Foundation Giving
The West End Home Foundation seeks to enrich the lives of older adults by investing in nonprofit organizations that address their unique needs. The programs that we support address a broad range of issues impacting people from all walks of life as they age. Our nonprofit agency partners transform our funds into meaningful outcomes that enhance lives and strengthen our communities.
Funding by Impact Area 2002-2025
The West End Home Foundation made its first grant in 2002. Since that time we have distributed $26,940,212.00 to seventy-eight different nonprofit agencies in Middle Tennessee. The chart to the left represents funding by impact area.
Grant Awards Distributed in 2025:
Advocacy Programs
Legal assistance and education for issues related to aging, and advocacy for new or expanded initiatives to ensure a comprehensive system of care for older adults
AgeWell Middle Tennessee
Funding will support AgeWell Middle Tennessee’s core services with emphasis placed on growth of AgeWell’s impact as a convener, catalyst & advocacy leader in addressing unmet needs of older adults and family caregivers. Core activities & initiatives include Advocacy and Thought Leadership, Directory of Services and Other Resource Guides, Community Helpline, Community Outreach & Education and Eldercare Coach.
Mid-Cumberland Human Resource Agency
The Ombudsman Advocating for Dignity and Quality Care Program protects the federally mandated rights of the residents of long-term care facilities to assure the highest level of care and quality of life.
Nashville Public Radio
WPLN will launch a new series on This is Nashville focused on aging, exploring topics that are relevant, beneficial, and engaging for older adults.
Nashville Public Television, Inc.
NPT Reports: Aging Matters informs Middle Tennessee about the major issues and concerns facing older adults, their families and caregivers.
Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services
The Senior Legal Helpline helps older persons age with dignity and security by making civil legal help more accessible. This project will protect and enhance the essential rights and benefits of older persons in Davidson and contiguous counties.
Tennessee Justice Center
Independence provides legal advocacy for applicants encountering enrollment barriers with TennCare CHOICES, Tennessee’s Medicaid LTSS program, SNAP, Medicare Savings Programs, use of coronavirus relief funds, educates the public and stakeholders about how to navigate the programs and advocates for system changes in the programs. Funding will also support the acquisition and renovation of a permanent office space.
Enrichment and Socialization Programs
Opportunities for meaningful social interaction and lifelong learning
FiftyForward
FiftyForward Bordeaux – Lifelong Learning Center provides education, wellness and enrichment programs for center members in the North Nashville community.
Friends of Mill Ridge Park
Friends of Mill Ridge Park will launch a focused initiative to better serve and engage older adults at Mill Ridge Park. Efforts will include increased outreach, the formation of an advisory board of older adults, and the recruitment of older adults as youth mentors and volunteer guides, fostering greater inclusivity and program impact.
Frist Art Museum
ArtLab: Creative Experiences for 55+ offers a series of hands-on art making workshops for older adults to engage audiences throughout the Nashville area. These workshops will provide older adults with opportunities to learn and refine artistic skills, build connections, and express their personal stories. The program aims to address the lack of hands-on arts initiatives for older adults while promoting wellness and positive aging.
Nashville Public Library Foundation
Nashville Public Library’s Digital Inclusion Program provides digital literacy inclusion for older adults in Davidson County. The program creates cognitive stimulation, eliminates isolation, reduces depression, builds bonds, creates easier access, provides access to critical health and government services, and encourages interested and able seniors to re-enter the workforce.
Nations Ministry Center
The Front Porch Program: Welcoming Refugee Elders provides classroom experiences, enrichment events and case management to refugee elders.
Senior Renaissance Center
SRC is committed to reducing isolation and improving the quality of life for older adults through engaging, structured activities. The Enriching the Lives of Older Adults initiative will expand current programming to include more frequent fitness classes, technology training, arts and crafts, and health and wellness workshops.
Food and Nutrition Programs
Services such as groceries, home-delivered and congregate meals to meet the nutritional needs of vulnerable older adults
Bethlehem Centers
The Bethlehem Senior Resource Center provides Meals on Wheels through partnerships with fourteen North Nashville churches and hosts the Active Seniors Circle to provide wellness and enrichment programs.
Heaven South
The Store nourishes communities and fosters hope by providing nutritious food and access to supportive services in a dignified and compassionate environment. This project aims to reduce food and nutrition insecurity among older adults in Middle Tennessee by expanding the quantity and variety of food offered, increasing operational days and strengthening partnerships with nonprofits that serve older adults.
Home Bound Meals Program
The Providing Meals to the Elderly program delivers hot, nutritious meals to vulnerable older adults in Hendersonville and the surrounding area. Volunteers place special emphasis on developing friendships and provide much needed interaction with socially isolated older adults.
Lebanon Senior Center
The Food Security for Aging Seniors Program provides nutritious meals for older adults in Wilson County. The Senior Center works diligently to provide affordable home delivered meals, congregate meals and convenient curb side pickup service to address food insecurity within this population.
Operation Stand Down Tennessee
OSDTN’s Senior Resource Veteran Assessment and Case Manager for Operation Commissary will work directly with older Veterans experiencing food insecurity. While the primary focus will be addressing food insecurity, the case management plan will also encompass financial assistance, benefits access, housing support and suicide prevention measures.
Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee and FiftyForward
The Older Adult Essential Nutrition Partnership provides food and other supportive services to older adults in underserved areas of Davidson County.
St. Luke’s Community House
St. Luke’s Senior Programs provides older adults with food security, hunger relief, enrichment, socialization and supportive care through mobile meals, food boxes, social club activities, community events, mental health support, volunteer opportunities and free tax preparation.
The Branch of Nashville
The Older Adult Care program identifies older adults in Southeast Nashville who need food assistance. The connection with these older adults opens the door to identifying other unmet needs and provides an opportunity to connect them with additional resources.
The Nashville Food Project
The Senior Community Meals Program provides made-from-scratch, high quality meals to vulnerable older adults through collaborations with more than 10 nonprofit and community partners.
Healthcare Programs
Primary health care including diagnosis and treatment of chronic and critical conditions, oral health care and behavioral health services
Black Mental Health Village
The Elder Mental Health Program addresses the urgent mental health needs of older Black and minoritized adults in Nashville. The program offers health screenings, case management, therapy services and opportunities for social connection. This program seeks to reduce mental health disparities and foster a supportive environment where older adults can thrive, advancing BMHV’s vision of collective liberation and improved well-being for Black communities.
HEAR Nashville
Hearing Aids for Seniors provides financial and professional assistance for hearing aids to low income older adults in the greater Nashville area. The program also provides community education about hearing loss and its effects on quality of life.
Insight Counseling Centers
The Older Adult Care Program provides quality mental health services to older adults on an income-based sliding fee scale.
Interfaith Dental Clinic of Nashville
Smiles for Life provides high quality complete dental care, emergency dental care and oral hygiene education to low income older adults.
Housing Programs
Home repair and safety modifications, rent and utility assistance and access to appropriate housing solutions to facilitate safe and affordable housing
Inspiritus, Inc
Inspiritus’ Live, Thrive, Give: Comprehensive Funding Campaign will raise capital to help transform the current headquarters into an innovative, integrated campus with affordable senior housing, programming, and essential community support tailored to North Nashville all under one roof.
NeedLink Nashville
The Crisis Financial Support for Seniors to Prevent Eviction and Homelessness program provides financial assistance for rent, utilities or move-in costs for older adults age 60 and over who are at or below 200% of poverty level.
Open Table Nashville
Housing Navigation for Older Adults provides street outreach that addresses the unique needs of older adults. The program connects individuals experiencing homelessness to resources, supportive services and permanent housing. Grant funds will help cover additional direct costs for older clients, including birth certificates, IDs, housing application fees, security deposits, NES deposits and Welcome Home Kits with essentials like bedding, cookware and mobility aids.
Rebuilding Together-Nashville:
Rebuilding Together-Nashville’s Express Repairs program will allow RTN to serve more homeowners faster and more efficiently by using a contracted handyman to service needs such as falls prevention, home maintenance (small plumbing or electrical issues, functioning smoke detectors and fire extinguishers), energy upgrades, and appliance replacement.
The Community Helpers of Rutherford County
The Elderly & Disabled Assistance Program provides emergency financial assistance (rent and utilities), prescription drug assistance, coordination of services and referrals to other local community agencies in Rutherford County.
Westminster Home Connection
Westminster Home Connection provides critical repairs, mobility modifications, and sort-pack-move services to empower older adults to age in place safely and with dignity.
Transportation Programs
Safe and affordable transportation to ensure that older adults have access to needed services and have opportunities to remain engaged in community life
Community Life Bridge
Community Life Ride uses volunteer drivers to provide door-through-door transportation to older adults who no longer drive in order to support their independence and quality of life. Volunteers develop friendships and provide much needed interaction with socially isolated older adults.
Senior Ride Nashville, Inc.
Senior Ride Nashville provides courteous and safe door-through-door volunteer transportation along with guidance on mobility options allowing older adults to maintain health and quality of life. The program also facilitates meaningful relationships between volunteer drivers and riders.
Senior Ride Wilson, dba Wilson Rides
Wilson Rides provides safe, affordable, reliable and accessible transportation to older residents in Wilson County. The program helps make the community more livable by providing rides to local destinations in Wilson County.
Wellness and Supportive Care Programs
Prevention, wellness and in-home supportive services to promote and sustain healthy aging
Catholic Charities of Tennessee, Inc.
The Living at Home program provides home-based supportive services to help keep older adults living safely in their homes and communities.
Community Resource Center
Through the Older Adult Support Program, the CRC partners with several nonprofit organizations that serve our aging neighbors to provide essential hygiene and household cleaning products at no cost. All participating older adults within this program receive pre-packaged CRC Support kits on a consistent basis, that contain a carefully curated selection of products that our older neighbors need to maintain hygiene, good health and human dignity.
FiftyForward
FiftyForward Supportive Care Services provides care management, FiftyForward Fresh home-delivered meals, Adult Day Care and other supportive services to enable vulnerable older adults to remain in their homes.
Mental Health America of the Mid-South
The Caregiver Support Program provides resources and support to those caring for older adults with Alzheimer’s and dementia. Individualized services for caregivers address the practical and emotional needs of caring for someone in all stages of the Alzheimer’s disease process. Services include free care consultations, presentations on healthy aging and Alzheimer’s disease, training for healthcare professionals and law enforcement and support groups referrals.
Mindful Care Adult Day Service
The Mindful Care program offers opportunities to persons age 55+ with Alzheimer’s and other cognitive impairments to engage in a daytime program of meaningful social and therapeutic activities in a supportive non-institutionalized setting. The program aids in quality of life, promotes health, happiness and inclusion in a group of peers through music therapy and other enrichment activities. The program also offers caregivers the ability to work and an opportunity for respite.
Music For Seniors
Live Music Outreach for Socially Isolated Groups provides music programs to lower income older adults in nonprofit recreational and care settings.
Room In The Inn, Inc.
RITI’s Supportive Services for Older Adults provides Resource Navigation to equip individuals experiencing homelessness with the necessary tools and life skills to obtain and maintain housing and income.
Tennessee Caregivers Coalition
Funding is targeted to two projects: the Respite Voucher Program provides respite vouchers to caregivers who are at least 60 years old and caregivers of individuals who are at least 60 years old in the seven Middle Tennessee counties; the Sumner Senior Volunteer Program matches volunteers who are at least 60 years old to families who are in a caregiving situation. The caregiver provides assistance and companionship to the older adult who needs care.
Special Projects
Other initiatives that complement and enhance the mission of The West End Home Foundation
Bordeaux Collaborative Capital Campaign
The Bordeaux Collaborative will be an innovative, intergenerational resource hub for North Nashville’s Bordeaux community. FiftyForward Bordeaux Senior Center and Creative Girls Rock will serve as the anchor institutions in the new building. Additionally, there will be flexible space for state and local supportive services as well as other nonprofits. This collaborative will help meet emerging community needs by encouraging partnerships and increasing access to programming and essential resources in North Nashville. Construction on the 9,000 square foot center is planned for Spring 2024.
Funding History:
Abe’s Garden
Alive Hospice
Alzheimer’s Association
Arc of Davidson County & Greater Nashville
Cedar Seniors, Inc.
Centerstone of Tennessee, Inc.
Cumberland University
Disciples Village of Nashville
Domestic Violence Program, Inc.
Easter Seals Tennessee
Faith Family Medical Center
Family & Children’s Services
Friends In General, Inc.
Gilda’s Club Nashville
GraceWorks Ministries, Inc.
Greater Nashville Regional Council
Guardianship and Trusts Corporation
Jewish Family Services of Nashville and Middle Tennessee
Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands
Light In The Nations
Martha O’Bryan Center, Inc.
Matthew 25, Inc.
Matthew Walker Comprehensive Health Center, Inc.
MDHA Housing Trust Corporation
Metropolitan Nashville Teachers’ Apartments, Inc.
Nashville Organized for Action and Hope (NOAH)
Progress, Inc.
Rochelle Center
Rooftop Foundation
Shepherd’s Center of Madison
Siloam Health
Tennessee Kidney Foundation
UCP of Middle Tennessee, Inc.
Urban Housing Solutions
Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
You Have The Power Know How To Use It
YWCA of Nashville & Middle Tennessee
