How much does Eastman Credit Union give?

Eastman Credit Union reported 39 itemized grants totaling $919,526, out of $1,186,142 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Eastman Credit Union fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (24%), Public Safety & Disaster (18%), Arts & Culture (11%).

Who are Eastman Credit Union's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Ballad Health Foundation ($1.4M), Appalachia Service Project Inc ($1.0M), East Tennessee State University Foundation ($485k).

Does Eastman Credit Union fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Eastman Credit Union?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mountain States Health Alliance, Food City Charitable Foundation, Wellmont Health System.

Where is Eastman Credit Union based?

Eastman Credit Union is based in TN.

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Tennessee · Public charity

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 FY2025(still arriving): 39
Itemized grants FY2025: 30
Organizations funded FY2024: 37%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $920k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $125,780
Organizations funded a year: 26 to 37; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 3
Total assets, FY2025: $9.9B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 37% of the organizations Eastman Credit Union funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	39	$920k	28%
FY2024	30	$1.7M	37%
FY2023	26	$487k	23%
FY2022	28	$705k	25%
FY2021	34	$2.5M	32%
FY2020	37	$864k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Ballad Health Foundation	$1,411,518	4	28%
Appalachia Service Project Inc	$1,001,000	1	5%
East Tennessee State University Foundation	$485,000	3	2%
City of Kingsport Tennessee	$362,750	5	n/a
Isaiah 117 House	$300,000	1	2%
Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tn	$243,098	3	0%
The Chamber of Commerce	$204,826	2	27%
Barter Foundation Inc State Theatre of Virginia	$178,022	6	1%
Kingsport Chamber Foundation Inc	$174,332	6	1%
Kingsport Area Chamber of Commerce	$156,225	6	6%

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All grantees of Eastman Credit Union by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Ballad Health Foundation	$1,411,518	4	28%
Appalachia Service Project Inc	$1,001,000	1	5%
East Tennessee State University Foundation	$485,000	3	2%
City of Kingsport Tennessee	$362,750	5	n/a
Isaiah 117 House	$300,000	1	2%
Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tn	$243,098	3	0%
The Chamber of Commerce	$204,826	2	27%
Barter Foundation Inc State Theatre of Virginia	$178,022	6	1%
Kingsport Chamber Foundation Inc	$174,332	6	1%
Kingsport Area Chamber of Commerce	$156,225	6	6%
K-Play Sports Council Inc	$150,000	2	n/a
United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc	$128,306	6	1%
Eo Companies	$120,750	6	1%
United Way of East Tennessee Highlands Inc	$116,300	6	4%
The Salvation Army	$111,708	6	n/a
Young Women's Christian Association Northeast Tn and Southwest Va	$109,040	4	3%
Petworks Animal Services Inc	$100,000	2	7%
Birthplace of Country Music Inc	$100,000	6	1%
Providence Medical Clinic of Kingsport	$98,000	6	6%
Greater Kingsport Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc	$92,043	6	0%
Great Texas Balloon Race Inc	$85,000	4	5%
Longview Arboretum and Nature Center Inc	$83,000	3	5%
The Coalition for Kids Inc	$75,238	5	2%
Healing Hands Health Center Inc	$62,043	2	0%
Summit Leadership Foundation	$60,000	1	n/a
Frontier Health Foundation	$56,000	3	8%
The Longview Chamber of Commerce	$50,000	2	3%
Tennessee Financial Literacy Commission	$50,000	1	n/a
United Way of Bristol Tn-Va Inc	$42,160	6	0%
Martin House Childrens Advocacy Center	$42,000	2	1%
United Way of Hawkins County Inc	$42,000	6	5%
Symphony of the Mountains	$40,000	4	2%
Boones Creek Historical Trust	$35,000	1	22%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$33,000	1	0%
Bristol Chamber of Commerce	$32,258	3	1%
Holston Habitat for Humanity Inc	$32,000	1	1%
Keystone Dental Care Inc	$27,000	3	1%
Kiwanis Club of Kingsport Foundation	$25,750	1	32%
Young Mens Christian Association	$25,000	3	0%
East Tennessee State University	$25,000	1	n/a
First Tennessee Development District Foundation	$25,000	1	1%
H O P E - Help Our Potential Evolve - Inc	$25,000	4	n/a
Unicoi County Chamber of Commerce	$25,000	1	12%
Rotary International-Kingsport Rotary Cl	$25,000	1	n/a
Greene County United Way Inc	$24,000	2	2%
Friends in Need Health Center Inc	$23,500	2	1%
Covenant Counseling Center Inc	$22,500	3	8%
Regional East Texas Food Bank	$21,568	2	0%
Boys and Girls Club of the Big Pines	$21,000	2	1%
Holston Conference United Methodist Church Foundation	$20,539	1	n/a
Holston Conference	$20,539	1	n/a
Johnson City Area Home Builders Association	$20,000	2	9%
Family Promise of Greater Johnson City Inc	$20,000	1	4%
Appalachian Highlands Community Dental Charities	$20,000	1	2%
Tusculum University	$20,000	1	0%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of East Tennessee Inc	$20,000	2	1%
Providence Academy	$15,500	1	0%
Local Business Recovery Fund	$15,000	1	n/a
The Bays Mountain Park Association	$15,000	1	1%
Children Exceeding Expectations Inc	$12,000	1	10%
Junior League of Kingsport Inc	$12,000	1	24%
Tennessee Credit Union League Inc	$11,000	1	n/a
Johnson City Public Schools Foundation	$10,500	1	7%
Longview Act	$10,500	1	3%
Northeast State Community College Foundation	$10,000	1	2%
Carter Family Memorial Music Center	$10,000	1	4%
Heartisans Marketplace	$10,000	1	2%
Town of Abingdon	$10,000	1	n/a
Gregg County Historical Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Newgate United Methodist Mission of Longview Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Speedway Children's Charities	$10,000	1	n/a
Appalachian Highlands Economic Development Partnership Inc	$9,989	1	2%
Girls Incorporated of Kingsport	$8,088	1	1%
Greater Longview United Way Inc	$8,000	1	1%
Northeast Tenn Assoc of Realtors	$7,500	1	1%
Boys and Girls Club of Elizabethton Carter County Inc	$7,315	1	1%
Lobo Football Booster Club Inc	$7,000	1	2%
Boys & Girls Club of Johnson City Washington County	$6,543	1	1%
City of Elizabethton	$6,500	1	n/a
Appalachian Fair Association Inc	$6,000	1	0%
Young Mens Christian Association Incunicoi County Family YMCA Inc	$5,750	1	0%
Hawkins County Schools	$5,300	1	n/a
CASA of Northeast Tennessee	$5,043	1	2%

Eastman Credit Union supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 65 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 65.

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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.

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

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.

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About Eastman Credit Union

How much does Eastman Credit Union give?: Eastman Credit Union reported 39 itemized grants totaling $919,526, out of $1,186,142 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Eastman Credit Union fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (24%), Public Safety & Disaster (18%), Arts & Culture (11%).
Who are Eastman Credit Union's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Ballad Health Foundation ($1.4M), Appalachia Service Project Inc ($1.0M), East Tennessee State University Foundation ($485k).
Does Eastman Credit Union fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Eastman Credit Union?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mountain States Health Alliance, Food City Charitable Foundation, Wellmont Health System.
Where is Eastman Credit Union based?: Eastman Credit Union is based in TN.