· Private foundation
Rucker-Donnell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $428k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRANKLIN ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH | $100,000 |
| BROOKLINK | $75,000 |
| MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY | $53,000 |
| SALEM UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $50,000 |
| CANNON COUNTY ARTS CENTER | $50,000 |
| ST PETERS | $50,000 |
| STANDING STONE MINISTRY | $50,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL NEEDS | $25,000 |
| A GATHERING OF FRIENDS | $20,000 |
| SEARCH MINISTRIES | $8,000 |
| ARCHIE'S PROMISE MINISTRIES | $4,000 |
| ASCENSION STRH FOUNDATION | $3,100 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $3,000 |
| SPECIAL KIDS | $1,500 |
| INSIGHT COUNSELING CENTERS | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $362k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- RCREDEEMER CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +160% · 55% of their budget
- MTMIDDLE TENNESSEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL3× · 2022–2024 · $885k · revenue +46%
- MSMt Salus Christian School2× · 2018–2019 · $125k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $1.7M
- CCCHEROKEE CHRISTIAN ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $230k
- PCPROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $140k · revenue +180%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.
Wilmington christian school provides a christ-centered challenging academic program with instruction based on the biblical view of god and the world. wcs teaches, influences, and encourages each student to effectively integrate biblical…
Landmark christian school partners with christian families by equipping college-bound students to embrace a christ-centered worldview, grow as servant leaders, and steward god's unique purpose for their lives.
Mckinney christian academy exists to honor jesus christ by teaching students to live biblically through education of mind, body, and spirit.
Educate preschool through twelfth grade children in a Christian environment while developing them spiritually,academically, emotionally, and physically with Jesus Christ as their standard and the Bible as their foundation.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
The mission is to glorify god by partnering with christian families to provide an academically excellent education that approaches every discipline from a christ-centered, biblical perspective.
Covenant Christian School (CCS) is committed to the academic, spiritual, physical, and social growth of our children in a Christ-centered environment. Continued on Schedule O Covenant Christian School cultivates a distinctive generation…
Summit Classical Christian School is a PreK-12 school that exists to cultivate generations of joyful disciples of Christ by partnering with faithful Christian families to educate their children from a Biblical worldview using classical…
Oconee Christian Academy exists to glorify God by nurturing students and equipping them to fulfill God's unique purpose for their lives.
Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Middle Tennessee Christian School and the most unlike its peers is Search Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 40 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 REDEEMER CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE TENNESSEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Mt Salus Christian School ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINK INC ↗
- Who funds STANDING STONE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Must Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL NEEDS ↗
- Who funds ELM STREET CULTURAL ARTS VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds MARTIN METHODIST FOUNDATION (FORMERLY MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE) ↗
- Who funds SEARCH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds PASTORAL COUNSELING CENTERS OF TENN ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Servant Foundation · Christy-Houston Foundation Inc · John D Floyd Charitable Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Rucker-Donnell Foundation 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.
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.