Tennessee · Private foundation
American Paper & Twine Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $287k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 32
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $449k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations American Paper & Twine Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $272k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $121k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $157k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $203k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $73k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $115k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee Higher Education Initiative Inc | $120,000 | 6 | 2% |
| University School of Nashville | $90,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Abe's Garden | $81,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Belmont University | $80,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art | $49,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Nashville State Community College Foundation Inc | $48,300 | 4 | 1% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) | $42,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Andrew Jackson Foundation Fka Ladies' Hermitage Association | $32,350 | 5 | 0% |
| The Faison Center Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Dismas Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($186k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget American Paper & Twine Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Maria & Bernard a Pargh Family Foundation · The Jeffrey & Donna Eskind Family Foundation
How this is measured
Compare American Paper & Twine Charitable Trust with peer funders
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About American Paper & Twine Charitable Trust
- How much does American Paper & Twine Charitable Trust give?
- American Paper & Twine Charitable Trust reported 17 grants totaling $287,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does American Paper & Twine Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Arts & Culture (13%), Philanthropy (8%).
- Who are American Paper & Twine Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Tennessee Higher Education Initiative Inc ($120k), University School of Nashville ($90k), Abe's Garden ($81k).
- Does American Paper & Twine Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does American Paper & Twine Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as American Paper & Twine Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Memorial Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, The Frist Foundation.
- Where is American Paper & Twine Charitable Trust based?
- American Paper & Twine Charitable Trust is based in TN.
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