Tennessee · Private foundation
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 54%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $838k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 54% of the organizations Martha W Banker Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $44k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $46k | 54% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $35k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $45k | 62% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $33k | 55% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $22k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $17k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $24k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hope Through Healing Hands | $44,500 | 9 | 100% |
| Nashvillehealth | $18,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Montgomery Bell Academy of the University of Nashville | $14,550 | 4 | 0% |
| Cumberland River Compact Inc | $9,750 | 8 | 0% |
| Harding Academy | $8,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Christ Episcopal Church | $7,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Road Safe America | $6,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Charlotte Latin Schools | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Faith Family Medical Center Inc | $5,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Institute for Safer Trucking | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($126k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Martha W Banker Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 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 · 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
How this is measured
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About Martha W Banker Charitable Trust
- How much does Martha W Banker Charitable Trust give?
- Martha W Banker Charitable Trust reported 27 grants totaling $44,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Martha W Banker Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (23%), Education (20%), International (15%).
- Who are Martha W Banker Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hope Through Healing Hands ($45k), Nashvillehealth ($18k), Montgomery Bell Academy of the University of Nashville ($15k).
- Does Martha W Banker Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Martha W Banker Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Martha W Banker Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Memorial Foundation Inc, Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation.
- Where is Martha W Banker Charitable Trust based?
- Martha W Banker Charitable Trust is based in TN.
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