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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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Philanthropy$1.6MEducation$1.0MEnvironment$645kHealth$485kArts & Culture$303kReligion$202kInternational$120kHuman Services$32kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

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
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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.

area typical 11%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%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

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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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 13 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
35

Total granted

$1.5M
$627k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+17%

Still filing today

69%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $616k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

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    NASHVILLEHEALTH
    4× · 2017–2024 · $275k · revenue +392% · 25% of their budget
  • AP
    AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +4%
  • AA
    Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center NFP
    2× · 2017–2018 · $23k · revenue +147%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $116k
  • Vanderbilt University
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -1%
  • HF
    HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF WILLIAMSON COUNTYgraduated
    one 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.

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
Eastern National

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.

Recreation & Sports
3
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
4
Npr Foundation

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…

5
University of Virginia Foundation

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…

Education
6
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

8
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
9
Harpeth Conservancy

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.

Environment
10
United States Naval Institute

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.

11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
12
Augustana College

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…

Education

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPublic University Foundatio…Land Conservation Organizat…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Health CentersEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…Christian Missionary Organi…Independent K-8 SchoolsFood Pantries & AssistanceUnited Way FederationsChild and Family ServicesLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Classical Music EnsemblesHospice Care ServicesCancer Support OrganizationsCommunity Arts OrganizationsVeteran Support ServicesSubstance Abuse TreatmentCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr17%13%10–20yr13%33%20–35yr11%13%35–55yr24%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr17%11%10–20yr13%52%20–35yr11%2%35–55yr24%33%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/51
the rest of the field
13%
4,627/36,349

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

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
27/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $1,044,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESS…AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $527,837 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATIONHOPE THROUGH HEALING HANDS — $100,000 · PhilanthropyHOPE THROUGH HEALING HANDS+6 more — $24,500 · PhilanthropyMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $520,000 · EducationMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIV…AUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $232,500 · EducationAUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSIT…Vanderbilt University — $100,000 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE — $100,000 · EducationMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGEHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION — $100,000 · EducationHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORAT…+2 more — $44,000 · EducationNATURE CONSERVANCY OF TENNESSEE — $355,000 · OtherNATURE CONSERVANCY OF T…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $160,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYIndividual grant recipient — $116,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipi…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE -ELIZABETH & BRYAN FRIST FUND — $40,000 · OtherHERITAGE PLANTATION FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Other+26 more — $226,900 · Other+26 moreNASHVILLEHEALTH — $275,000 · HealthNASHVILLE…THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $75,000 · HealthTHE MICHA…Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center NFP — $23,000 · HealthAbove and…+2 more — $2,250 · HealthNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $112,000 · Arts & CultureHERITAGE FOUNDATION OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $15,250 · Arts & CultureTENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION — $40,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION INC — $30,000 · EnvironmentTHE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · International
Philanthropy$1,696,337Education$1,096,500Other$932,900Health$375,250Arts & Culture$237,250Environment$130,000International$20,000

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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $1,044,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $527,837 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $520,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetNASHVILLEHEALTH — $275,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetAUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $232,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $112,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE THROUGH HEALING HANDS — $100,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetVanderbilt University — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAbove and Beyond Family Recovery Center NFP — $23,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL — $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT — $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSILOAM HEALTH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMISSISSIPPI FOOD NETWORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY ACTION NETWORK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNashville Symphony Association — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Red Road Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ESSEX & WEST HUDSON D/B/A UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEWARK — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKETOWN OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC — $400 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.

Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist FoundationTN26× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • United Way of Essex & West Hudson D/B/a United Way of Greater Newark2% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report 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, FY2025

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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How do I get to William H Frist Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to William H Frist 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 64 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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