Tennessee · Private foundation
The Oak Tree Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $37k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $583k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The Oak Tree Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 | 20 | $37k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $39k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $25k | 41% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $20k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $18k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $22k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $20k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $18k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trust for Virgin Islands Lands | $18,000 | 3 | 12% |
| Gallatin Shalom Zone Inc | $13,250 | 6 | 1% |
| Room in the Inn Inc | $8,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Salvus Center Inc | $6,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc | $4,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Sumner County Museum | $3,750 | 6 | 1% |
| Thistle Farms Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Historic Cragfont Inc | $3,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Panzi Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trust for Virgin Islands Lands | $18,000 | 3 | 12% |
| Gallatin Shalom Zone Inc | $13,250 | 6 | 1% |
| Room in the Inn Inc | $8,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Salvus Center Inc | $6,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc | $4,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Sumner County Museum | $3,750 | 6 | 1% |
| Thistle Farms Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Historic Cragfont Inc | $3,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Panzi Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Habitat for Humanity | $2,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Givedirectly Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Fund for Global Human Rights Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Tenngreen Land Conservancy | $1,750 | 2 | 0% |
| Nashville Academy Theatre and Nashville Children's Theatre Assoc | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Bledsoes Lick Historical Associatio | $1,500 | 3 | 4% |
| My Brothers Workshop Inc | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Nashville Rescue Mission | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Preservation Foundation of Sumner County | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($117k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Oak Tree Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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 · Memorial Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Oak Tree Charitable Trust
- How much does The Oak Tree Charitable Trust give?
- The Oak Tree Charitable Trust reported 20 grants totaling $37,450 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Oak Tree Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (41%), Human Services (18%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are The Oak Tree Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Trust for Virgin Islands Lands ($18k), Gallatin Shalom Zone Inc ($13k), Room in the Inn Inc ($9k).
- Does The Oak Tree Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Oak Tree Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Oak Tree Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Memorial Foundation Inc, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
- Where is The Oak Tree Charitable Trust based?
- The Oak Tree Charitable Trust is based in TN.
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