· Private foundation
The Oak Tree Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RESTORING LIVES IN THE CARIBBEAN | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| GOOD LEAF EDUCAIOTN ASSOCIATION INC | $3,000 |
| THE SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENT | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| PANZI FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| GIVE DIRECTLY | $2,500 |
| CAMFED USA | $2,500 |
| FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS | $2,500 |
| ROOM IN THE INN | $1,500 |
| ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THISTLE FARMS | $1,000 |
| THE TRUST FOR VIRGIN ISLANDS LANDS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $750 |
| NASHVILLE CHILDRENS THEATRE | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 13 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TFTRUST FOR VIRGIN ISLANDS LANDS3× · 2023–2025 · $18k · revenue ×15
- GSGALLATIN SHALOM ZONE INC6× · 2018–2023 · $13k · revenue +283%
- EFElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- LCLARKSPUR CONSERVATION AT TAYLOR HOLone grant, 2024 · $2k
- FOFRIENDS OF BRIDAL HOUSEone grant, 2022 · $500
- NRNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSIONone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +7%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland
To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.
To promote independent living in tn and to support the independent living philosophy, practices, and values
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…
To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.
Summit land conservancy works with utah communities to conserve land and water for the benefit of the people and nature.
To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.
To protect and preserve lands of natural, ecological, scenic, historic, agricultural, or recreational significance in kansas.
The mission of the governor's foundation for health and wellness is to encourage and enable more tennesseans to lead healthier lives.
Our mission is to protect, connect, and enhance wildlife habitat, working lands, and community spaces in southeast idaho, now and for future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sumner County Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TRUST FOR VIRGIN ISLANDS LANDS ↗
- Who funds GALLATIN SHALOM ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds SALVUS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SUMNER COUNTY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC CRAGFONT INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds PANZI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TENNGREEN LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MY BROTHERS WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ACADEMY THEATRE AND NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOC ↗
- Who funds BLEDSOES LICK HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIO ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF SUMNER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Oak Tree Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.