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Buckner Family Char Foundation Tr

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$24k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 20
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$435k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Buckner Family Char Foundation Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Human ServicesCivil RightsArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving12$23k8%
FY20231$4000%
FY202220$19k20%
FY202115$22k33%
FY202016$20kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$28kReligion$17kHuman Services$17kHousing & Shelter$8kFood & Nutrition$7kEducation$4kPublic Benefit$3kArts & Culture$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
IN
OH
CT
MO
TN
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Tenngreen Land Conservancy$27,50041%
Episcopal Relief and Development$10,00040%
Nashville Rescue Mission$8,00040%
St Louis Area Food Bank Inc$5,10040%
The Heritage Foundation$2,50030%
Episcopal City Mission$1,6004n/a
Operation Food Search Inc$1,00010%
Alive Hospice Inc$90030%
The American Policy Roundtable$40020%
Friends of Radnor Lake$35030%
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All grantees of Buckner Family Char Foundation Tr by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Tenngreen Land Conservancy$27,50041%
Episcopal Relief and Development$10,00040%
Nashville Rescue Mission$8,00040%
St Louis Area Food Bank Inc$5,10040%
The Heritage Foundation$2,50030%
Episcopal City Mission$1,6004n/a
Operation Food Search Inc$1,00010%
Alive Hospice Inc$90030%
The American Policy Roundtable$40020%
Friends of Radnor Lake$35030%
Friends of the Warner Parks Inc$35030%
Mission Pre-Born Inc$30010%
Heritage Foundation of Williamson County$30020%
Heritage Plantation Foundation$2001n/a
Cumberland Trails Conference$20020%
Harpeth Conservancy$20020%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($26k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Buckner Family Char Foundation Tr supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTenngreen Land Conservancy: $27,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetEpiscopal Relief and Development: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNashville Rescue Mission: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSt Louis Area Food Bank Inc: $5,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Food Search Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlive Hospice Inc: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Policy Roundtable: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Radnor Lake: $350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Warner Parks Inc: $350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMission Pre-Born Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeritage Foundation of Williamson County: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCumberland Trails Conference: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHarpeth Conservancy: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist FoundationTN15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Henry Laird Smith Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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Find your warmest path to Buckner Family Char Foundation Tr 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.

About Buckner Family Char Foundation Tr

How much does Buckner Family Char Foundation Tr give?
Buckner Family Char Foundation Tr reported 13 grants totaling $23,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Buckner Family Char Foundation Tr fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (32%), Religion (19%), Human Services (19%).
Who are Buckner Family Char Foundation Tr's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Tenngreen Land Conservancy ($28k), Episcopal Relief and Development ($10k), Nashville Rescue Mission ($8k).
Does Buckner Family Char Foundation Tr fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Buckner Family Char Foundation Tr 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 Buckner Family Char Foundation Tr?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation, Henry Laird Smith Foundation, The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation.
Where is Buckner Family Char Foundation Tr based?
Buckner Family Char Foundation Tr is based in TN.

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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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