· Private foundation
Athens Federal Foundation
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $150k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $164k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA of Athens | $25,000 |
| Tennessee Wesleyan University | $25,000 |
| McMinn Education and Community Foundation - Compasion Closet | $20,000 |
| YMCA of Athens | $20,000 |
| Miracle Lake Inc | $15,000 |
| Tennessee Wesleyan University - Love Thy Neighbor Project | $15,000 |
| Englewood Rural Fire Department | $12,200 |
| CASA Cooradoir of TN | $12,000 |
| Etowah Rescue Squad | $10,000 |
| The HOPE Center Inc | $10,000 |
| CASA Monroe | $8,000 |
| McMinn County Emergency & Rescue Squad | $7,850 |
| Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church - Etowah Community Food Pantry | $7,500 |
| Monroe Tri-Community Volunteer Fire Department Inc | $7,000 |
| Coordinated Charities of Athens | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
59 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 19 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TWTENNESSEE WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY5× · 2019–2025 · $200k · revenue +43%
- MCMCMINN CO EDUCATIONAL & COMMUNITY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $138k · revenue +21%
- MLMIRACLE LAKE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $133k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- YLYMCA - LOCKER ROOM PROJECTone grant, 2024 · $100k
- TWTENNESSEE WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY - LOVE THY NEIGHBORone grant, 2024 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $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.
Serving the homeless population
The Mend House is a sober living community for men, in Knoxville, Tn. which empowers them to gain control over their actions, decisions and choices. The Mend House allows men to enjoy clean, sober and stable housing for up to 2 years while…
To provide employement opportunities to mentally or physically disabled individuals.
Half way house for diagnostic evaluation, treatment, shelter, counseling, educational program, and rehabilitation of alcoholics and drug addicts.
Providing a half-way house for recovering substance abusers
Transitional shelter for women, men and children for central oregon. to provide shelter and a safe place for hope.
The gentry house, inc. is an emergency transitional homeless shelter to help families with children in the region of murray and calloway county, ky. residents are given rent and utility assistance.
Provide free services that include pregnancy testing & ultrasound readings and to educate and support women, who find themselves in "crisis" pregnancies, about the developing life inside them and to love them and their unborn child through…
Men & women shelter - provide housing overnight 7 days a week, serve 3 meals a day, provide clothing and personal hygiene items as needed
Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling
We are a Christ-centered residential care facility for pregnant women in crisis. We offer a safe home that provides shelter, food, prenatal/postpartum care, spiritual, mental, financial, rides to medical appointments, educational and…
Hope ministries helps low income families in northern kentucky with emergency food assistance, clothing, household items, and used toys.
How this is measured
41 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. 41 of the 96 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.
- Who funds TENNESSEE WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MCMINN CO EDUCATIONAL & COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds ATHENS-MCMINN FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GRACE AND MERCY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds STRAIGHTWAY MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CASA MONROE INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD FAITH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AT THE WELL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds COORDINATED CHARITIES OF ATHENS ↗
- Who funds MCMINN COUNTY EMERGENCY RESCUE SQUAD ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MCMINN COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF BRADLEY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds The Trousdale School ↗
- Who funds ENGLEWOOD RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds ETOWAH RESCUE SQUAD ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Athens Federal Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Athens Federal Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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