· Public charity
Elgin Children's Foundation Inc
Serving the youngest, poorest, most vulnerable, and most rurally isolated children in designated counties in east tn, eastern ky, and southwest va by funding programs focused on academics, dental health, child protection, and discipleship.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $659k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $690k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHEAST SOUTH-CENTRAL EDUCATION COOP | $145,491 |
| CLAY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $124,000 |
| EMMANUEL METHODIST CHURCH | $95,330 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC | $91,099 |
| KNOX COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $64,436 |
| LAKE CUMBERLAND CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $60,000 |
| SCOTT COUNTY SCHOOLS | $59,780 |
| CUMBERLAND VALLEY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $50,000 |
| MACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH | $48,820 |
| CHILDREN'S BIBLE MINISTRIES | $47,670 |
| NEW TESTMENT BAPTIST CHURCH | $46,510 |
| OWSLEY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $40,050 |
| MIDDLESBORO INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS | $39,000 |
| BELL COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $36,377 |
| LESLIE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $36,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $461k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
38 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SSSOUTHEAST SOUTH-CENTRAL EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE5× · 2020–2024 · $692k · revenue +87%
- TCTHE CUMBERLAND VALLEY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $255k · revenue +51%
- CACHILD ABUSE REPORTING AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER OF SOUTHWEST VA5× · 2020–2024 · $214k · revenue +143% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- TCTHE CHURCH AT STERCHI HILLSone grant, 2020 · $67k
- BFBLUEFIELD FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $51k
- MBMIDDLESBORO BOARD OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2020 · $37k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To combat child sexual and physical abuse by providing services to children and families in a safe enviroment.
Providing advocacy services for child abuse victims.
Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation
To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.
Provide a coordinated response to concerns of child abuse in a child-focused environment, offering prevention, evaluation and treatment to children and families.
To coordinate a collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach to child abuse cases. To provide private forensic interviews and medical exams in a child-friendly environment.
Provide advocacy services for abused children in Central Alabama.
Provide services for abused children
To provide a coordinated, child focused, multi-disciplinary response to child sexual and serious physical abuse in st clair, monroe, and randolph counties.
To provide court advocacy services for abused children.
Walker County Childrens Advocacy Center, Inc. will provide services to child victims of physical and sexual abuse, severely neglected children and children who have witnessed a violent crime. The Center will work every day to try and stop…
Effective prosecution of child abuses, providing therapy and education for the abused, and providing a safe haven for the abused.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Abuse Reporting and Enforcement Center of Southwest Va and the most unlike its peers is Patterson Foundation. 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 25 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
22 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. 22 of the 56 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds SOUTHEAST SOUTH-CENTRAL EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds THE CUMBERLAND VALLEY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ABUSE REPORTING AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER OF SOUTHWEST VA ↗
- Who funds LAKE CUMBERLAND CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN LIFE QUALITY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds CAMPBELL COUNTY CHILDRENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS BIBLE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS CENTER OF THE CUMBERLAND ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ADVOCACY PROGRAMS OF THE BLUE RIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Campbell County Christian Learning Center ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY RIVER CHILD ADVOCACY CENTE ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN LITERACY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Childrens Advocacy Center of Virginia ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE 9TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds BLOUNT COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NURTURE THE NEXT FKA PREVENT CHILD ABUSE TENNESSEE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Children's Alliance Inc · East Tennessee Foundation · Tennessee Chapter of Children's Advocacy · Save The Children Federation Inc · Jobs for Kentucky's Graduates Inc · The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004 · Share Our Strength · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Elgin Children's Foundation Inc 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.
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.
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