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Thomas & Mamie Houser Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k42 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $104k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES | $40,000 |
| OASIS CENTER | $20,000 |
| HARPETH HALL SCHOOL | $14,000 |
| NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT | $10,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN | $10,000 |
| NASHVILLE TREE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS | $7,500 |
| WESTMINSTER HOME CONNECTION | $7,500 |
| YWCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $5,250 |
| UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN NASHVILLE | $5,000 |
| THE LEGION FUND (COMMUNITY FDN OF SOUTH CENTRAL KY) | $5,000 |
| HARDING ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| NASHVILLE ZOO | $2,500 |
| ROOM IN THE INN | $2,500 |
| SAFE HAVEN | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $28k) 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 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.
54 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- PTPRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES9× · 2017–2025 · $335k · revenue +25%
- OCOASIS CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $204k · revenue +57%
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $128k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- MOMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +153%
- HWHILLSBORO WEND NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCone grant, 2018 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
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.
To empower adults with developmental disabilities by providing affordable housing, work that is meaningful and an inclusive community in which to live.
The nashville chamber public benefit foundation supports the work of the nashville area chamber of commerce through efforts to improve the quality of education, encourage public and private efforts around education, and to facilitate the…
Nashvillehealth creates a culture of health and wellbeing by serving as a convener to open dialogue, aligning resources and building smart strategic partnerships to create a plan for health unique to nashvilles needs.
Greenways for nashville promotes, supports, and enhances a system of greenways and open space in nashville and davidson county.
Ntc mission is to advance the diverse technology ecosystem by connecting and promoting members, attracting, growing and retaining tech talent, and providing opportunities to reinvest in the greater nashville community.
Provide needy families and individuals with rent and utilities assistance in order to prevent their eviction or termination of utility services. also provide food and other assistance to needy families and individuals.
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…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Nashville rescue mission, formerly known as nrm holdings, inc., fein 45-2424130, continues the mission services established in 1954, by nashville rescue mission, fein 62-6018832. following god's command to love our neighbors as ourselves,…
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.
To restore and protect clean water and healthy ecosystems for rivers in tennessee by employing scientific expertise and collaborative relationships to develop, promote, and support broad community stewardship and action.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Parks Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Shower Up. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
57 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. 57 of the 90 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 PRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds OASIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER HOME CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE TREE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE ↗
- Who funds UNICYCLE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds HARDING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ROOFTOP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds MONROE HARDING INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Goodwill Industries of Middle TN Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds CROWDED TABLE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Enchiridion Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc · James R Meadows Jr Foundation
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 Thomas & Mamie Houser Charitable 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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