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Yarbrough 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
56% of Yarbrough Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Of Middle Tennessee Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 16 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Yarbrough Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 63 organizations, $4M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k38 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $520k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YARBROUGH FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND AT FIDELITY CHARITABLE | $2,500,160 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER NASHVILLE | $150,000 |
| BATTLE GROUND ACADEMY | $150,000 |
| NASHVILLE ENTREPRENEUR CENTER | $150,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $120,000 |
| BEACON CENTER OF TENNESSEE | $100,000 |
| HRC FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| USA FOR UNHCR | $100,000 |
| UNICEF USA | $100,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - MIDDLE TN COUNCIL | $55,000 |
| RAZOM INC | $50,000 |
| THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND | $50,000 |
| CARE | $50,000 |
| GLOBALGIVING | $50,000 |
| ACLU - TN | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
106 repeat relationships: 66 still active in FY2023, 40 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BGBATTLE GROUND ACADEMY7× · 2017–2023 · $3.9M · revenue +58%
- TNTHE NASHVILLE ENTREPRENEUR CENTER6× · 2017–2023 · $630k · revenue +28%
- CFCENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC7× · 2017–2024 · $509k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF NASHVILLEone grant, 2020 · $225k
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +38%
- MHMental Health Active Response Teamone grant, 2020 · $96k · revenue -100% · 80% of their budget
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.
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.
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.
Nashville cares exists to end the hiv epidemic, promote comprehensive sexual health and end sexual health stigmatization and discrimination through prevention, education, treatment, support, advocacy, and strategic partnership.
Bloodwater mission, inc. (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization registered in nashville, tennessee that operates an international nonprofit that partners with african community-driven organizations to end water and hiv/aids…
Tirrc is a statewide, immigrant and refugee-led collaboration. our mission is to build power, amplify our voices, and organize communities to advocate for our rights. our vision is a stronger, more inclusive tennessee where people of all…
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.
Cumberland 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 the patient's ability to pay.
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…
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
Roane County 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.
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.
Ntc mission is to advance the diverse technology ecosystem by connecting and promoting members, attracting, growing and retaining tech talent, and providing opportunities to reinvest in the greater nashville community.
Convene passionate, collaborative partners to help build bold, data-driven systems and solutions that promote healthy communities for all
How this is measured
121 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. 121 of the 181 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds BATTLE GROUND ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE NASHVILLE ENTREPRENEUR CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR OCALA MARION COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEACON CENTER OF TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds Thurgood Marshall College Fund ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Active Response Team ↗
- Who funds NAMI TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
- Who funds STATE POLICY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE TN ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Nashville Predators Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Frist Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Dettwiller Foundation · Tennessee Titans Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Yarbrough Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Yarbrough Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Marion Therapeutic Riding Association Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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