· Private foundation
Citizens Bank Tri-Cities Foundation Ltd
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
- $250k+1 grant · $418k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELIZABETHTON HIGH SCHOOL | $418,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ELIZABETHTONCARTER COUNTY | $20,000 |
| HAMPTON HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF EAST TENNESSEE HIGHLANDS INC | $7,788 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC | $4,071 |
| UNITED WAY OF BRISTOL TN-VA INC | $4,040 |
| THE WELL | $3,612 |
| NORTHEAST STATE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLE INC | $718 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 60% 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.
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 +20% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $672k · revenue +131%
- ETEAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $146k · revenue +20%
- BABoys and Girls Club of Elizabethton Carter County Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $103k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- HAHOLSTON AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2020 · $25k
- CTCYCLONE TOUCHDOWN CLUBone grant, 2020 · $23k · revenue -25%
- GFGRACE FELLOWSHIP CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
The united way of south central tennessee's mission is to improve lives by advancing opportunities for education, health, and financial stability for all. its vision is to be the primary community solutions leader for human services.
Volunteer East Tennessee inspires service by equipping organizations and mobilizing volunteers to connect with one another and strengthen communities.
United ways of tennessee is a statewide organization providing member support services to 31 united ways across the state. we accomplish our mission through advocacy, collaboration and collective action that provides solutions to our…
United way brings together people and resources and collaborates with over 27 local non-profit agencies to advance the common good in etowah county.
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
The United Way of Wilson County exists to enhance the quality of life through a combined effort of individuals and organizations pulling together to address health and human service needs in Wilson County and the Upper Cumberland.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
To be clearly recognized as the most effective way to serve the most people through organizing voluntary efforts aimed at strengthening the Greene County community.
To advance state policies and practices that ensure all tennessee children from birth through 3rd grade get the high quality early education they need to power our state's future.
To identify, prevent, and remedy water pollution statewide through a network of allies and resources.
To promote and support literacy, scientific, educational,scholarship,research, and developmental goals at tennessee state university.
To inform, involve and serve members of the ecu family throughout their lifelong relationship with the university through the promotion of goodwill and recognition of students and alumni.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jeremiah School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 36 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 THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Elizabethton Carter County Inc ↗
- Who funds The Well Inc ↗
- Who funds CYCLONE TOUCHDOWN CLUB ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF EAST TENNESSEE HIGHLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BRISTOL TN-VA INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF TRI-CITIES TN/VA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BAYS MOUNTAIN PARK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC ↗
- Who funds Jeremiah School ↗
- Who funds CARSON-NEWMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Eastman Credit Union · East Tennessee Foundation · Wellmont Health System · Tennessee Health Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · United Ways of Tennessee · Ballad Health · Mountain States Health Alliance · Food City Charitable Foundation · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · United Way Worldwide
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 Citizens Bank Tri-Cities Foundation Ltd 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.
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