Tennessee · Private foundation
Athens Federal Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $314k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 47
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Athens Federal Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k 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 | 42 | $314k | 45% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $372k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $272k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $257k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $178k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $127k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $260k | 6% |
| FY2018 | 47 | $172k | 26% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee Wesleyan University | $200,000 | 5 | 0% |
| McMinn Co Educational & Community Foundation | $137,700 | 9 | 22% |
| Miracle Lake Inc | $133,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Athens-McMinn Family Young Men's Christian Association | $125,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Grace and Mercy Ministries | $60,600 | 8 | 16% |
| Straightway Ministry Inc | $52,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Casa Monroe Inc | $49,500 | 9 | 3% |
| Good Faith Clinic | $41,500 | 8 | 6% |
| Women at the Well Ministries | $38,900 | 9 | 2% |
| Coordinated Charities of Athens | $37,040 | 9 | 1% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($862k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Athens Federal Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: George R Johnson Family Foundation · East Tennessee Foundation · Monroe County United Way Fund Inc · United Way of McMinn and Meigs Counties · Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County · Variety of Eastern Tennessee · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Athens Federal Foundation
- How much does Athens Federal Foundation give?
- Athens Federal Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $314,160 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Athens Federal Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Human Services (15%), Food & Nutrition (14%).
- Who are Athens Federal Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Tennessee Wesleyan University ($200k), McMinn Co Educational & Community Foundation ($138k), Miracle Lake Inc ($133k).
- Does Athens Federal Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Athens Federal Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Athens Federal Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include George R Johnson Family Foundation, East Tennessee Foundation, Monroe County United Way Fund Inc.
- Where is Athens Federal Foundation based?
- Athens Federal Foundation is based in TN.
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