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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 FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$487kArts & Culture$128kPhilanthropy$80kHealth$64kHousing & Shelter$61kHuman Services$59kReligion$46kCrime & Legal$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $187k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$12,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$449k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE$75,000
BELMONT UNIVERSITY$40,000
TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS COUNCIL$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
TENNESSEE HIGHER EDUCATION INITIATIVE$25,000
NASHVILLE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$24,000
ABE'S GARDEN$20,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF NASHVILLE$15,000
VANDERBILT HILLEL$12,500
CHEEKWOOD ESTATE & GARDENS$9,000
ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION$5,000
NASHVILLE ZOO AT GRASSMERE$2,500
CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS$2,500
GORDAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$2,000
AKIVA SCHOOL$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $250 → 9%THE REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING: $4k → 4%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $250 → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $250 → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $250 → 9%GORDAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 14%GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 14%GORDAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 14%GORDAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 14%GORDAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICE: $500 → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $13k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $13k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $13k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $3k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE INC: $2k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE INC: $2k → 14%THE MARY PARRISH CENTER: $300 → 14%THE MARY PARRISH CENTER: $300 → 14%THE MARY PARRISH CENTER: $300 → 14%THE MARY PARRISH CENTER: $300 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
RI
CA
MO
VA
TN
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$905k · 35 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
12

Total granted

$905k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+7%

Still filing today

71%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TH
    TENNESSEE HIGHER EDUCATION INITIATIVE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +269%
  • US
    UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +24%
  • AG
    ABE'S GARDEN
    6× · 2020–2025 · $81k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • AC
    AMERICAN CIVILIZATION FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +500%
  • SJ
    ST JOHNS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • TR
    THE REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING INC
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue -3%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation

The nashville chamber public benefit foundation supports the work of the nashville area chamber of commerce through efforts to improve the quality of education, encourage public and private efforts around education, and to facilitate the…

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3
Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce

The nashville area chamber of commerce facilitates community leadership to create economic prosperity.

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4
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
Tennessee State Collaborative On Reforming Education

The mission of the state collaborative on reforming education (score) is to catalyze transformative change in tennessee education so that all students can achieve success. score is an independent, nonprofit, and nonpartisan institution,…

Education
7
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
8
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
9
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
10
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
11
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
12
Texas Christian University

Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centennial Park Conservancy; the most unlike its peers is American Civilization Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
29/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $260,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIATENNESSEE HIGHER EDUCATION INITIATIVE INC: $120,000 · EducationTENNESSEE HIGHER EDUCATION INITIATIVE INCUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE: $90,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLEBelmont University: $80,000 · EducationBelmont UniversityTHE FAISON CENTER INC: $25,000 · Education+3 more: $21,000 · EducationTENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS COUNCIL: $57,500 · OtherTENNESSEE PERFORMING AR…THE TEMPLE: $33,500 · OtherTHE TEMPLEIndividual grant recipient: $27,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipi…VANDERBILT HILLEL: $25,000 · OtherVANDERBILT HILLELDISMAS INC: $25,000 · OtherDISMAS INCLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · OtherLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITYST JOHNS SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherADVENTURE SCIENCE CENTER: $9,000 · OtherTENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC: $16,000 · OtherTENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDE…NASHVILLE ZOO INC: $13,500 · Other+12 more: $35,550 · Other+12 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $89,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDER…NASHVILLE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $48,300 · PhilanthropyNASHVILLE ST…UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $6,000 · PhilanthropyCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $49,000 · Arts & CultureCHEEKWOOD …ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION: $32,350 · Arts & CultureANDREW JAC…Nashville Symphony Association: $18,000 · Arts & CultureNashville …AMERICAN CIVILIZATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN C…CENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $7,000 · Arts & CultureCENTENNIAL…ABE'S GARDEN: $81,000 · Housing & ShelterYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273): $42,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NASHVILLE: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesALIVE HOSPICE INC: $3,000 · Human Services+3 more: $2,700 · Human ServicesVanderbilt University Medical Center: $21,000 · HealthGILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $2,000 · HealthSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $1,500 · Health+1 more: $300 · Health
Education$596,000Other$267,550Philanthropy$143,300Arts & Culture$116,350Housing & Shelter$81,000Human Services$61,200Health$24,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $260,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE HIGHER EDUCATION INITIATIVE INC: $120,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE: $90,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $89,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetABE'S GARDEN: $81,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBelmont University: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $49,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $48,300 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273): $42,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION: $32,350 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FAISON CENTER INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDISMAS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNashville Symphony Association: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPENCIL FOUNDATION: $16,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NASHVILLE: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVILIZATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAKIVA SCHOOL: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REFUGE CENTER FOR COUNSELING INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALIVE HOSPICE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR PEACE AND TOLERANCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARY PARRISH CENTER: $1,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Memorial Foundation I…The Community Foundat…The Frist FoundationThe Steven & Laurie E…United Way of Middle …Hca Healthcare Founda…Joe C Davis FoundationThe Annette & Irwin E…The Blum Family Found…Dorothy Cate and Thom…Maria & Bernard a Par…The Jeffrey & Donna E…
Memorial Foundation IncTN36.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Paper & Twine Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Paper & Twine Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to American Paper & Twine Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to American Paper & Twine Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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