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Hart Charitable Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$23k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
28
Grants FY2026
15
Organizations funded FY2025
93%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$600
Largest grant, FY2026
$2,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 15
FY2021 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
10
Total assets, FY2026
$191k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 93% of the organizations Hart Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 96% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterEducationArts & CultureOther
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
FY2026still arriving28$23k86%
FY202515$13k93%
FY20242$4k100%
FY20234$8k100%
FY20222$5k100%
FY20213$5kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$12kHealth$6kHousing & Shelter$5kReligion$3kEducation$3kEnvironment$2kHuman Services$2kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
PA
KY
AZ
TN
NC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Speech and Hearing Center$3,50020%
Columbia Theological Seminary$3,0002n/a
Presbyterian Church USA a Corp$2,1001n/a
Life Resource Services of Jackson County$2,00013%
University of Louisiana at Monroe Foundation$2,00010%
Mikeroweworks Foundation$2,0001n/a
Grace Rides Inc$2,00011%
Children With Hair Loss Inc$2,0001n/a
Habitat for Humanity of the River Valley$1,50010%
Hope House$1,20021%
Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of Hart Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Speech and Hearing Center$3,50020%
Columbia Theological Seminary$3,0002n/a
Presbyterian Church USA a Corp$2,1001n/a
Life Resource Services of Jackson County$2,00013%
University of Louisiana at Monroe Foundation$2,00010%
Mikeroweworks Foundation$2,0001n/a
Grace Rides Inc$2,00011%
Children With Hair Loss Inc$2,0001n/a
Habitat for Humanity of the River Valley$1,50010%
Hope House$1,20021%
Living Waters for the World$1,10010%
Eblen Charities Inc$1,1001n/a
United Way of Madison County Inc$1,00010%
Beloved Asheville$1,0001n/a
Signal Centers Inc$1,0001n/a
Upper Saranac Lake Foundation Inc$1,0001n/a
Mercy Care$1,00020%
Hamilton County Schools Tn Department of Education$7501n/a
Family Promise Inc$7501n/a
Room in the Inn Inc$7501n/a
The Orange Grove Center Inc$6001n/a
Chattanooga Rescue Mission$5521n/a
Chattanooga Autism Center Inc$5001n/a
Waldens Ridge Emergency Service Inc$5001n/a
Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc$5001n/a
Karis Community Health$5001n/a
Historic Saranac Lake$50010%
American Heart Association Inc$20010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($23k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hart Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Speech and Hearing Center: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLife Resource Services of Jackson County: $2,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetUniversity of Louisiana at Monroe Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrace Rides Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of the River Valley: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHope House: $1,200 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLiving Waters for the World: $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Madison County Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Care: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Saranac Lake: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $200 over 1y, 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 11.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN12× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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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How do I get to Hart Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Hart 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.

About Hart Charitable Trust

How much does Hart Charitable Trust give?
Hart Charitable Trust reported 28 grants totaling $23,352 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 15 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
What does Hart Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (34%), Health (18%), Housing & Shelter (13%).
Who are Hart Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: The Speech and Hearing Center ($4k), Columbia Theological Seminary ($3k), Presbyterian Church USA a Corp ($2k).
Does Hart Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 93% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hart Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hart Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Shell USA Company Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
Where is Hart Charitable Trust based?
Hart Charitable Trust 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 49 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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