Tennessee · Private foundation
M Stratton Foster Charitable Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $290k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2026
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 45
- FY2023 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 1
- Total assets, FY2026
- $4.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 16% of the organizations M Stratton Foster Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 43 | $290k | 9% |
| FY2025 | 45 | $285k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 45 | $284k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $275k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2026.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Presbyterian Church | $60,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Lipscomb University | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| University School of Nashville | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Harpeth Hall School | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Montgomery Bell Academy of the University of Nashville | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Andrew Jackson Foundation Fka Ladies' Hermitage Association | $37,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art | $37,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Currey Ingram Academy | $32,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Vanderbilt University | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cumberland University | $23,000 | 4 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($303k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
M Stratton Foster Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 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: 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
How this is measured
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About M Stratton Foster Charitable Foundation
- How much does M Stratton Foster Charitable Foundation give?
- M Stratton Foster Charitable Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $290,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 45 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2025.
- What does M Stratton Foster Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2026, its largest causes are Philanthropy (31%), Education (25%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are M Stratton Foster Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2026: First Presbyterian Church ($60k), Lipscomb University ($60k), University School of Nashville ($60k).
- Does M Stratton Foster Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does M Stratton Foster Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as M Stratton Foster Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Memorial Foundation Inc, Hca Healthcare Foundation.
- Where is M Stratton Foster Charitable Foundation based?
- M Stratton Foster Charitable Foundation is based in TN.
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