How much did MARTHA W BANKER CHARITABLE TRUST grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of MARTHA W BANKER CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

—

2019

nashville

2020

—

2021

methodist

2022

battlenashville

2023

nashvillebattleepiscopal

2024

cathedralnashville

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$947k

Total assets

Largest grants

THE LEGION FUND$8,000
NASHVILLE HEALTH$8,000
HARDING ACADEMY$3,500
THE DISCOVERY SCHOOL$2,500
HOPE THROUGH HEALING HANDS$2,000
MTSU (DANIELS CENTER)$2,000
NASHVILLE SYMPHONY$2,000
SWAN BALL$1,600
WOODMONT CHRISTIAN CHURCH$1,500
NATURE CONSERVANCY$1,500
CUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT$1,500
INSTITUTE FOR SAFER TRUCKING$1,500
WEST END UNITED METHODIST$1,400
FRIENDS OF WARNER PARK$1,000
CHIEF CARES FUND$1,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$183k · 26 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$183k

$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+65%

Still filing today

46%

34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureReligionOther

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

HA
HARDING ACADEMY
4× · 2021–2024 · $9k · revenue +16%
CR
CUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT
7× · 2018–2024 · $8k · revenue +614%
CL
CHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOLS INC
2× · 2022–2023 · $6k · revenue +45%

Funded once

FO
FRIENDS OF STEWART HOME AND SCHOOL
one grant, 2020 · $5k
MF
MAGOON FUND - UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
one grant, 2017 · $5k
Y
YWCA
one grant, 2022 · $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.

Davidson Day School

Davidson Day is a Pre-K through 12th grade college preparatory school located in Davidson, North Carolina. Davidson Day School fosters academic excellence through collaboration, creativity, and character development. Our vision is to be a…

Education

Austin Trinity School

Our independent school provides an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment.

Education

Hope Academy of Charlotte Inc

Christ-centered, college preparatory, academic program.

Education

Presbyterian School

Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child.

Education

Ambleside School

Ambleside school is a christ-centered school committed to providing a charlotte mason "living education." in partnership with the family, the school guides and empowers each student to think with the mind of christ and to author a life…

Education

Charlotte Country Day School

Charlotte country day school provides comprehensive educational programs for grades junior kindergarten through grade 12 on a non-discriminatory basis.

Education

Charlotte Preparatory School Inc

Charlotte Preparatory School fosters lifelong learning and provides an exemplary educational experience founded on academic excellence, positive character, and leadership development in a diverse, inclusive community.

Education

The Hill School

Secondary boarding/day educational institution

Education

Heritage Christian Academy

The school is an independent, multi-denominational, biblically based christian school, that desires to work with families across the spectrum of the body of christ to produce a distinctively christian college preparatory environment.

Education

Davidson Academy

Davidson academy offers a strong christian foundation for college preparation by nurturing spiritual, intellectual, physical, and social growth in an interdenominational setting.

Education

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

The Compass School of Texas

We believe in inquiry-based learning and bringing real-world experiences into the classroom to help students draw connections between lessons and how they can impact the world.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centennial Park Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Fannie Battle Day Home for. 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 38 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%1/37

the rest of the field

15%

1,934/13,271

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.

05the grantee network

32 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/32

Grantees still filing

20/32

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$150,650Philanthropy$43,250Education$29,550Environment$8,250Health$7,800Human Services$3,400Arts & Culture$3,250

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.

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 MiddleTN37.1× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle · Memorial Foundation Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn · Ebs Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Horatio B & Willie J Buntin Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Louise B Wallace Foundation 19702 · Joe C Davis Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc

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 organisation MARTHA W BANKER 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HOPE THROUGH HEALING HANDS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 450529570 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HOPE THROUGH HEALING HANDS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Martha W Banker Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Martha W Banker Charitable Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MARTHA W BANKER CHARITABLE TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

32 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Martha W Banker Charitable Trust?

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MARTHA W BANKER CHARITABLE TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

32 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Martha W Banker Charitable Trust?

More from the funding graph