South Dakota · Private foundation
Ransom 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.
- $60k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Ransom Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $60k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $53k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $59k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $62k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $61k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $58k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $58k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $56k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hear Nashville | $184,000 | 9 | 41% |
| St Baldrick's Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Amputee Blade Runners | $45,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Cumberland Childrens Center | $45,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Backfield in Motion | $35,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Bristol Regional Speech & Hearing Center | $19,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Guiding Eyes for the Blind Inc | $11,400 | 3 | 0% |
| Pencil Foundation | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Able Youth Inc | $6,600 | 1 | 5% |
| Bridges | $5,650 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hear Nashville | $184,000 | 9 | 41% |
| St Baldrick's Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Amputee Blade Runners | $45,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Cumberland Childrens Center | $45,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Backfield in Motion | $35,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Bristol Regional Speech & Hearing Center | $19,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Guiding Eyes for the Blind Inc | $11,400 | 3 | 0% |
| Pencil Foundation | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Able Youth Inc | $6,600 | 1 | 5% |
| Bridges | $5,650 | 2 | n/a |
| Thistle Farms Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tucker's House | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Alive Hospice Inc | $4,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Progress Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Homework Hotline Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Oasis Center Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Bluepath Service Dogs Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| McNeilly Center for Children Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($76k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ransom Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 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 · Nashville Predators Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · T & T Family Foundation · The Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The James W Pickle Charitable Foundation · Patricia and Rodes Hart Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc · Joe C Davis Foundation
How this is measured
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About Ransom Charitable Trust
- How much does Ransom Charitable Trust give?
- Ransom Charitable Trust reported 9 grants totaling $60,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ransom Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (55%), Human Services (13%), Recreation & Sports (13%).
- Who are Ransom Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hear Nashville ($184k), St Baldrick's Foundation Inc ($50k), Amputee Blade Runners ($45k).
- Does Ransom Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ransom 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 Ransom Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Nashville Predators Foundation, Memorial Foundation Inc.
- Where is Ransom Charitable Trust based?
- Ransom Charitable Trust is based in SD.
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