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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.

$251k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$148kCommunity Improvement$64kHuman Services$45kYouth Development$45kEducation$35kPhilanthropy$26kFood & Nutrition$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$22k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $10,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $250,985 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $240,985 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$740M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KNOXVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $7k → 12%CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY CARE ALLIANCE OF TENNESSEE: $23k → 14%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $6k → 12%CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY CARE ALLIANCE OF TENNESSEE: $13k → 14%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $5k → 12%CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY CARE ALLIANCE OF TENNESSEE: $13k → 14%THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $8k → 12%CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY CARE ALLIANCE OF TENNESSEE: $13k → 14%KNOXVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $13k → 12%CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY CARE ALLIANCE OF TENNESSEE: $10k → 14%KNOXVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10k → 12%Tennessee Emergency Medical Services for Children: $12k → 14%KNOXVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10k → 12%TENNESSEE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 14%LEADERSHIP KNOXVILLE INC: $6k → 12%KNOXVILLE AREA CHAMBER PARTNERSHIP: $6k → 12%KNOXVILLE AREA CHAMBER PARTNERSHIP: $5k → 12%KNOXVILLE AREA CHAMBER PARTNERSHIP: $5k → 12%KNOX COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%KNOXVILLE AREA CHAMBER PARTNERSHIP: $5k → 12%KNOXVILLE AREA CHAMBER PARTNERSHIP: $5k → 12%KNOXVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $5k → 12%THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $5k → 12%THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $5k → 12%THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $5k → 12%VARIETY OF EASTERN TENNESSEE: $10k → 12%THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $5k → 12%VARIETY OF EASTERN TENNESSEE: $10k → 12%VARIETY CHILDREN'S CHARITY: $5k → 12%THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $5k → 12%VARIETY OF EASTERN TENNESSEE: $10k → 12%VARIETY OF EASTERN TENNESSEE: $5k → 12%The RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $5k → 12%VARIETY OF EASTERN TENNESSEE: $10k → 12%VARIETY CHILDREN'S CHARITY: $5k → 12%EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION: $8k → 12%EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%KNOXVILLE ICE BEARS CARITABLE FOUNDATION: $26k → 12%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY: $8k → 12%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY: $7k → 12%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY: $7k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$339k · 9 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$339k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
-5%

Still filing today

89%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthYouth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • KA
    KNOXVILLE AREA CHAMBER PARTNERSHIP
    9× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +18%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    5× · 2018–2023 · $28k · revenue +26%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $24k · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • KI
    KNOXVILLE ICE BEARS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $26k
  • KN
    Knoxville News-Sentinel Charities Inc The Empty Stocking Fund
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -84%
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -5%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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…

Health
2
The Knox Foundation
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3
Knoxville Entrepreneur Center

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…

Education
4
The Knox County Chamber of Commerce

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…

—
5
The Muse Knoxville

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Kids Chance Inc

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.

Youth Development
7
Knoxville Symphony Society Incorporated

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Knoxville Academy of Medicine Auxiliary Philanthropic Fund

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…

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9
Knox Education Foundation

To advocate for student academic success in knox county through research, data-driven innovation, collaboration, and public policy initiatives

Education
10
Knoxville Academy of Medicine Foundation

To provide no-cost health care to families who have no insurance and do not qualify for the states low income insurance program.

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11
Knoxville Christian School

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.

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12
Knoxville Botanical Gardens and Arboretum

Knoxville botanical gardens and arboretum provides and maintains gardens for the benefit and enjoyment of the general public.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Knoxville Area Chamber Partnership; 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.
04the grantee network

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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
5/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY CARE ALLIANCE: $91,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S EMERGENCY CARE ALLIANCERonald McDonald House Charities of Knoxville TN Inc: $30,000 · HealthRonald McDonald House Charities of Knoxvill…American Heart Association Inc: $28,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $7,500 · HealthVARIETY OF EASTERN TENNESSEE: $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentVARIETY OF EASTERN TENNE…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL: $22,166 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TH…EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentEMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATIONKNOXVILLE AREA CHAMBER PARTNERSHIP: $63,643 · OtherKNOXVILLE AREA CHAMB…THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE: $12,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TE…THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $24,250 · EducationTHE UNIVE…LEADERSHIP KNOXVILLE INC: $6,000 · EducationLEADERSHI…KNOX COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationKNOX COUN…KNOXVILLE ICE BEARS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $25,750 · PhilanthropyKnoxville News-Sentinel Charities Inc The Empty Stocking Fund: $25,360 · Human Services
Health$157,000Youth Development$89,666Other$75,643Education$35,250Philanthropy$25,750Human Services$25,360

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDREN'S EMERGENCY CARE ALLIANCE: $91,500 over 7y, 19% of budgetKNOXVILLE AREA CHAMBER PARTNERSHIP: $63,643 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetVARIETY OF EASTERN TENNESSEE: $55,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Knoxville TN Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $28,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKnoxville News-Sentinel Charities Inc The Empty Stocking Fund: $25,360 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $24,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL: $22,166 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP KNOXVILLE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKNOX COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budget
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.

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.

University Health Sys…The Clayton Family Fo…The Boyd FoundationFood City Charitable …Haslam Family Foundat…Charities Aid Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
University Health System IncTN20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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