· Private foundation
Rucker-Donnell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $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 |
| ST PETERS | $50,000 |
| SALEM UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $50,000 |
| STANDING STONE MINISTRY | $50,000 |
| CANNON COUNTY ARTS CENTER | $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 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 40 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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rucker-Donnell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rucker-Donnell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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