Tennessee · Private foundation
Eastman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $330k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2024
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $120,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 182
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Eastman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 91% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $610k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 6 | $330k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $669k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $573k | 65% |
| FY2021 | 127 | $1.9M | 44% |
| FY2020 | 147 | $1.8M | 45% |
| FY2019 | 138 | $1.7M | 17% |
| FY2018 | 179 | $3.7M | 33% |
| FY2017 | 182 | $2.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Mission School Inc | $1,010,000 | 2 | 16% |
| Kingsport Chamber Foundation Inc | $707,798 | 5 | 16% |
| Streamworks Inc | $518,380 | 2 | n/a |
| United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc | $509,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | $500,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Institute of Chemical Engineers | $482,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tn | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Greater Longview United Way Inc | $156,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Biobuilder Educational Foundation | $140,502 | 2 | 25% |
| National Merit Scholarship Corporation | $137,225 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 151 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 254 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Eastman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 123 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: The Crain Foundation · Rosa May Griffin Foundation · East Texas Communities Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Wellmont Health System · East Tennessee Foundation · United Way Galveston County Mainland Inc · United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc · Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · Speedway Children's Charities · The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont · Eastman Credit Union
How this is measured
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About Eastman Foundation
- How much does Eastman Foundation give?
- Eastman Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $329,885 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 182 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Eastman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (37%), Philanthropy (9%), Science & Tech (9%).
- Who are Eastman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mountain Mission School Inc ($1.0M), Kingsport Chamber Foundation Inc ($708k), Streamworks Inc ($518k).
- Does Eastman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Eastman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Eastman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Crain Foundation, Rosa May Griffin Foundation, East Texas Communities Foundation.
- Where is Eastman Foundation based?
- Eastman Foundation is based in TN.
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