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Toby S Wilt Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$181k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$504kRecreation & Sports$145kHuman Services$87kArts & Culture$79kHealth$73kPhilanthropy$48kInternational$27kReligion$19kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$105,300
FRIENDS OF WARNER PARK$15,000
FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
SNEDEKER FOUNDATION$10,000
MASTERS TOURNAMENT FOUNDATION$10,000
ENSWORTH SCHOOL$5,000
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH$5,000
THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NASHVILLE$3,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC$2,500
SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER$1,000
TENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION$1,000
TENNESSEE HIGHER EDUCATION INITIATIVE$1,000
UNITED WAY OF EAST TN HIGHLANDS$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%King's Home: $500 → 7%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%TAKE A SOLDER FISHING: $1k → 10%TAKE A SOLDER FISHING: $1k → 10%Project Redesign: $250 → 14%FRIENDS LIFE COMMUNITY: $1k → 14%FRIENDS LIFE COMMUNITY: $1k → 14%FRIENDS LIFE COMMUNITY: $1k → 14%Alive Hospice: $10k → 14%ROOFTOP NASHVILLE: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
VA
TN
NC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$819k · 34 repeat orgs$172k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +64% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
56

Total granted

$819k
$149k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+64%

Still filing today

74%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TE
    THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $226k · revenue +47%
  • Vanderbilt University
    4× · 2017–2024 · $219k · revenue +74%
  • TG
    TENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +119%

Funded once

  • GC
    GILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TENNESSEEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +161%
  • UW
    US WOMEN'S AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP
    one grant, 2018 · $13k
  • AH
    ALIVE HOSPICE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +1%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

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…

Health
3
Ut Medical Group Inc

To be a successful physician led, professionally managed medical practice that benefits our patients and our community, while supporting the UT Health Science Center's mission through clinical excellence, financial responsibility and a…

Health
4
Southern Tennis Association Inc

Growing tennis to inspire healthier people and communities everywhere.

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5
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist 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.

Health
6
Northeast Tenn Assoc of Realtors

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

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7
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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8
Morehouse School of Medicine

Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…

Education
9
Tennessee State Collaborative On Reforming Education

The mission of the state collaborative on reforming education (score) is to catalyze transformative change in tennessee education so that all students can achieve success. score is an independent, nonprofit, and nonpartisan institution,…

Education
10
Johnston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

Johnston health foundation seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people in our communities by supporting the patients, programs, and services of unc health johnston. the foundation seeks to be a philanthropic leader and…

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11
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Masters Tournament 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.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%3%<5yr14%6%5–10yr17%17%10–20yr13%20%20–35yr11%31%35–55yr24%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr17%5%10–20yr13%10%20–35yr11%29%35–55yr24%53%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/69
the rest of the field
13%
4,628/36,331

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.

04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 99 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/67
Grantees still filing
60/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL — $225,700 · EducationTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOLVanderbilt University — $219,300 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityThe Golf Club of Tennessee — $29,250 · EducationThe Golf Club of Tennessee+9 more — $37,400 · Education+9 moreST GEORGE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $75,000 · OtherST GEORGE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHFRIENDS OF WARNER PARK — $42,900 · OtherFRIENDS OF WARNER PARKIndividual grant recipient — $19,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL — $15,000 · OtherFRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOLTRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $13,500 · OtherUS WOMEN'S AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP — $12,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $9,100 · Other+41 more — $66,430 · Other+41 moreTENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION — $44,000 · Arts & CultureTENNESSEE GOL…CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART — $25,800 · Arts & CultureCHEEKWOOD BOT…FRIST ART MUSEUM — $22,700 · Arts & CultureFRIST ART MUS…NASHVILLE BALLET — $10,500 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE BAL…HUMANITIES TENNESSEE — $9,000 · Arts & CultureHUMANITIES TE…Nashville Symphony Association — $7,800 · Arts & CultureNashville Sym…+1 more — $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyMASTERS TOURNAMENT FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyPebble Beach Company Foundation — $2,500 · PhilanthropyThe High Country Charitable Foundation — $2,500 · Philanthropy+2 more — $2,100 · PhilanthropyGILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $20,000 · HealthTJ MARTELL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $5,000 · HealthCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC — $3,700 · HealthSTARS NASHVILLE — $2,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,500 · Health+8 more — $7,000 · HealthALIVE HOSPICE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesFriends Life Community — $3,000 · Human ServicesNAPLES TAKE A SOLDIER FISHING INC — $2,000 · Human Services+3 more — $1,250 · Human ServicesTENNESSEE SOCCER CLUB INC — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN — $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $250 · Youth Development
Education$511,650Other$253,630Arts & Culture$122,800Philanthropy$52,100Health$50,700Human Services$19,250Youth Development$6,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL — $225,700 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetVanderbilt University — $219,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION — $44,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetThe Golf Club of Tennessee — $29,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART — $25,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIST ART MUSEUM — $22,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE SNEDEKER FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetNASHVILLE BALLET — $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALIVE HOSPICE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASTERS TOURNAMENT FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTJ MARTELL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUMANITIES TENNESSEE — $9,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNashville Symphony Association — $7,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE SOCCER CLUB INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN MISSION SCHOOL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE ZOO INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC — $3,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $3,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NASHVILLE — $3,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends Life Community — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDEN ISLES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSTARS NASHVILLE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPebble Beach Company Foundation — $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe High Country Charitable Foundation — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNAPLES TAKE A SOLDIER FISHING INC — $2,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSADDLE UP — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC — $1,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC — $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE HIGHER EDUCATION INITIATIVE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EAST TENNESSEE HIGHLANDS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Heimerdinger Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HUNDRED CLUB OF NASHVILLE — $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY COLONY GOLF CLUB INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKings Home Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…The Frist FoundationHca Healthcare Founda…Memorial Foundation I…Dorothy Cate and Thom…Ebs FoundationNashville Predators F…The Wade-Buntin Famil…The Steven & Laurie E…The Rich FoundationLouise B Wallace Foun…Msb Cockayne Fund Inc
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN40.3× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Ebs Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · The Rich Foundation · Louise B Wallace Foundation 19702 · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc

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 Toby S Wilt 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
14report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Toby S Wilt Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Toby S Wilt Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 99 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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