Tennessee · Nonprofit
THE NASHVILLE CATALYST FUND
THE NASHVILLE CATALYST FUND (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $19,500,000 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($19,500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $19M
What The Nashville Catalyst Fund does
Mission
The Nashville Catalyst Fund (the "fund") is a tennessee non-profit public benefit corporation that offers flexible financing for the development and preservation of affordable housing within nashville and davidson county. The fund enables mission-motivated developers to be more competitive in the race to preserve existing regulated and unregulated affordable housing and accelerates the creation of high-impact affordable housing.the fund is a supporting organization of the community foundation of middle tennessee ("cfmt"), a tennessee non-profit corporation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
By blending capital from a range of sources, the fund provides early-stage capital to mission-driven developers to support the preservation and creation of affordable housing supply in nashville.the catalyst fund is a new tool that responds to the specific conditions faced by affordable housing developers trying to increase affordable housing production in nashville. Loan products are tailored to the nashville market and are designed to support the preservation and construction of affordable housing.mission-driven developers that are being outcompeted in the race to preserve older affordable housing buildings and acquire land for affordable housing development will be able to execute a quick acquisition at terms that makes the project financially feasible via the fund's acquisition loan product.the fund provides loan products that are not available elsewhere in the market that can preserve the affordability of housing in an increasingly competitive market. First loss capital from metro enables the catalyst fund to take early-stage risks that other lenders cannot, accelerating the timeline for preservation and creation of affordable housing. In addition, the fund's bridge loan…
$245,598 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $245,598.
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Hal Cato
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Jim Gingrich
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE NASHVILLE CATALYST FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of THE NASHVILLE CATALYST FUND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE NASHVILLE CATALYST FUND holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 817 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 817 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like THE NASHVILLE CATALYST FUND
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
49% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE NASHVILLE CATALYST FUND?
- THE NASHVILLE CATALYST FUND (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $19,500,000 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($19,500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE NASHVILLE CATALYST FUND have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $19,500,000 in grants to THE NASHVILLE CATALYST FUND.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NASHVILLE CATALYST FUND?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $19,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NASHVILLE CATALYST FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing