Tennessee · Private foundation
The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $271k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 56
- Grants FY2025
- 61
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $104,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 104
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 56 | $271k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 61 | $245k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 65 | $238k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 58 | $232k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 47 | $198k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 64 | $289k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 104 | $305k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 81 | $228k | 15% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Jackson Foundation Fka Ladies' Hermitage Association | $401,200 | 6 | 2% |
| The Volunteer State Horsemen's Foundation | $233,742 | 4 | 3% |
| Harpeth Conservancy | $152,900 | 9 | 3% |
| Nashville Public Library Foundation | $73,150 | 9 | 1% |
| Friends of the Warner Parks Inc | $63,550 | 9 | 1% |
| Saddle Up | $43,550 | 9 | 2% |
| Florida Oceanographic Society Inc | $38,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Cumberland River Compact Inc | $35,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art | $33,975 | 9 | 0% |
| Southern Environmental Law Center | $31,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 101 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 82 recipients with no EIN on record ($731k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Frist Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc · Enchiridion Foundation · Ebs Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Blum Family Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation
How this is measured
About The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation
- How much does The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation give?
- The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $270,891 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 104 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Recreation & Sports (14%), Environment (13%).
- Who are The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Andrew Jackson Foundation Fka Ladies' Hermitage Association ($401k), The Volunteer State Horsemen's Foundation ($234k), Harpeth Conservancy ($153k).
- Does The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation 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 The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Memorial Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Hca Healthcare Foundation.
- Where is The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation based?
- The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation is based in TN.
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