Funding Guidelines
The Frist Foundation makes a handful of grants each year at its own initiative, the most significant of which is to the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. Support for the Frist Center accounted for about two-thirds of our $7.5 million in grant distributions in 2011.
The Foundation also allocates more than $100,000 each year for the Frist Foundation Awards of Achievement, which are distributed through the Center for Nonprofit Management to organizations that best exemplify excellence in nonprofit management. In the most recent year, the Foundation allocated more than $300,000 to a Technology Grant Program to help organizations acquire software and equipment to achieve their missions more effectively and efficiently.
The Foundation provides annual support to several organizations that serve multiple nonprofit agencies in the Nashville area. These organizations, which we see as vital to supporting the infrastructure of Nashville's nonprofit community, include the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, the United Way of Metropolitan Nashville, the Center for Nonprofit Managment, Hands on Nashville, the Community Resource Center and the Young Leaders Council.
Other than these grants, The Frist Foundation's funding focuses on strengthening the capital, management and technological infrastructure of organizations with strong track records, particularly those serving the community's most vulnerable populations. In addition, the Foundation has a special interest in helping those organizations develop new streams of earned revenue.