General Grant Recipients 2018

Jan.1 through December 31, 2018. Most recent grants are listed first.

Cumberland Heights Foundation

$250,000

Challenge grant to match gifts directed by family members for a new adolescent treatment center. Paid 12/6/18.

Faith Family Medical Center

$1,000,000

Support for a $6 million capital campaign to build a larger facility. Paid 12/6/18.

Martha O'Bryan Center

$600,000

Support for a $15 million campaign to build a new family center. Paid 12/6/18.

Nashville Diaper Connection

$12,000

Support to move offices and build out additional storage space for this agency that partners with dozens of other nonprofits to provide diapers to clients. Paid 12/6/18.

Nashville Public Radio

$25,000

General support for a $4.5 million capital campaign. Paid 11/26/18.

18th Avenue Family Enrichment Center

$5,000

Support for a new roof that is leaking in two classrooms. Paid 11/8/18.

Fannie Battle Day Home

$10,000

General support from the Ansley Fund for 2018. Paid 10/30/18.

St. Luke's Community House

$2,500

Support for the planning process to implement goals and strategies for Nashville Promise Zones. Paid 10/30/18.

Center for Nonprofit Management

$32,500

Support for the Innovation Catalyst, a program to help nonprofits develop mission-driven initatives that are financially sustainable. Paid 10/25/18.

Greenways for Nashville

$150,000

Support for an engineering study of a Rails and Trails project in North Nashville and to explore a capital campaign to build out Nashville’s greenway system. Paid 10/25/18.

Salvation Army

$150,000

Additional support for the capital campaign including renovations on the headquarters building and initial improvements to the Magnes Potter community center. Paid 10/25/18.

Frist Art Museum

$1,303,000

Operating support for 2018. Paid 10/16/18.

Supreme Court of Tennessee

$5,000

General operating support for the SCALES program to educate high school students about the judicial system. Paid 10/4/18.

Temple Congregation Ohabai Sholom

$5,000

To train volunteers from multiple congregations to serve as mentors to Nashville immigrants and refugees to help them develop and grow their professional skills. Paid 9/14/18.

Justice for Our Neighbors

$4,500

Support for capital improvements allowing additional space for attorney/client meetings for this immigrant support organization. Paid 8/23/18.

Mary Parrish Center

$25,000

Support for capital improvements to administrative offices and transitional housing for victims of trauma. Paid 8/23/18.

Pet Community Center

$25,000

Support for a $250,000 capital campaign to relocate this provider of low-cost veterinary services. Paid 8/9/18.

AGAPE

$13,000

Support from the Ansley Fund to facilitate the merger of Morning Star Sanctuary, a 16-bed domestic violence shelter in Madison, into AGAPE, a counseling and adoption agency. Paid 7/31/18.

Hands On Nashville

$110,000

Support to establish a new program matching skilled technology volunteers with IT projects at Nashville nonprofit agencies. Paid 7/31/18.

Nashville Food Project

$500,000

Additional support from the Ansley Fund for Nashville Food Project’s capital campaign. Paid 7/31/18.

Progress, Inc.

$100,000

Additional support for a capital campaign that has expanded from $1 million to $1.3 million due to construction cost increases. Paid 7/31/18.

Operation Stand Down Tennessee

$250,000

Additional support for a $3.5 million capital campaign to renovate offices and client space. Paid 7/31/18.

Open Table Nashville,

$250,000

Capital support for the construction of a commercial kitchen, community room and tiny village for the medically vulnerable homeless after discharge from area hospitals. Paid 7/31/18.

Faith Family Medical Center

$1,000,000

Support for a $6 million capital campaign to build a larger facility. Paid 7/31/18.

Adventure Science Center

$1,000,00

Support for a new sounds and music exhibit scheduled to open in June 2019. Paid 7/31/18.

Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter

$25,000

Support to access federal matching dollars for the expansion of Nashville’s Coordinated Entry System. Paid 7/19/18.

YMCA of Middle Tennessee

$10,000

Support from the Ansley Fund for Camp Widjiwagan scholarships. Paid 7/19/18.

Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition

$15,000

Support for a strategic messaging project, a national effort led by the Four Freedoms Fund. Paid 7/19/18.

Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee

$10,000

Support for the “Growing the Circle Fund”, designed to encourage philanthropy. Paid 7/12/18.

Frist Art Museum

$1,303,000

Operating support for 2018. Paid 7/16/18.

YWCA of Nashville/Middle TN

$12,500

Support to send a team to three domestic violence shelters nationwide to learn how best to expand the Nashville shelter. Paid 7/12/18.

Native American Indian Association

$25,000

Capital support for the Circle of Life Native American Indian Center, to be located in the Cane Ridge community. Paid 7/12/18.

Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation

$5,000

Support for the Chamber’s Partnership 2020 economic and community development effort. Paid 7/5/18.

Center for Nonprofit Management

$150,000

Support for a multi-faceted effort to advance Collective Impact in the Nashville Community. Paid 7/5/18.

Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee

$10,000

Support for the “Middle Tennessee Donors Forum Fund,” designed to advance thoughtful local philanthropy through collegial interaction, programming and professional development. Paid 6/28/18.

Frist Art Museum

$500,000

Support for capital expenses in 2018. Paid 6/28/18.

Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee

$250,000

Support from the Ansley Fund for a $20 million capital campaign to expand capacity at the MetroCenter Warehouse and to establish distribution centers in Murfreesboro and Camden. Paid 6/14/18.

Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation

$5,000

Support for the charitable aspect of Partnership 2020 economic and community development effort. Paid 6/5/18.

Teach for America

$500,000

Support for the fiscal year, beginning June 1, 2018. Paid 5/8/18.

Family & Children's Service

$500,000

Additional support from the Ansley Fund toward a capital campaign to build new offices. Paid 4/25/18.

Grace M. Eaton Day Home

$100,000

Support from the Ansley fund to help defray the costs to relocate the childcare center. Paid 4/25/18.

Nashville Children's Alliance

$72,000

Support from the Ansley fund for capital expenses to upgrade and expand equipment in connection with move to a multi-agency Family Safety Center in late 2018. Paid 4/25/18.

Nashville Public Library Foundation

$72,000

For direct expenses associated with the merging of Friends of the Libary into the Nashville Public Library Foundation. Paid 4/25/18.

Workers' Dignity Project

$5,000

Support for an organizational consultation due to rapid growth. Paid 4/19/18.

Cheekwood

$1,000,000

To refurbish the Frist Learning Center, to add a cafe and build an endowment for future maintenance needs. Paid 4/19/18.

Frist Art Museum

$1,303,000

Operating support for 2018. Paid 4/16/18.

Tennessee State Museum Foundation

$400,000

Toward a $160 million effort to build a new museum on the Bicentennial Mall. Paid 3/15/18.

Cheekwood

$1,500,000

To refurbish the Frist Learning Center, add a cafe, and establish a fund for further maintenance needs. Paid 2/22/18.

The Sycamore Institute

$25,000

General support for this non-partisan organization that produces research involving Tennessee public policy. Paid 2/22/18.

Nashville Civic Design Center

$15,000

To develop a new strategic plan for this rapidly growing agency. Paid 2/15/18.

Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee

$20,000

Training and promotional expenses involving the 2018 Big Payback fundraising event for nonprofit agencies. Paid 2/2/18.

The Frist Art Museum

$500,000

Support for capital projects planned in 2018. Paid 1/22/18.

Nashville Tools for Schools

$9,000

Support for building out a new space donated to the organization by MNPS. Paid 1/22/18.

Nations Ministry

$100,000

To buy and renovate a building in the Nolensville Road corridor to serve as a permanent home for this agency that serves refugees. Paid 1/18/18.

Cumberland Heights Foundation

$250,000

Support through the Ansley Fund to establish a 30-bed treatment facility in Kingston Springs for adolescent boys. Paid 1/22/18.

Young Leaders Council,

$10,000

General support for 2018. Paid 1/18/18.

United Way of Metropolitan Nashville

$50,000

Support for the United Way Campaign, with half coming from the Ansley Fund and the balance from The Frist Foundation. Paid 1/18/18.

St. Luke's Community House

$150,000

For facility upgrades and revenue-generating investments at this multi-agency hub for service delivery in West Nashville. Paid 1/18/18.

NeedLink Nashville

$50,000

General support for 2018. Paid 1/18/18.

Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands

$175,000

To relocate from downtown to larger space near the airport, a move aimed at saving $400,000 in rent over the next seven years. Paid 1/18/18.

Interfaith Dental Clinic

$500,00

Toward a $3.3 million campaign to relocate the clinic to the old Aladdin Industries complex to handle a growing patient load. Paid 1/18/18.

Hands On Nashville

$75,000

General support for 2018. Paid 1/18/18.

Community Resource Center

$35,000

General support for 2018. Paid 1/18/18.

Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee

$20,000

Support for GivingMatters in 2018. Paid 1/18/18.

Tennessee State Museum Foundation

$2,500

General support for 2018. Paid 1/11/18.

Southeastern Council of Foundation

$10,000

General support for 2018. Paid 1/11/18.

Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee

$5,000

Support for Nashville’s Agenda in 2018. Paid 1/11/18.

Leadership Nashville Foundation

$10,000

General support for 2018. Paid 1/11/18.

National Center for Family Philanthropy

$2,000

General support for 2018. Paid 1/11/18

Philanthropy Roundtable

$5,000

General support for national efforts to strengthen philanthropy. Paid 1/11/18.

Grant Recipients by Year