Tennessee · Private foundation
Rucker-Donnell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $494k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Rucker-Donnell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 16 | $494k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $785k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $1.0M | 57% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $744k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $159k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $113k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $1.8M | 75% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $237k | 60% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Redeemer Classical Academy Inc | $1,505,500 | 5 | 55% |
| Middle Tennessee Christian School | $885,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Providence Christian Academy | $140,180 | 1 | 3% |
| Mt Salus Christian School | $125,000 | 2 | 12% |
| Franklin Road Baptist Church | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Brooklink Inc | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Standing Stone Ministries Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Must Ministries Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| International Needs | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Elm Street Cultural Arts Village | $20,000 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Redeemer Classical Academy Inc | $1,505,500 | 5 | 55% |
| Middle Tennessee Christian School | $885,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Providence Christian Academy | $140,180 | 1 | 3% |
| Mt Salus Christian School | $125,000 | 2 | 12% |
| Franklin Road Baptist Church | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Brooklink Inc | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Standing Stone Ministries Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Must Ministries Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| International Needs | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Elm Street Cultural Arts Village | $20,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Boy Scouts of America 560 Middle Tennessee | $14,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Martin Methodist Foundation (Formerly Martin Methodist College) | $13,307 | 2 | 0% |
| Search Ministries | $8,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Special Kids Inc | $4,800 | 5 | 0% |
| Pastoral Counseling Centers of Tenn | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Search Ministries Inc | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Young Life | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Alive Hospice Inc | $2,468 | 1 | 0% |
| Great Gatsby Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for the Arts Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Rucker-Donnell Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · 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
How this is measured
About Rucker-Donnell Foundation
- How much does Rucker-Donnell Foundation give?
- Rucker-Donnell Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $494,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Rucker-Donnell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (59%), Religion (9%), Arts & Culture (1%).
- Who are Rucker-Donnell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Redeemer Classical Academy Inc ($1.5M), Middle Tennessee Christian School ($885k), Providence Christian Academy ($140k).
- Does Rucker-Donnell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rucker-Donnell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rucker-Donnell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Servant Foundation, Christy-Houston Foundation Inc.
- Where is Rucker-Donnell Foundation based?
- Rucker-Donnell Foundation is based in TN.
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