· Private foundation
The Banks Scholarship Trust-Main
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABRAHAM BALDWIN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE | $6,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $6,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $6,000 |
| MERCER UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| MIDDLE GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,750 |
| MIDDLE GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,750 |
| GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $4,500 |
| GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $4,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $4,000 |
| MERCER UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY | $3,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $3,500 |
| GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY | $3,500 |
| SHORTER UNIVERSITY | $3,500 |
| KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% of its 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.
41 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 3 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA4× · 2018–2025 · $106k
- GSGEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY2× · 2024–2025 · $35k
- GIGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY4× · 2018–2025 · $24k
Funded once
- MGMIDDLE GEORGIA ST UNIV FBOone grant, 2023 · $11k
- GCGEORGIA COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $10k
- GSGEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIV FBOone grant, 2023 · $8k
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.
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The university is a comprehensive university affiliated with the south carolina baptist convention offering bachelors, masters, and doctorate degrees. located on approximately 398 acres in the upstate region of south carolina near the…
Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
The university statement of values consists of christian heritage, baptist heritage, academic excellence, liberal arts, teamwork, a student-centered focus, community engagement and diversity.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 150 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Banks Scholarship Trust-Main funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Banks Scholarship Trust-Main. Bigger dots raise more.
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