· Private foundation
Tua the Anne Potter Wilson Fdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $372k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $672k
- $250k+2 grants · $841k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY AT U-NASHVILLE | $566,000 |
| TENNESSEE STATE PARKS CONSERVANCY | $275,000 |
| NAPLES CHILDREN & EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ABE'S GARDEN | $100,000 |
| ENSWORTH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| YMCA FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $100,000 |
| CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY | $62,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $60,000 |
| THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES | $50,000 |
| SB INITIATIVE INC | $50,000 |
| Renewal House Inc | $50,000 |
| MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| JAZZ AT ASPEN SNOWMASS | $35,000 |
| ASPEN ART MUSEUM | $35,000 |
| JOHANN FUST LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $508k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k 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
- NCNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $820k · revenue +31%
- TSTennessee State Parks Conservancy2× · 2023–2025 · $475k · revenue ×12 · 50% of their budget
Vanderbilt University3× · 2020–2022 · $385k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $547k
- BSBLAIR SCHOOL OF MUSIC VANDERVILT UNIVone grant, 2023 · $544k
- TSTENNESSEE STATE PARKSone grant, 2020 · $100k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
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.
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.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lead Public Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Johann Fust Library 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 62 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 NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds YMCA FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds Tennessee State Parks Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
- Who funds ABE'S GARDEN ↗
- Who funds VALOR COLLEGIATE ACADEMIES ↗
- Who funds RENEWAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS ↗
- Who funds ASPEN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE A21 CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND TRAILS CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds SB INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds KING UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds JOHANN FUST LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BARRIER ISLAND PARKS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ADULT LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Blair J Wilson Charitable Trust · Sullivan Family Foundation Foundation · Scarlett Family Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · The Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dollar General Literacy 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 Tua the Anne Potter Wilson Fdn 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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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