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Eastman Credit Union

Operated during 2025 as a state chartered credit union whose purpose is to be the preferred financial institution in the communities we serve by providing financial products and services which add value to members, guided by credit union (continued on schedule o) co-operative values and service excellence expectations.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$126k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Health$1.7MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.3MArts & Culture$771kCommunity Improvement$771kHuman Services$666kRecreation & Sports$475kPhilanthropy$424kEducation$253kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 39 grants below total $919,526 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,186,142 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $266,616 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $455k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $393k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.9B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NE TN$125,780
CITY OF KINGSPORT$102,250
SUMMIT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$60,000
HEALING HANDS HEALTH$54,500
TENNESSEE FINANCIAL LITERACY COMMISSION$50,000
FRONTIER HEALTH FOUNDATION$37,500
KINGSPORT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION$34,800
ETSU FOUNDATION$30,000
MARTIN HOUSE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$30,000
BARTER THEATRE$29,302
ETSU ATHLETICS$25,000
GREAT TEXAS BALLOON RACE$25,000
UNITED WAY OF EAST TN HIGHLANDS$23,800
KINGSPORT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$22,400
UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $504k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ISAIAH 117 HOUSE: $300k → 18%YWCA NORTHEAST TNSW VA: $80k → 15%YWCA NE TNSW VA: $16k → 15%FIRST TENNESSEE DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 14%YMCA OF BRISTOL: $8k → 15%YMCA OF BRISTOL: $8k → 15%YMCA OF BRISTOL: $8k → 15%YWCA NE TNSW VA: $7k → 15%YWCA NE TNSW VA: $7k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS - NE TN CHAPTER: $33k → 15%CHILDREN EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS INC: $12k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.2M · 39 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
33

Total granted

$5.2M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+3%

Still filing today

87%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $214k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther

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

  • BH
    BALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +97% · 28% of their budget
  • ET
    EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2025 · $485k · revenue +20%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TN
    3× · 2020–2025 · $243k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • AS
    APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue 0%
  • ISAIAH 117 HOUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue +31%
  • BC
    BOONES CREEK HISTORICAL TRUSTgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +60%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Tennessee Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The organizations mission is to promote and maintain a business climate favorable to businesses in tennessee.

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2
Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce

The Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce is an organization that promotes a positive business environment, community betterment and supports economic development

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3
Williamson County Chamber of Commerce

Williamson county chamber of commerce is organized to promote and perpetuate the business and commercial interests and activities in williamson county, tennessee and to support chamber members through programs and services.

Community Improvement
4
Chester County Chamber of Commerce

Promotion of economic growth and quality of life in Chester County, Tennessee.

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5
Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce

Our mission is to promote and support the development of strong businesses and a vibrant economy in the northern kentucky region, through leadership and advocacy, resulting in a better quality of life for all.

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6
United Way of South Central Tennessee

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.

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7
Volunteer East Tennessee

Volunteer East Tennessee inspires service by equipping organizations and mobilizing volunteers to connect with one another and strengthen communities.

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8
United Way of Wilson County & the Upper Cumberland

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.

Human Services
9
Decatur County Chamber of Commerce

Business and tourism development for decatur county, tennessee

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10
Greater Alleghany Highlands Chamber of Commerce

Promote economic development and tourism in the Alleghany Highlands

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11
Boone Area Chamber of Commerce

To enhance the economic vitality and quality of life in boone county

Community Improvement
12
Jackson County Chamber of Commerce

To be a leading driver and advocate for community and economic development in jackson county.

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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 Petworks Animal Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%5%<5yr12%5%5–10yr18%15%10–20yr15%12%20–35yr16%32%35–55yr16%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr12%6%5–10yr18%6%10–20yr15%7%20–35yr16%53%35–55yr16%26%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/83
the rest of the field
13%
303/2,374

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

69 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. 69 of the 83 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/69
Grantees still filing
40/69
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITY OF KINGSPORT TENNESSEE — $362,750 · OtherCITY OF KINGSPORT TENNESSEETHE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $204,826 · OtherTHE CHAMBER OF COMMERCEBARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA — $178,022 · OtherBARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIR…Kingsport Area Chamber of Commerce — $156,225 · OtherKingsport Area Chamber of CommerceK-PLAY SPORTS COUNCIL INC — $150,000 · OtherK-PLAY SPORTS COUNCIL INCTHE SALVATION ARMY — $111,708 · OtherGREATER KINGSPORT FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $92,043 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TN — $243,098 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TNBIRTHPLACE OF COUNTRY MUSIC INC — $100,000 · OtherPetworks Animal Services Inc — $100,000 · Other+40 more — $996,341 · Other+40 moreBALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,411,518 · HealthBALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATIONPROVIDENCE MEDICAL CLINIC OF KINGSPORT — $98,000 · HealthPROVIDENCE MEDICAL CLINIC…HEALING HANDS HEALTH CENTER INC — $62,043 · Health+3 more — $63,500 · HealthAPPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC — $1,001,000 · Housing & ShelterAPPALACHIA SERVI…+1 more — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterEAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $485,000 · EducationTUSCULUM UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · Education+3 more — $36,000 · EducationISAIAH 117 HOUSE — $300,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION NORTHEAST TN AND SOUTHWEST VA — $109,040 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $33,000 · Human ServicesYoung Mens Christian Association — $25,000 · Human ServicesFIRST TENNESSEE DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Human ServicesROTARY INTERNATIONAL-KINGSPORT ROTARY CL — $25,000 · Human Services+1 more — $12,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC — $128,306 · PhilanthropyEO COMPANIES — $120,750 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF EAST TENNESSEE HIGHLANDS INC — $116,300 · PhilanthropyFRONTIER HEALTH FOUNDATION — $56,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Hawkins County Inc — $42,000 · PhilanthropyGreene County United Way Inc — $24,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $18,000 · PhilanthropyKingsport Chamber Foundation Inc — $174,332 · Community ImprovementKIWANIS CLUB OF KINGSPORT FOUNDATION — $25,750 · Community ImprovementUNICOI COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $25,000 · Community ImprovementJUNIOR LEAGUE OF KINGSPORT INC — $12,000 · Community ImprovementAPPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP INC — $9,989 · Community Improvement
Other$2,695,013Health$1,635,061Housing & Shelter$1,021,000Education$541,000Human Services$529,040Philanthropy$505,356Community Improvement$247,071

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,411,518 over 4y, 28% of budgetAPPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC — $1,001,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $485,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetISAIAH 117 HOUSE — $300,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TN — $243,098 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $204,826 over 2y, 27% of budgetBARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA — $178,022 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetKingsport Chamber Foundation Inc — $174,332 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetKingsport Area Chamber of Commerce — $156,225 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC — $128,306 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetEO COMPANIES — $120,750 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EAST TENNESSEE HIGHLANDS INC — $116,300 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION NORTHEAST TN AND SOUTHWEST VA — $109,040 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetPetworks Animal Services Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetBIRTHPLACE OF COUNTRY MUSIC INC — $100,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetPROVIDENCE MEDICAL CLINIC OF KINGSPORT — $98,000 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetGREATER KINGSPORT FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $92,043 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGREAT TEXAS BALLOON RACE INC — $85,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetLONGVIEW ARBORETUM AND NATURE CENTER INC — $83,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetThe Coalition for Kids Inc — $75,238 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetHEALING HANDS HEALTH CENTER INC — $62,043 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRONTIER HEALTH FOUNDATION — $56,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetTHE LONGVIEW CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $50,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BRISTOL TN-VA INC — $42,160 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMARTIN HOUSE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER — $42,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Way of Hawkins County Inc — $42,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetSYMPHONY OF THE MOUNTAINS — $40,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetBOONES CREEK HISTORICAL TRUST — $35,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $33,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBristol Chamber of Commerce — $32,258 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetHolston Habitat for Humanity Inc — $32,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKEYSTONE DENTAL CARE INC — $27,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetKIWANIS CLUB OF KINGSPORT FOUNDATION — $25,750 over 1y, 32% of budgetUNICOI COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association — $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFIRST TENNESSEE DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGreene County United Way Inc — $24,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetFriends in Need Health Center Inc — $23,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOVENANT COUNSELING CENTER INC — $22,500 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetREGIONAL EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK — $21,568 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of the Big Pines — $21,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFamily Promise of Greater Johnson City Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetJOHNSON CITY AREA HOME BUILDERS ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAPPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY DENTAL CHARITIES — $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTUSCULUM UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE ACADEMY — $15,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BAYS MOUNTAIN PARK ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
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.

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.

Mountain States Healt…Food City Charitable …Wellmont Health SystemEast Tennessee Founda…Speedway Children's C…Tennessee Health Foun…American Electric Pow…Citizens Bank Tri-Cit…Clarke Charitable Fou…The James W and Franc…The United Company Fo…Givinga Foundation Inc
Mountain States Health AllianceTN47.2× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mountain States Health Alliance · Food City Charitable Foundation · Wellmont Health System · East Tennessee Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · Tennessee Health Foundation Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Citizens Bank Tri-Cities Foundation Ltd · Clarke Charitable Foundation · The James W and Frances Gibson McGlothlin Foundation · The United Company Foundation · Givinga Foundation Inc

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 Eastman Credit Union 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 83 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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