· Private foundation
East Tennessee Cardiovascular Research 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 $10k4 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHADASHA FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
| WEST ATHLETIC COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| KNOXVILLE YOUTH ATHLETICS | $10,000 |
| 1907 FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATINAHA GOLF TOUR | $2,000 |
| HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| TN GOLF FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 15% of East Tennessee Cardiovascular Research Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 87% of the giving stays in TN; by stated purpose, 77%.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $96k · revenue +33%
- RAREMOTE AREA MEDICAL4× · 2018–2021 · $70k · revenue +69%
- KMKNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART4× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- KCKNOX CO BOARD OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2017 · $40k
- COCHURCH OF THE ASCENCSIONone grant, 2018 · $2k
- TGTENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +30%
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.
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The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
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To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.
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How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 21 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 CHADASHA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds REMOTE AREA MEDICAL ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KNOX YOUTH SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
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: The Clayton Family Foundation · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization East Tennessee Cardiovascular Research Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from East Tennessee Cardiovascular Research Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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