Tennessee · Private foundation
John Dustin Buckman Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $349,020
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $21M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations John Dustin Buckman Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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 | 19 | $1.4M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $1.3M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $1.3M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $1.4M | 25% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $1.4M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $1.3M | 40% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $1.3M | 20% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $1.3M | 30% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emmanuel Center Inc | $600,000 | 9 | 14% |
| Dixon Gallery and Gardens | $504,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Life Choices of Memphis Inc | $310,090 | 7 | 4% |
| Binghampton Christian Academy Inc | $297,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Memphis Child Advocacy Center | $220,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Service Over Self Inc | $170,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Memphis Teacher Residency Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Memphis Museums of Science & History | $127,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Mid-South Food Bank | $125,800 | 5 | 0% |
| Man Rise Foundation | $105,000 | 3 | 75% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
John Dustin Buckman Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · The Urban Child Institute · United Way of the Mid South · The Day Foundation · Plough Foundation · Slingshot Memphis Inc · Crews Family Foundation · Thomas Garrott Foundation · Children's Foundation of Memphis
How this is measured
Compare John Dustin Buckman Charitable Trust with peer funders
About John Dustin Buckman Charitable Trust
- How much does John Dustin Buckman Charitable Trust give?
- John Dustin Buckman Charitable Trust reported 19 grants totaling $1,398,040 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does John Dustin Buckman Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (54%), Education (15%), Youth Development (11%).
- Who are John Dustin Buckman Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Emmanuel Center Inc ($600k), Dixon Gallery and Gardens ($505k), Life Choices of Memphis Inc ($310k).
- Does John Dustin Buckman Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John Dustin Buckman Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John Dustin Buckman Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation of Memphis, Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation.
- Where is John Dustin Buckman Charitable Trust based?
- John Dustin Buckman Charitable Trust is based in TN.
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