· Private foundation
Blair J Wilson Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $220k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $300k
- $250k+1 grant · $450k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHEEKWOOD | $450,000 |
| KIPP ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| NASHVILLE CLASSICAL | $50,000 |
| LEAD ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $50,000 |
| ROCKETSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS | $20,000 |
| TENNESSEE NATURE ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| SMITHSON CRAIGHEAD ACADEMY | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
34 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CBCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART7× · 2019–2025 · $875k · revenue +79%
- MBMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE3× · 2022–2024 · $448k · revenue +26%
- NCNASHVILLE CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL7× · 2018–2025 · $260k · revenue +206%
Funded once
- TCTENNESSEE CHARTER SCHOOL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2018 · $10k
- FOFRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +623%
- AGABE'S GARDENgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +77%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…
The new american academy charter school empowers learners and inspires leaders to make this a better world. through our collaborative teacher teams, mastery-based career ladder, and looping cycles, we offer personalized rigorous…
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
Lake norman charter school prepares students to be community leaders demonstrating personal integrity with a life-long desire to learn, lead and serve.
The episcopal school of nashville, a diverse urban independent school, is dedicated to nurturing the joy of learning and the spirit of discovery in each of its students.
King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.
Compass charter school is a safe and nurturing educational environment that honors the individuality of each learner. by engaging in a process of inquiry, our graduates will be equipped with the necessary skills to lead fulfilling personal…
Lead public schools exists to prepare all our students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in college and in life.
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
The mission of ivy academy is to provide a quality program with an emphasis on scholarship, environmental stewardship, and volunteerism for all students, designed to prepare them to positively influence society and nature.
To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Intrepid College Preparatory School and the most unlike its peers is Nashville Classical Charter School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds INTREPID COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds REPUBLIC SCHOOLS NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds STRIVE COLLEGIATE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds STEM PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AVENTURA COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Tennessee Nature Academy ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE ↗
- Who funds THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds ABE'S GARDEN ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · The Roros Foundation · Tua the Anne Potter Wilson Fdn · Scarlett Family Foundation · Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc · City Fund · 50can Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Blair J Wilson Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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