· Public charity
East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc
East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $10,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $250,985 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $240,985 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KNOXVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +18% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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; $0 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
- KAKNOXVILLE AREA CHAMBER PARTNERSHIP9× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +18%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc5× · 2018–2023 · $28k · revenue +26%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2023 · $24k · revenue +131%
Funded once
- KIKNOXVILLE ICE BEARS CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $26k
- KNKnoxville News-Sentinel Charities Inc The Empty Stocking Fundone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -84%
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -5%
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 Knox County Chamber of Commerce is a private business organization and serves as a vehicle through which the business and professional community are organized to work together to define and solve community and economic development…
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is one of the nation's longest serving and most prestigious academic medical centers. Through its historic bond with Vanderbilt University, VUMC cultivates distinguished research and educational…
Knoxville entrepreneur center was formed for educational and charitable purpose to provide resources and assist entrepreneurs and small business owners in knoxville, tennessee and the surrounding community to transform their business…
Educate preschool through twelfth grade children in a Christian environment while developing them spiritually,academically, emotionally, and physically with Jesus Christ as their standard and the Bible as their foundation.
To provide no-cost health care to families who have no insurance and do not qualify for the states low income insurance program.
To inspire and empower all children through transformative learning experiences. our vision is to make our community the best place for all to learn through the power of play.
To develop and sustain a symphony orchestra of the highest artistic standards and to reach east tennessee audiences of all ages by providing excellence in musical performance and education programs.
To advocate for student academic success in knox county through research, data-driven innovation, collaboration, and public policy initiatives
Kids' chance of tennessee works with our statewide community to provide higher education opportunities to the children of tennessee workers who have been killed or have had a catastrophic injury in a work related accident.
Knoxville botanical gardens and arboretum provides and maintains gardens for the benefit and enjoyment of the general public.
KAMA Philanthropic Fund receives tax-deductible contributions for the qualifying projects of the Fund and for sponsoring activities to raise monies to be used exclusively for charitable, scientific, safety and literary or educational…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Knoxville Area Chamber Partnership and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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.
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 CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY CARE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE AREA CHAMBER PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds VARIETY OF EASTERN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Knoxville TN Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE ICE BEARS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Knoxville News-Sentinel Charities Inc The Empty Stocking Fund ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL ↗
- Who funds EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP KNOXVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds KNOX COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
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: University Health System Inc · The Clayton Family Foundation · The Boyd Foundation · Food City Charitable Foundation · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc 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.