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Woosley Family Foundation Trust at a glance

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Woosley Family Foundation Trust

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.

$16k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$41kReligion$9kArts & Culture$8kRecreation & Sports$4kYouth Development$4kHealth$3kHuman Services$2kAnimals$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$103k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WEBB SCHOOL$5,780
HARDING ACADEMY$4,202
THE WEBB SCHOOL$2,500
THE WEBB SCHOOL$1,486
PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NASHVILLE$500
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY$500
FRIST ART MUSEUM$500
Individual grant recipient$300
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$250
WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY$100
100 CLUB OF NASHVILLE$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–19, $600) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE FAMILY CENTER: $500 → 14%THE FAMILY CENTER: $100 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

CT
VA
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$71k · 26 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
17

Total granted

$71k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+208%

Still filing today

54%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 & CultureAnimalsRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TW
    THE WEBB SCHOOL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $29k · revenue +11%
  • HA
    HARDING ACADEMY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +52%
  • NS
    Nashville Symphony Association
    6× · 2017–2023 · $4k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • VU
    VANDERBILT UNIV MED CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • TF
    THISTLE FARMS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +212%
  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
The Webb Schools

Webb's mission is to provide a dynamic learning community that nurtures and inspires our students and alumni to think boldly, mindfully, and creatively; act with honor and moral courage; lead with distinction; and serve with a generous…

Education
3
Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy

Together, we teach and learn skills that foster the courage to discover our voices, develop old and new passions, practice balance in the pursuit of excellence, and collaborate in building vibrant,inclusive, and sustainable communities.

Education
4
Austin Trinity School

Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…

Education
5
Kings Academy Nashville

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.

Education
6
Lead Public Schools Inc

Lead public schools exists to prepare all our students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in college and in life.

Education
7
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
8
The New American Academy Charter School

The new american academy charter school empowers learners and inspires leaders to make this a better world. through our collaborative teacher teams, mastery-based career ladder, and looping cycles, we offer personalized rigorous…

Education
9
Union University

Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education
10
Our Lady of the Woods Corporation

To operate a private school for age 3 through eighth grade students.

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11
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
12
Boston Architectural College

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

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is Thistle Farms Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE WEBB SCHOOL: $29,201 · EducationTHE WEBB SCHOOLHARDING ACADEMY: $7,527 · EducationHARDING ACADEMYWashington and Lee University: $1,800 · Education+3 more: $1,825 · EducationWEST END METHODIST CHURCH: $8,225 · OtherWEST END METHODIST CHURCHVANDERBILT UNIV MED CENTER: $2,500 · OtherVANDERBILT UNIV MED CENTERBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $1,500 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAFRIST CENTER FOR VISUAL ARTS: $1,475 · OtherFRIST CENTER FOR VISUAL ARTSIndividual grant recipient: $1,300 · OtherCHEEKWOOD - SWAN BALL: $1,150 · OtherTHISTLE FARMS INC: $1,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS: $1,000 · OtherWASHINGTON & LEE ANNUAL FUND: $900 · Other+21 more: $6,430 · Other+21 moreNashville Symphony Association: $4,000 · Arts & CultureNashville…FRIST ART MUSEUM: $1,500 · Arts & CultureFRIST ART…THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NASHVILLE: $500 · Arts & CultureTHE PRESE…ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION: $281 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $2,900 · Recreation & SportsNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $1,250 · AnimalsNASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $585 · AnimalsBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $1,250 · Youth DevelopmentTHE FAMILY CENTER INC: $600 · Human Services
Education$40,353Other$25,480Arts & Culture$6,281Recreation & Sports$2,900Animals$1,835Youth Development$1,250Human Services$600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE WEBB SCHOOL: $29,201 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHARDING ACADEMY: $7,527 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNashville Symphony Association: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $2,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $1,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIST ART MUSEUM: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL: $625 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY CENTER INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $585 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 100 CLUB INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION: $281 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRALLY FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE WEBB SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HARDING ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Nashville Symphony Association ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
  • Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
  • Who funds FRIST ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO INC ↗
  • Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE ↗
  • Who funds THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NASHVILLE ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds THE 100 CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds RALLY FOUNDATION INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…Raymond James Charita…Baird Foundation IncEbs FoundationMemorial Foundation I…American Endowment Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN14.8× affinity5 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 · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · Ebs Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Woosley Family Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Woosley Family Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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