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M Stratton Foster Charitable Foundation
Its FY2026 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 FY2021–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k34 grants · $145k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- USUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE4× · 2023–2026 · $60k · revenue +9%
- LULIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY4× · 2023–2026 · $60k · revenue +19%
- THTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL4× · 2023–2026 · $60k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- VUVANDERBILT UNIVERSITY NATIONAL COMMone grant, 2025 · $15k
- FFFAITH FAMILY CLINICone grant, 2024 · $6k
- NNEEDLINKone grant, 2025 · $5k
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.
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.
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.
Christ-centered school educating children of diverse racial & socioeconomic backgrounds by establishing a biblical worldview & preparing each child to flourish academically, emotionally, socially & spiritually.
Lead public schools exists to prepare all our students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in college and in life.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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.
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 field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
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 2017–2026, 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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