How much did EASTMAN CREDIT UNION grant in FY2024?

EASTMAN CREDIT UNION reported 30 grants totaling $1,913,703 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is EASTMAN CREDIT UNION based?

EASTMAN CREDIT UNION is based in TN.

EASTMAN CREDIT UNION

Foundation Dossiers

· Public charity

EASTMAN CREDIT UNION

Operated during 2024 as a state chartered credit union whose purpose is (continued on schedule o) 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 co-operative values and service excellence expectations.

$1.9M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$1.0M

Largest

01What you fund

0175% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Health$1.5MHousing & Shelter$1.0MHuman Services$513kEducation$501kPhilanthropy$384kCommunity Improvement$202kArts & Culture$146kFood & Nutrition$117kAnimals$100kOther$1.7M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

covid reliefimprovinggreater longviewfoodfeedcorporateleadership

2021

girlsballad healthstrongphysicalkidssocialhope

2022

clinical counselingballad healthsafechildrenspiritualenablephysical

2023

enablekidsnurturingfocuschildhoodenvironmentarboretum nature

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $28k
$10k–50k23 grants · $497k
$50k–250k2 grants · $201k
$250k+1 grant · $1.0M

$21,800

Median grant

States reached

$9.1B

Total assets

Largest grants

APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC$1,001,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NE TN$101,000
CITY OF KINGSPORT$100,000
KINGSPORT CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC$47,800
AMERICAN RED CROSS - NE TN CHAPTER$33,000
HOLSTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$32,000
BARTER THEATRE$30,000
UNITED WAY OF EAST TN HIGHLANDS$30,000
SALVATION ARMY OF JOHNSON CITY$30,000
KINGSPORT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$29,675
KIWANIS CLUB OF KINGSPORT FOUNDATION$25,750
GREAT TEXAS BALLOON RACE$25,000
UNICOI COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$25,000
FIRST TENNESSEE DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC$25,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT$21,800

02The need

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 (FY21–24, $488k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.4M · 32 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.4M

$654k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%

+34%

Still filing today

84%

76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

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
3× · 2020–2022 · $1.4M · revenue +190% · 28% of their budget
EF
ETSU FOUNDATION
2× · 2020–2021 · $455k · revenue +14%
KC
KINGSPORT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +15%

Funded once

ISAIAH 117 HOUSEgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue +11650%
BC
BOONES CREEK HISTORICAL TRUST
one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue -67%
RC
ROTARY CLUB OF KINGSPORT
one grant, 2020 · $25k

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.

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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East Tennessee Children's Hospital

At etch, children are our only concern, providing the best healthcare to every child served.

Health

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

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

Greene County United Way Inc

To aid and promote the social welfare of Greene County, TN.

Philanthropy

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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Boys & Girls Club of Greater Kingsport Inc

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

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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. our vision is to be the…

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Chester County Chamber of Commerce

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

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United Way of South Central Tennessee

Improve lives by advancing opportunities for education, health and financial stability for all.

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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…

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Tennessee Charitable Care Network

The mission of tccn is to support, educate, and represent non-profit organizations that provide charitable healthcare services to low-income, uninsured, and underserved tennesseans.

Health

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 Birthplace of Country Music 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 field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/72

the rest of the field

11%

258/2,385

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.

05the grantee network

60 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

59/60

Grantees still filing

39/60

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,101,616Health$1,531,311Housing & Shelter$1,021,000Human Services$513,000Education$500,500Philanthropy$384,306Community Improvement$202,282

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.

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 Health AllianceTN41.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mountain States Health Alliance · Wellmont Health System · East Tennessee Foundation · Food City Charitable Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · Eastman Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · East Texas Communities Foundation · United Way of East Tennessee · United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc · Givinga Foundation Inc · Citizens Bank Tri-Cities Foundation Ltd

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: KIWANIS CLUB OF KINGSPORT FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 271966427 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on KIWANIS CLUB OF KINGSPORT FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 32% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Eastman Credit Union?

Find your warmest path to Eastman Credit Union through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

EASTMAN CREDIT UNION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

60 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Eastman Credit Union?

More from the funding graph

EASTMAN CREDIT UNION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

60 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Eastman Credit Union?

More from the funding graph