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M Stratton Foster Charitable Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$290k
Granted FY2026still arriving
44
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212026.

Philanthropy$520kEducation$417kHuman Services$219kHealth$114kArts & Culture$97kReligion$70kCrime & Legal$44kYouth Development$40kOther$0
02FY2026 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k34 grants · $145k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $145k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALVATION ARMY$20,000
MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY$15,000
HARPETH HALL SCHOOL$15,000
LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY$15,000
YMCAYCAP$15,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY NATIONAL$15,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$15,000
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE$15,000
CHEEKWOOD$10,000
ANDREW JACKSONS HERMITAGE$10,000
CURREY INGRAM ACADEMY$8,000
EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF NASHV$8,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$7,500
NASHVILLE SYMPHONY$7,500
CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY$7,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–26, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YOUTH VILLAGES: $2k → 14%YOUTH VILLAGES: $2k → 14%YOUTH VILLAGES: $2k → 14%YOUTH VILLAGES: $2k → 14%INSIGHT COUNSELING CENTERS: $3k → 14%INSIGHT COUNSELING CENTERS: $3k → 14%LUKES COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $5k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $5k → 14%ST LUKES COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $5k → 14%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $5k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $5k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $5k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE INC: $4k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE INC: $4k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 49 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.

49 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2026, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
5

Total granted

$1.1M
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
-6%

Still filing today

71%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25’26
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • US
    UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE
    4× · 2023–2026 · $60k · revenue +9%
  • LU
    LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2023–2026 · $60k · revenue +19%
  • TH
    THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL
    4× · 2023–2026 · $60k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • VU
    VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY NATIONAL COMM
    one grant, 2025 · $15k
  • FF
    FAITH FAMILY CLINIC
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • N
    NEEDLINK
    one grant, 2025 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Kings Academy Nashville

King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.

Education
2
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
3
New Hope Academy

Christ-centered school educating children of diverse racial & socioeconomic backgrounds by establishing a biblical worldview & preparing each child to flourish academically, emotionally, socially & spiritually.

Education
4
Lead Public Schools Inc

Lead public schools exists to prepare all our students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in college and in life.

Education
5
Valor Collegiate Academies

To prepare a diverse student population for success in college and to live inspired and purposeful lives. our scholars will graduate with academic skills, social-emotional skills, and positive character strengths that rival the outcomes of…

Education
6
The New American Academy Charter School

The new american academy charter school empowers learners and inspires leaders to make this a better world. through our collaborative teacher teams, mastery-based career ladder, and looping cycles, we offer personalized rigorous…

Education
7
Nashville Inner City Ministry Inc

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.

8
Intrepid College Preparatory School

Intrepid college prep is committed to ensuring our scholars, educators, and families have the opportunity to unlock an unlimited future. by providing rigorous academic instruction and creating powerful relationships amongst our community's…

Education
9
Nashville Christian Schools Inc

Providing educational opportunities through operation of a private religious k-12 school and preschool. the mission is to be a christian, authentic, dynamic school equipping students to be global leaders.

10
Austin Trinity School

Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…

Education
11
University School of Jackson

The university school of jackson, a distinctive college preparatory school, seeks to instill a passion for academic excellence and lifelong learning so each student will reach his/her maximum potential.

Education
12
Nashville Cares

Nashville cares exists to end the hiv epidemic, promote comprehensive sexual health and end sexual health stigmatization and discrimination through prevention, education, treatment, support, advocacy, and strategic partnership.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Luke's Community House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Justice Industries Inc. 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 43 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr12%33%35–55yr11%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr12%27%35–55yr11%55%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
13%
621/4,647

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.

04the grantee network

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
27/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY — $80,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY — $60,000 · OtherLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITYFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $60,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHIndividual grant recipient — $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY — $23,000 · OtherSILOAM HEALTH — $23,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK — $20,000 · Other+26 more — $221,000 · Other+26 moreUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE — $60,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLETHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL — $60,000 · EducationTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOLMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE — $60,000 · EducationMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE…CURREY INGRAM ACADEMY — $32,000 · EducationCURREY INGRAM ACADEMYVanderbilt University — $30,000 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityFRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC — $20,000 · EducationFRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INCNASHVILLE COACHING COALITION — $15,000 · EducationEPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE — $15,000 · Education+1 more — $8,000 · EducationANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION — $37,000 · Arts & CultureANDREW JA…CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART — $37,000 · Arts & CultureCHEEKWOOD…Nashville Symphony Association — $22,500 · Arts & CultureNashville…FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE — $20,000 · Human ServicesST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesALIVE HOSPICE INC — $18,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILLAGES INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesPASTORAL COUNSELING CENTERS OF TENN — $6,000 · Human ServicesCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · HealthFAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC — $17,000 · HealthNASHVILLE GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthGILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $10,000 · HealthSTARS NASHVILLE — $8,000 · HealthMEN OF VALOR — $20,000 · Crime & LegalTHE VICTOR S JOHNSON III NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC — $14,000 · Crime & LegalMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC — $20,000 · Religion
Other$547,000Education$300,000Arts & Culture$96,500Human Services$70,000Health$65,000Crime & Legal$34,000Religion$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE — $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY — $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL — $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE — $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION — $37,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART — $37,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCURREY INGRAM ACADEMY — $32,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY — $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSILOAM HEALTH — $23,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNashville Symphony Association — $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEN OF VALOR — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALIVE HOSPICE INC — $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC — $17,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEEDLINK NASHVILLE — $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNASHVILLE COACHING COALITION — $15,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetEPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VICTOR S JOHNSON III NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC — $14,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCASA INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNASHVILLE GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE NEXT DOOR INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPENCIL FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTARS NASHVILLE — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMCNEILLY CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC — $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBAREFOOT REPUBLIC INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPASTORAL COUNSELING CENTERS OF TENN — $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJustice Industries Inc — $5,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOPEN TABLE OF NASHVILLE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE
  • Who funds LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE
  • Who funds ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART
  • Who funds CURREY INGRAM ACADEMY
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University
  • Who funds CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds SILOAM HEALTH
  • Who funds Nashville Symphony Association
  • Who funds CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC
  • Who funds FRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE
  • Who funds MEN OF VALOR
  • Who funds ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC
  • Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE INC
  • Who funds FAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC
  • Who funds NEEDLINK NASHVILLE
  • Who funds NASHVILLE COACHING COALITION
  • Who funds EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC
  • Who funds THE VICTOR S JOHNSON III NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds CASA INC
  • Who funds NASHVILLE GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE NEXT DOOR INC
  • Who funds GILDA'S CLUB MIDDLE TENNESSEE

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.

The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN48.1× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Nashville Predators Foundation · Enchiridion Foundation

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 M Stratton Foster Charitable Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to M Stratton Foster Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to M Stratton Foster Charitable Foundation 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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