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William H Frist 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $620k
- $250k+2 grants · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $300,000 |
| AUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $232,500 |
| THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION | $112,000 |
| MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH | $75,000 |
| TENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $50,000 |
| HOPE THROUGH HEALING HANDS | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN PRAIRIE RESERVE | $15,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MID TN COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE | $10,000 |
| SILOAM HEALTH | $10,000 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP | $6,000 |
| FRIST ART MUSEUM | $5,250 |
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 (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 11 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $616k 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
- NNASHVILLEHEALTH4× · 2017–2024 · $275k · revenue +392% · 25% of their budget
- APAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +4%
- AAAbove and Beyond Family Recovery Center NFP2× · 2017–2018 · $23k · revenue +147%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $116k
Vanderbilt Universityone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -1%- HFHERITAGE FOUNDATION OF WILLIAMSON COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +105%
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 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.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
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.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Area Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 64 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLEHEALTH ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds HOPE THROUGH HEALING HANDS ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE PLANTATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center NFP ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT ↗
- Who funds SILOAM HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI FOOD NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ↗
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 · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Martha W Banker Charitable Trust · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · The Frist Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Ayers Foundation · Regions Foundation · Henry Laird Smith Foundation · Pam Lewis 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 William H Frist 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.
- United Way of Essex & West Hudson D/B/a United Way of Greater Newark — 2% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% 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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