· Private foundation
Blair J Wilson Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| LEAD ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| NASHVILLE CLASSICAL | $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 |
| TENNESSEE NATURE ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS | $20,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| AVENTURA COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CBCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART7× · 2019–2025 · $875k · revenue +152%
- 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%
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 41 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Blair J Wilson Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blair J Wilson Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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