Tennessee · Private foundation
James W Carell Charitable Trust Co Cumberland Trust Company
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $275,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations James W Carell Charitable Trust Co Cumberland Trust Company funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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 | 27 | $1.0M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $333k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $305k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $353k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $306k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $301k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $244k | 16% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $224k | 39% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fed by Faith Dba by Faith Farm | $496,050 | 5 | 68% |
| Saint Bernard Academy | $165,860 | 6 | 0% |
| Change the Stars Inc | $161,500 | 8 | 15% |
| The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc | $122,135 | 8 | 0% |
| Nashville Rescue Mission | $114,360 | 6 | 0% |
| Amputee Blade Runners | $106,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Friends of the Warner Parks Inc | $79,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Center for Living and Learning Inc | $75,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Harpeth Conservancy | $70,000 | 3 | 2% |
| One Generation Away | $65,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
James W Carell Charitable Trust Co Cumberland Trust Company supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Joe C Davis Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Patricia and Rodes Hart Foundation · T & T Family Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Carolyn Smith Foundation
How this is measured
Compare James W Carell Charitable Trust Co Cumberland Trust Company with peer funders
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About James W Carell Charitable Trust Co Cumberland Trust Company
- How much does James W Carell Charitable Trust Co Cumberland Trust Company give?
- James W Carell Charitable Trust Co Cumberland Trust Company reported 28 grants totaling $1,059,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does James W Carell Charitable Trust Co Cumberland Trust Company fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (29%), Health (15%), Education (14%).
- Who are James W Carell Charitable Trust Co Cumberland Trust Company's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fed by Faith Dba by Faith Farm ($496k), Saint Bernard Academy ($166k), Change the Stars Inc ($162k).
- Does James W Carell Charitable Trust Co Cumberland Trust Company fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does James W Carell Charitable Trust Co Cumberland Trust Company accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as James W Carell Charitable Trust Co Cumberland Trust Company?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Hca Healthcare Foundation, The Frist Foundation.
- Where is James W Carell Charitable Trust Co Cumberland Trust Company based?
- James W Carell Charitable Trust Co Cumberland Trust Company is based in TN.
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