached

$49M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SENIOR CITIZENS INC	$400,000
TENNESSEE RESPITE COALITION	$141,000
AGEWELL MIDDLE TENNESSEE	$105,000
INTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE	$100,000
WESTMINSTER HOME CONNECTION	$100,000
NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC	$90,000
BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE	$82,400
TENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER	$80,000
INSPIRITUS INC	$70,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC	$70,000
SENIOR RIDE NASHVILLE INC	$70,000
REBUILDING TOGETHER NASHVILLE	$65,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TENNESSEE INC	$60,000
ST LUKES COMMUNITY HOUSE EPISCOPAL INC	$55,000
NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC	$55,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $6.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$19M · 62 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.

62 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$19M

$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%

-9%

Still filing today

84%

39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionEducationCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther

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

ID
INTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +191%
SC
SENIOR CITIZENS INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +55%
WH
WESTMINSTER HOME CONNECTION
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +575% · 46% of their budget

Funded once

SH
SOUTHWEST HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY
one grant, 2022 · $400k
KS
KINGSPORT SENIOR CENTER
one grant, 2022 · $124k
SC
SIGNAL CENTERS INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +185%

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.

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

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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Mid-Tn Supported Living Inc

To assist persons with intellectual disabilities and other disabilities live in the community in such a way that there is an acceptable balance between their opportunities to experience a lifestyle meaningful to themselves and the risks…

Human Services

Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture

Michael Dunn Center

To empower individuals living with disabilities and challenges to gain independence

Human Services

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

Mental Health Cooperative Inc

Mental health cooperative inc. (mhc) provides integrated health services that include behavioral health care, primary health care, addiction services, and community-based care management. mhc also provides emergency psychiatric services…

Health

Legal Aid of East Tennessee

Legal aid of east tennessee provides legal representation, legal education, and other civil legal services for the low-income population in our community through advocacy of all types.

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First Tennessee Human Resource Agency

First tennessee human resource agency is a governmental agency whose primary exempt purpose is providing human resource programs to the cities and counties of northeast tennessee.

Human Services

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

Tennessee Charitable Care Network

The mission of tccn is to support, educate, and represent non-profit organizations that provide charitable healthcare services to low-income, uninsured, and underserved tennesseans. tccn envisions a strong, compassionate healthcare safety…

Health

United Way of South Central Tennessee

The united way of south central tennessee's mission is to improve lives by advancing opportunities for education, health, and financial stability for all. its vision is to be the primary community solutions leader for human services.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rebuilding Together Nashville Inc; the most unlike its peers is Home Bound Meals Program. 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

60 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. 60 of the 82 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

60/60

Grantees still filing

46/60

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$6,755,823Other$7,093,904Health$3,066,081Community Improvement$1,033,000Arts & Culture$857,000Food & Nutrition$797,000Crime & Legal$687,300

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.

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 IncTN70.6× affinity32 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 · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Joe C Davis Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Kharis Foundation · Enchiridion Foundation · Nashville Predators 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 West End Home Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The West End Home Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

33report 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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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