· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMPUTEE BLADE RUNNERS | $15,000 |
| HEAR NASHVILLE | $15,000 |
| BRISTOL REGIONAL SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER | $7,000 |
| ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CUMBERLAND CHILDREN'S CENTER | $5,000 |
| PROGESS INC | $4,000 |
| ACADEMY AT HICKORY HALLOW | $3,000 |
| ACADEMY AT OPRY MILLS | $3,000 |
| SIMON YOUTH ACADEMY | $3,000 |
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, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HNHEAR NASHVILLE9× · 2017–2025 · $184k · revenue +58% · 41% of their budget
- CCCumberland Childrens Center9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +44%
- BIBACKFIELD IN MOTION4× · 2018–2021 · $35k · revenue +127%
Funded once
- TMTHE MCNEILLY CENTERone grant, 2018 · $10k
- AYAble Youth Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +44%
- TFTHISTLE FARMS INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +10%
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.
Blind early services tn ensures that families are empowered and equipped through specialized programs of support to provide young children who are blind or low vision their absolute best start.
To empower individuals living with disabilities and challenges to gain independence
To empower and support people to be valued members of society.
To empower adults with developmental disabilities by providing affordable housing, work that is meaningful and an inclusive community in which to live.
The mission of easterseals tennessee is to make profound positive differences in the lives of people with disabilities as they learn, work, and play in their communities.
Provides support services to individuals with disabilities in the form of outreach, training education, consultants and referrals requarding use of assistive technologies.
To promote independence for persons with disabilities and provide guidance, education, and advocacy.
Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…
Educational facility for special needs children to help them achieve their highest possible level of success
Our mission is to provide comprehensive, research-based services for children and families affected by autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities. we strive to unlock the potential of individuals affected by autism…
East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…
Park center has been serving nashville for over 40 years, providing a place for hope and recovery for people experiencing serious mental illness, homelessness, and addiction. we meet people where they are and provide support through…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 27 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 HEAR NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Amputee Blade Runners ↗
- Who funds Cumberland Childrens Center ↗
- Who funds BACKFIELD IN MOTION ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL REGIONAL SPEECH & HEARING CENTER ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds PENCIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Able Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES ↗
- Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds TUCKER'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWORK HOTLINE INC ↗
- Who funds OASIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEPATH SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds MCNEILLY CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ransom Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ransom Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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