General Grant Recipients 2021

Moves and Grooves

$20,000

Consulting support for strategic planning. Paid: 12/1/2021

Nashville Zoo

$1,226,986.00

Additional support for the Zoo’s Grow Wild campaign, which includes the buildout of a major exhibit featuring the animals of Africa. Paid: 11/26/2021

Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition

$75,000

To match as much as $75,000 in donations from others toward completing TIRRC’s capital campaign. Paid: 11/1/2021

Frist Art Museum

$1,000,000

To support capital and maintenance needs in 2021. Paid: 10/26/2021

Frist Art Museum

$4,134,463

Operating support for 2021 (Because Frist Foundation corpus grew in 2020, 1.4 percent will be added to the $5,433,395 owed last year, reflecting inflation in 2020, in figuring the grant for 2021.) Paid: 10/26/2021

Nashville Zoo

$4,000,000

Continuing support for the “Grow Wild” capital campaign. Paid: 10/26/2021

Supreme Court of Tennessee

$5,000

General support through the Ansley Fund for the SCALES program educating children about the Tennessee justice system. Paid: 10/12/2021

Fannie Battle Day Home

$10,000

General support through the Ansley Fund for 2021. Paid: 10/12/2021

Nashville Rescue Mission

$1,000,000

Supplemental grant for capital campaign due to increase in construction costs. Paid: 10/1/2021

Belmont University

$2,300,000

Toward startup expenses of the Thomas F. Frist Jr. College of Medicine. Paid: 9/24/2021

Center for Nonprofit Management

$25,000

Strategic planning support and general operating for the Middle Tennessee Donors Forum. Paid: 9/6/2021

Edgehill Neighborhood Partnership

$16,000

Strategic planning support. Paid: 8/27/2021

Corner to Corner

$25,000

Support to establish the 37208 Fund. Paid: 8/27/2021

Civic Tennessee

$25,000

Matching funds to conduct COVID vaccine clinics and outreach in Middle Tennessee. Paid: 8/27/2021

Center for Nonprofit Management

$35,000

Support for Innovation Catalyst 2021. Paid: 8/27/2021

Westminster Home Connection

$16,000

Strategic planning support. Paid: 8/24/2021

Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee

$150,000

Initial staffing support and other expenses for the Nashville VOAD (Volunteer Organizations Assisting in Disaster). Paid: 7/22/2021

The Crossroads Campus

$100,000

Supplemental grant for the capital campaign due to increase in construction costs. Paid: 7/22/2021

Gordon Jewish Community Center

$100,000

Additional support toward capital needs that have grown by $500,000 percent since a $6 million capital campaign began in 2020. Paid: 7/22/2021

High Hopes, Inc.

$50,000

To help establish a Nashville satellite clinic for children and youth with special needs. Paid: 7/22/2021

Martha O'Bryan Center

$400,000

Additional support for campus expansion and improvements as part of the “So All Shall Rise” capital campaign. Paid: 7/29/2021

National Museum of African American Music

$200,000

Toward an unmet gap of $1 million in the final push to complete construction of the new museum. Paid: 7/22/2021

Operation Stand Down Tennessee

$150,000

Support for “Operation Commissary” to address veterans’ food insecurity through a partnership with Second Harvest Food Bank and Hands On Nashville. Paid: 7/22/2021

Justice for Our Neighbors

$25,000

Additional seed money for an immigration law clinic undertaken in partnership with Vanderbilt Law School. Paid: 7/14/2021

Fifty Forward

$5,000

Additional support for consulting and meeting facilitation with potential partners in Fifty Forward’s plans for community space in Bordeaux. Paid: 7/6/2021

Friends of Warner Parks

$750,000

Support for a $15 million capital campaign to restore and preserve Warner Parks. Paid: 7/1/2021

Fountain of Life Ministries

$5,000

Support for Bishop Campbell’s summer program. Paid: 7/6/2021

Frist Art Museum

$1,375,000

Operating support for 2021. Paid: 6/16/2021

Nashville Zoo

$2,300,210

Support for the “Grow Wild” capital campaign. Paid: 6/1/2021

Fifty Forward

$3,000

For consulting and meeting facilitation with potential partners in Fifty Forward’s plans for community space in North Nashville. Paid: 5/7/2021

Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation

$5,000

To support the charitable work embedded in the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce’s Partnership 2030 plan. Paid: 5/17/2021

Tennessee Justice Center

$250,000

Toward a $4.3 million campaign to buy and build out new offices near J.C. Napier Homes. Paid: 5/7/2021

Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee

$1,000,000

Toward construction of a new headquarters for the organization, projected to open in Spring 2022. Paid: 5/7/2021

Nashville Food Project

$15,000

To provide after-school meals for YMCA’s childcare program for the month of June. Paid: 5/6/2021

YMCA of Middle Tennessee

$10,000

Support for Camp Widjiwagan scholarships in the summer of 2021. Paid: 5/6/2021

Teach for America

$200,000

Support of $150,000 for TFA’s teacher education program for the fiscal year beginning June 1, 2021, plus $50,000 for a summer remediation program to address student learning loss during the pandemic. Paid: 4/22/2021

Community Resource Center

$12,000

Toward consulting expenses to help develop a new strategic plan. Paid: 4/22/2021

United Way of Greater Nashville

$225,000

Landlord Mitigation Fund in partnership with the Metro Homeless Impact Division. Paid: 4/22/2021

Ensworth School

$100,000

For a staff appreciation fund to recognize services performed throughout the pandemic. Paid: 4/22/2021

The Crossroads Campus

$200,000

Support for a campaign to build a new building in North Nashville. Paid: 4/22/2021

Men of Valor

$25,000

Toward the purchase of a 15-passenger van to transport the agency’s growing number of program participants to work sites in the Nashville area. Paid: 4/19/2021

MDHA Housing Trust Corp.

$25,000

COVID Vaccine Coordination for MDHA residents. Paid: 4/8/2021

Center for Nonprofit Management

$25,000

MatchGrant funding for 2021. Paid: 4/6/2021

Conexión Américas

$25,000

Toward a $100,000 effort over the next year to deliver vaccine education, as well as vaccines, to the Latinx community. Paid: 3/30/2021

Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition

$5,000

To help underwrite a strategic planning process taking place from May through November 2021. Paid: 3/29/2021

Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee

$21,000

Toward expenses involving the training of up to 500 agency participants for the annual Big Payback day of fundraising on May 5, 2021. Paid: 3/22/2021

The Sexual Assault Center

$10,000

Toward production of a book featuring photos of sexual assault survivors, as they want to be depicted. Paid: 3/17/2021

Nashville Civic Design Center

$25,000

Support for planning the rebuilding of Second Avenue. Paid: 2/12/2021

United Way of Greater Nashville

$50,000

General support for the 2020 campaign. One-half comes from the Ansley Fund. Paid: 1/21/2021

Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee

$115,000

To install hardware and software at 188 partner agencies to better track food distribution. Paid: 1/21/2021

NeedLink

$150,000

General support for 2021-22 at agency addressing emergency needs of struggling Nashvillians. Paid: 1/21/2021

Hands On Nashville

$125,000

To support operations, including GeekCause, in 2021, while also providing $25,000 to help with the Nashville VOAD group (Volunteer Organizations Active in Disasters). Paid: 1/21/2021

Community Resource Center

$50,000

General support for 2021. Paid: 1/21/2021

Center for Nonprofit Management

$240,000

General support of $225,000 for 2021 and $15,000 in administrative support of the Awards of Achievement. Paid: 1/21/2021

Gordon Jewish Community Center

$250,000

Toward a $6 million campaign to refurbish and expand the JCC’s 52-year-old building that serves as both a community center and a fitness facility. Paid: 1/21/2021

St. Luke's Community Center

$200,000

Support for the early learning center. Paid: 1/21/2021

Land Trust for Tennessee, Inc.

$210,000

Towards a master plan for Glen Leven Farm, which serves as both office space and environmental showcase for the organization. Paid: 1/21/2021

Gilda's Club Middle Tennessee

$70,000

Support for implementing telehealth into the cancer support program. Paid: 1/21/2021

Conexión Américas

$300,000

To free up operational funds at a challenging time by covering expanses of the Casa Azafrán building for one year. Paid: 1/25/2021

Adventure Science Center

$50,000

To underwrite The Tinkering Garage exhibit from April 1 to July 31, 2021, aimed at bringing families back to the center to undertake small building projects. Paid: 1/21/2021

Young Leaders Council

$15,000

General support for 2021. Paid: 1/5/2021

Tennessee State Museum Foundation

$2,500

General support for Tennessee Waltz in 2021. Paid: 1/5/2021

Southeastern Council of Foundations

$10,290

General support for 2021. Paid: 1/5/2021

Philanthropy Roundtable

$5,000

General support for 2021. Paid: 1/5/2021

National Center for Family Philanthropy

$2,000

General support for 2021. Paid: 1/5/2021

Council on Foundations

$20,000

General support for 2021. Paid: 1/5/2021

Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee

$25,000

Support for Giving Matters in 2021. Paid: 1/5/2021

Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee

$5,000

Support for Nashville’s Agenda for 2021. Paid: 1/5/2021

Leadership Nashville

$10,000

General support for 2021. Paid: 1/5/2021

Coach Approach, Inc.

$10,000

Support for work with nonprofit agencies to address employee self-care. Paid: 1/5/2021

Center for Nonprofit Management

$10,000

Support in 2021 for the Middle Tennessee Donors Forum. Paid: 1/5/2021

Hands On Nashville

$15,000

For extraordinary expenses in connection with the community response to the Christmas Day bombing in downtown Nashville. Paid: 1/4/2021

Grant Recipients by Year