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Community impact

The West End Home Foundation invests in nonprofits that enrich the lives of older adults, turning support into meaningful outcomes that strengthen communities for all.

2025 Funding by Impact Area

In 2025, the Foundation distributed $1,943,332.00 to forty-one different nonprofit agencies in Middle Tennessee. The nonprofit agencies and projects receiving funding are detailed below.

Grant Awards Distributed in 2025

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 launched a new series entitled Next Age on This is Nashville focused on aging, exploring topics that are relevant, beneficial, and engaging for older adults.

Nashville PBS

Nashville PBS 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.

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.

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.

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.

Renaissance Center

The Renaissance Center 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.

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, 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.

Black Mental Health Village

Black Mental Health Village and Nana’s Circle support older adults raising children under eighteen through case management, trauma-informed mental health support, peer connection, and education. Healing circles, therapy sessions, and training workshops reduce isolation, ease caregiver stress, and build resilience. Nana’s Circle programming nurtures intergenerational healing and empowers families to grow stronger across generations.

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

Smiles for Life provides high quality complete dental care, emergency dental care and oral hygiene education to low income older adults.

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 unhoused older adults. The program connects homeless individuals 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.

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.

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.

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.

Catholic Charities, Diocese of Nashville

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 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 serve older adults who are in need of assistance with care management, food security, adult day services and conservatorship services. The older adults participating in the Supportive Care continuum face aging-related challenges and barriers including limited financial and supportive resources, functional limitations, and isolation.

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

The Transformative Live Music Program provides fully subsidized music programs for Sunny Day Clubs and under-resourced memory care communities. Memory care programming not only benefits the older adult, but also provides respite for caregivers, and special shared moments of joy.

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 Caregiver 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.

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. The new center, Forward Creative Commons, will open in early 2026.

SeniorTrust: Empowering Older Tennesseans

The SeniorTrust Grant Program transformed the system of care for older Tennesseans. In 2014, the Tennessee Attorney General recovered $40.1 million from the dissolution of two nonprofit nursing homes in Murfreesboro, TN (State of Tennessee vs. SeniorTrust of Florida, Inc. Case No. 11-1548-III and State of Tennessee vs. ElderTrust of Florida, Inc. Case No. 12-1283-IV (III)). The funds were under the auspices of the Chancery Court of Davidson County, with Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle presiding. In late 2016, Chancellor Lyle ruled that the “funds shall be used to sustain and improve the quality of life for the elderly of Tennessee”. The $40 million windfall resulted in grants totaling nearly $45 million that were distributed over a five and a half year period. The innovative design of the grant program created a statewide network of public and private organizations with significantly expanded services across identified areas of need: affordable housing, oral health, legal services, transportation and digital literacy. Most of the programs continue to operate today due to successful sustainability efforts.

Key initiatives

Aging in Place

$14 million for home modifications, enabling older Tennesseans to live independently

Smile On 60+

$12.5 million to provide oral healthcare to low-income older adults

Tennessee Senior Law Alliance

$5.5 million for civil legal assistance

MyRide TN

$3.6 million to expand volunteer transportation programs

Digital Literacy

$3.8 million to bridge the digital divide, increasing access to essential services

Aging Matters

$200,000 to produce documentaries raising awareness about aging-related issues