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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TennGreen Land Conservancy | $10,000 |
| Episcopal Relief and Development | $2,500 |
| Salvation Army of Nashville | $2,000 |
| Salvation Army of St Louis | $2,000 |
| Nashville Rescue Mission | $2,000 |
| AFEDJ | $1,700 |
| St Louis Area Food Bank | $1,000 |
| Alive Hospice | $500 |
| Hillsdale College | $500 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank | $500 |
| Episcopal City Mission | $400 |
| St Lois Public Radio | $400 |
| Cumberland Trails Conference | $100 |
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 (FY20–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400 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
- TLTENNGREEN LAND CONSERVANCY4× · 2020–2024 · $28k · revenue +40%
- EREPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT4× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +54%
- NRNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION4× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- SASalvation Armyone grant, 2020 · $2k
- SASalvation Army St Louisone grant, 2020 · $2k
- OFOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INCone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +7%
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.
The mission of heartlands conservancy is to empower and colaborate with the people of southern illinois to advance and protect the health of our distinctive communities and nationally significant natural and cultural resources.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
This member-supported organization protects and restores iowa's land, water and wildlife for future generations. priorities include permanent land protection, promotion of improved land management and bringing new conservation…
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.
Greenways for nashville promotes, supports, and enhances a system of greenways and open space in nashville and davidson county.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
We are a community based organization dedicated to the preservation and protection of significant open spaces, natural resources, and our historic heritage.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The mission of friends is to partner with, promote and preserve georgia state parks & historic sites. statewide, friends works to raise awareness of the economic and intrinsic values of georgia's greatest treasures. we work with state and…
To sustain the vibrancy of nashville's centennial park, home to the historic parthenon, by supporting metro parks in revitalizing & activating this public green space to ensure the park remains a welcoming destination for recreation,…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Heritage Plantation Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 27 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 TENNGREEN LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN POLICY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds Mission Pre-Born Inc ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HARPETH CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND TRAILS CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE PLANTATION FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 Buckner Family Char Foundation Tr 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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