· Private foundation
Citizens Bank Tri-Cities Foundation Ltd
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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 60% of its 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 36 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Citizens Bank Tri-Cities Foundation Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Citizens Bank Tri-Cities Foundation Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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