Missouri · Private foundation
The Banks Scholarship Trust-Main
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $110k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 74
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 53% of the organizations The Banks Scholarship Trust-Main funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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 | 14 | $110k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $104k | 53% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $95k | 53% |
| FY2022 | 74 | $128k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $90k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $87k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 19 | $85k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia Institute of Technology | $24,358 | 4 | n/a |
| The Corporation of Mercer University | $22,000 | 3 | 0% |
| LaGrange College | $11,516 | 2 | 0% |
| Augusta University | $10,800 | 3 | n/a |
| Shorter University | $7,820 | 4 | 0% |
| Samford University | $3,750 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Richmond | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Brewton-Parker College Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Young Harris College | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Milligan University | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia Institute of Technology | $24,358 | 4 | n/a |
| The Corporation of Mercer University | $22,000 | 3 | 0% |
| LaGrange College | $11,516 | 2 | 0% |
| Augusta University | $10,800 | 3 | n/a |
| Shorter University | $7,820 | 4 | 0% |
| Samford University | $3,750 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Richmond | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Brewton-Parker College Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Young Harris College | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Milligan University | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Berry College Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Andrew College | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Emory University | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Utah | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 136 recipients with no EIN on record ($601k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Banks Scholarship Trust-Main supplied at peak.
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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: Georgia Independent College Association Inc · Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Banks Scholarship Trust-Main
- How much does The Banks Scholarship Trust-Main give?
- The Banks Scholarship Trust-Main reported 39 grants totaling $110,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 74 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Banks Scholarship Trust-Main fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (97%), Science & Tech (3%).
- Who are The Banks Scholarship Trust-Main's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Georgia Institute of Technology ($24k), The Corporation of Mercer University ($22k), LaGrange College ($12k).
- Does The Banks Scholarship Trust-Main fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Banks Scholarship Trust-Main accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Banks Scholarship Trust-Main?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Georgia Independent College Association Inc, Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc, Georgia Power Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Banks Scholarship Trust-Main based?
- The Banks Scholarship Trust-Main is based in MO.
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