· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NASHVILLE HEALTH | $10,000 |
| THE LEGION FUND | $8,000 |
| MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY | $5,250 |
| ST PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| HOPE THROUGH HEALING HANDS | $1,500 |
| CUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT | $1,500 |
| LAND TRUST TENNESSEE | $1,500 |
| INSTITUTE FOR SAFER TRUCKING | $1,500 |
| WOODMONT CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| DENISE SMITH NURSING SCHOLARSHIP | $1,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL | $1,000 |
| ST PETERS ANGELICAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| FANNIE BATTLE DAY HOME FOR CHILDREN INC | $500 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH LEXINGTON | $500 |
| HIS HOLY HILL CHURCH | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NNASHVILLEHEALTH2× · 2024–2025 · $18k · revenue +190%
- MBMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE4× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +11%
- CRCUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC8× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +614%
Funded once
- YYWCAone grant, 2022 · $5k
- MFMAGOON FUND - UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAone grant, 2017 · $5k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE (TRAVIS BRANNON MEM FUND)one grant, 2023 · $3k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
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.
Christ-centered school educating children of diverse racial & socioeconomic backgrounds by establishing a biblical worldview & preparing each child to flourish academically, emotionally, socially & spiritually.
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.
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…
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.
Lead public schools exists to prepare all our students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in college and in life.
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…
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.
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…
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…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
How this is measured
45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ROAD SAFE AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds FAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SAFER TRUCKING ↗
- Who funds FANNIE BATTLE DAY HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds HIS HOLY HILL CHURCH ↗
- Who funds SADDLE UP ↗
- Who funds Nashville Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE COACHING COALITION ↗
- Who funds CENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Family & Childrens Services Inc ↗
- Who funds DOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Martha W Banker Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Martha W Banker Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Family & Childrens Services Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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