· Private foundation
John Dustin Buckman Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k10 grants · $255k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $445k
- $250k+2 grants · $698k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPL | $349,020 |
| LE BONHEUR CHILDRENS MEDICAL CTR | $349,020 |
| SAINT PAUL CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS | $75,000 |
| THE DENNIS PRICE JR FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| ST AGNES ACADEMY | $55,000 |
| CHRISTIAN BROTHERS HIGH SCHOOL | $55,000 |
| EMMANUEL CENTER INC | $50,000 |
| MEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST | $40,000 |
| MEMPHIS URBAN YOUNG LIFE | $40,000 |
| SERVICE OVER SELF | $35,000 |
| MEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $35,000 |
| ROOM IN THE INN-MEMPHIS | $25,000 |
| BINGHAMPTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $523k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 96% 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.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- ECEMMANUEL CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $600k · revenue +52%
- DGDixon Gallery and Gardens9× · 2017–2025 · $505k · revenue +34%
- LCLife Choices of Memphis Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $310k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- BMBAPTIST MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -12%
- LCLorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +187%
- SMST MICHAEL'S CATHOLIC SHURCHone grant, 2018 · $40k
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.
Harding academy of memphis, inc. is a private school providing education from pre kindergarten through grade twelve.
Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee
Nashville inner city ministry is a christ-centered community organization dedicated to empowering the spiritual, educational and vocational development of at-risk youth and their families.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis, Inc. sees a world where every family has what they need to ensure the best health outcomes for their children. They provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and…
Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.
Our mission is to affirm the value of life by providing a network of care. We strive to empower mothers and fathers experiencing planned and unplanned pregnancies with healthy options through medical services, education, mentoring and…
Memphis recovery centers, inc. (mrc) provides compassionate treatment services for youth and adults suffering from substance addiction and co-occurring disorders, utilizing professional methods to improve spiritual, physical, emotional,…
To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…
City leadership's mission is to recruit, develop, and catalyze leaders for the benefit of the city of memphis. the organization was founded in order to maximize the leadership capital and potential of memphis. city leadership strives to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Christian Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Dennis Price Jr Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 61. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 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. 39 of the 58 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 EMMANUEL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Dixon Gallery and Gardens ↗
- Who funds Life Choices of Memphis Inc ↗
- Who funds Binghampton Christian Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Service Over Self Inc ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS MUSEUMS OF SCIENCE & HISTORY ↗
- Who funds MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MAN RISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DAY SCHOOLS INC DBA COMPASS COMMUNITY SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CONFIDENTIAL CARE MOBILE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION FOR A GREATER MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds THE DENNIS PRICE JR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REDZONE MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds Lorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
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: 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
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 John Dustin Buckman Charitable Trust 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.