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Martha W Banker Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$45k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Philanthropy$68kEducation$59kInternational$45kReligion$33kHealth$31kHuman Services$13kEnvironment$13kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$500
Median grant
6
States reached
$838k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NASHVILLE HEALTH$10,000
THE LEGION FUND$8,000
MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY$5,250
ST PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$5,000
INSTITUTE FOR SAFER TRUCKING$1,500
CUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT$1,500
LAND TRUST TENNESSEE$1,500
HOPE THROUGH HEALING HANDS$1,500
ST PETERS ANGELICAN CHURCH$1,000
WOODMONT CHRISTIAN CHURCH$1,000
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL$1,000
DENISE SMITH NURSING SCHOLARSHIP$1,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$500
HIS HOLY HILL CHURCH$500
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH LEXINGTON$500
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 (FY17–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $1k → 15%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $400 → 6%FANNIE BATTLE DAY HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $1k → 14%FANNIE BATTLE DAY HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $750 → 14%FANNIE BATTLE DAY HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $750 → 14%FANNIE BATTLE DAY HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $500 → 14%PROJECT REDESIGN: $500 → 14%COUNCIL ON AGING - GREATER NASHVILLE: $250 → 14%FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $200 → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
CO
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$236k · 33 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
40

Total granted

$236k
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+11%

Still filing today

55%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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

  • N
    NASHVILLEHEALTH
    2× · 2024–2025 · $18k · revenue +190%
  • MB
    MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE
    4× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +11%
  • CR
    CUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +614%

Funded once

  • MF
    MAGOON FUND - UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • Y
    YWCA
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · $3k

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
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
2
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
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
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
5
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
6
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
7
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
8
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
9
Leadership Nashville Foundation

Leadership nashville identifies and invites a diverse cross-section of professional, civic and charitable leaders to participate in an intensive program designed to give them a multi-dimensional understanding of the community.

10
Presbyterian School

Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…

Education
11
The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation

The nashville chamber public benefit foundation supports the work of the nashville area chamber of commerce through efforts to improve the quality of education, encourage public and private efforts around education, and to facilitate the…

12
Union University

Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centennial Park Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Heritage Plantation 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 37 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr16%9%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr13%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr16%5%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%40%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr13%29%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/51
the rest of the field
15%
3,834/26,258

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

45 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 83 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/45
Grantees still filing
26/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE LEGION FUND — $55,500 · OtherTHE LEGION FUNDTHE DISCOVERY SCHOOL — $8,000 · OtherCHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $7,000 · OtherROAD SAFE AMERICA — $6,000 · OtherWEST END UNITED METHODIST — $5,700 · OtherFRIENDS OF STEWART HOME AND SCHOOL — $5,500 · Other+47 more — $73,150 · Other+47 moreHOPE THROUGH HEALING HANDS — $44,500 · PhilanthropyHOPE THROUGH HEAL…+2 more — $750 · PhilanthropyMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE — $14,550 · EducationMONTGOMERY BE…HARDING ACADEMY — $8,500 · EducationHARDING ACADE…CHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOLS — $6,000 · EducationCHARLOTTE LAT…NASHVILLE COACHING COALITION — $1,500 · Education+7 more — $5,150 · Education+7 moreNASHVILLEHEALTH — $18,000 · HealthNASHVILLEH…FAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC — $5,500 · HealthFAITH FAMI…SADDLE UP — $2,000 · HealthSADDLE UPTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $1,000 · Health+1 more — $300 · HealthCUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC — $9,750 · EnvironmentTHE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC — $1,500 · EnvironmentFANNIE BATTLE DAY HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesFamily & Childrens Services Inc — $1,400 · Human ServicesPROJECT REDESIGN INC — $500 · Human ServicesCHALLENGE ASPEN — $400 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL ON AGING OF GREATER NASHVILLE DBA AGE WELL MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $250 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE — $200 · Human ServicesNashville Symphony Association — $2,000 · Arts & CultureANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION — $1,750 · Arts & CultureCENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY — $1,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$160,850Philanthropy$45,250Education$35,700Health$26,800Environment$11,250Human Services$5,750Arts & Culture$5,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOPE THROUGH HEALING HANDS — $44,500 over 9y, 100% of budgetNASHVILLEHEALTH — $18,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE — $14,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC — $9,750 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHARDING ACADEMY — $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOLS — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROAD SAFE AMERICA — $6,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC — $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFANNIE BATTLE DAY HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SAFER TRUCKING — $3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHIS HOLY HILL CHURCH — $2,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNashville Symphony Association — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSADDLE UP — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION — $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE COACHING COALITION — $1,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFamily & Childrens Services Inc — $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS — $1,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTIN METHODIST FOUNDATION (FORMERLY MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE) — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBATTLE GROUND ACADEMY — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Learning Collaborative — $900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBelmont University — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNURTURE THE NEXT FKA PREVENT CHILD ABUSE TENNESSEE — $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT REDESIGN INC — $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHERITAGE PLANTATION FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMercury One Inc — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUrbanPromise Charlotte — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGE ASPEN — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRENEWAL HOUSE INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBal d Hiver Benefit Inc — $300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP HOME AUXILIARY INC — $250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AGING OF GREATER NASHVILLE DBA AGE WELL MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRINITY FORUM INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE — $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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 HOPE THROUGH HEALING HANDS
  • Who funds NASHVILLEHEALTH
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE
  • Who funds CUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC
  • Who funds HARDING ACADEMY
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOLS
  • Who funds ROAD SAFE AMERICA
  • Who funds FAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC
  • Who funds FANNIE BATTLE DAY HOME FOR CHILDREN INC
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SAFER TRUCKING
  • Who funds HIS HOLY HILL CHURCH
  • Who funds Nashville Symphony Association
  • Who funds SADDLE UP
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC
  • Who funds ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC
  • Who funds NASHVILLE COACHING COALITION
  • Who funds CENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds Family & Childrens Services Inc
  • Who funds DOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS

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 IncTN39.9× affinity22 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 · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Ebs Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Milton and Denice Johnson Family Foundation · The Rich Foundation · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Louise B Wallace Foundation 19702

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 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Family & Childrens Services Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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How do I get to Martha W Banker Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Martha W Banker Charitable Trust 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 83 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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