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Tennessee · 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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
36
Grants FY2025
34
Organizations funded FY2024
15%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$31,292
Largest grant, FY2025
$193,287
Organizations funded a year
27 to 34
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$18M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Elgin Children's Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalPhilanthropyHealthOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving35$1.5M14%
FY202434$1.3M15%
FY202334$1.2M18%
FY202232$1.2M31%
FY202130$918k23%
FY202027$1.2Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$2.8MCrime & Legal$1.3MReligion$1.3MPhilanthropy$427kHealth$190kYouth Development$160kHuman Services$139k

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Southeast South-Central Educational Cooperative$885,29166%
Bell County Educational Foundation$328,9866n/a
The Cumberland Valley Children's Advocacy Center Inc$305,00069%
Middlesboro Independent Schools$261,8936n/a
Macedonia Baptist Church$254,3406n/a
Child Abuse Reporting and Enforcement Center of Southwest Va$244,000628%
Lake Cumberland Children's Advocacy Center Inc$222,500611%
Childrens Bible Ministries Inc$207,07056%
Appalachian Life Quality Initiative$203,39867%
Campbell County Childrens Center$190,00066%
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All grantees of Elgin Children's Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Southeast South-Central Educational Cooperative$885,29166%
Bell County Educational Foundation$328,9866n/a
The Cumberland Valley Children's Advocacy Center Inc$305,00069%
Middlesboro Independent Schools$261,8936n/a
Macedonia Baptist Church$254,3406n/a
Child Abuse Reporting and Enforcement Center of Southwest Va$244,000628%
Lake Cumberland Children's Advocacy Center Inc$222,500611%
Childrens Bible Ministries Inc$207,07056%
Appalachian Life Quality Initiative$203,39867%
Campbell County Childrens Center$190,00066%
Owsley County Board of Education$166,7804n/a
Childrens Center of the Cumberland$160,50065%
Safe Harbor Child Advocacy Center Inc$147,50064%
Clay County Board of Education$137,3333n/a
Childrens Advocacy Programs of the Blue Ridge Inc$127,50065%
Kentucky River Child Advocacy Cente$113,75066%
Campbell County Christian Learning Center$106,770296%
Appalachian Literacy Initiative$93,95548%
The Child Advocacy Center of the 9th Judicial District Inc$70,00043%
Whitley Co Board of Ed$68,5094n/a
Childrens Advocacy Center of Virginia$68,00064%
The Church at Sterchi Hills$66,6001n/a
Central Presbyterian Church$62,0004n/a
Blount County Children's Advocacy Center Inc$60,00061%
Nurture the Next Fka Prevent Child Abuse Tennessee$28,00030%
Central Presbyterian Church$20,2041n/a
Tennessee Chapter of Children's Advocacy$20,00022%
Patterson Foundation$17,75611%
Scripture Memory Mountain Mission$16,22521%
The Foothills Ministries$12,3871n/a
Williamsburg Independent Board of Education$7,2901n/a
Souls Harbor Church of God$5,8621n/a
Mel Leaman Free Clinic of Smyth Co$4,19110%

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Elgin Children's Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSoutheast South-Central Educational Cooperative: $885,291 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetThe Cumberland Valley Children's Advocacy Center Inc: $305,000 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetChild Abuse Reporting and Enforcement Center of Southwest Va: $244,000 over 6y, 28% of budgetLake Cumberland Children's Advocacy Center Inc: $222,500 over 6y, 11% of budgetChildrens Bible Ministries Inc: $207,070 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetAppalachian Life Quality Initiative: $203,398 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetCampbell County Childrens Center: $190,000 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetChildrens Center of the Cumberland: $160,500 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetSafe Harbor Child Advocacy Center Inc: $147,500 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetChildrens Advocacy Programs of the Blue Ridge Inc: $127,500 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetKentucky River Child Advocacy Cente: $113,750 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetCampbell County Christian Learning Center: $106,770 over 2y, 96% of budgetAppalachian Literacy Initiative: $93,955 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetThe Child Advocacy Center of the 9th Judicial District Inc: $70,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetChildrens Advocacy Center of Virginia: $68,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetBlount County Children's Advocacy Center Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetNurture the Next Fka Prevent Child Abuse Tennessee: $28,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTennessee Chapter of Children's Advocacy: $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetPatterson Foundation: $17,756 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetScripture Memory Mountain Mission: $16,225 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMel Leaman Free Clinic of Smyth Co: $4,191 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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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 21.

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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.

National Children's A…East Tennessee Founda…Tennessee Chapter of …Save The Children Fed…Jobs for Kentucky's G…The Steele-Reese Foun…Share Our StrengthNatl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
National Children's Alliance IncDC19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Elgin Children's Foundation Inc

How much does Elgin Children's Foundation Inc give?
Elgin Children's Foundation Inc reported 36 grants totaling $1,580,335 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 34 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Elgin Children's Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Crime & Legal (21%), Religion (20%).
Who are Elgin Children's Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Southeast South-Central Educational Cooperative ($885k), Bell County Educational Foundation ($329k), The Cumberland Valley Children's Advocacy Center Inc ($305k).
Does Elgin Children's Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Elgin Children's Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Children's Alliance Inc, East Tennessee Foundation, Tennessee Chapter of Children's Advocacy.
Where is Elgin Children's Foundation Inc based?
Elgin Children's Foundation Inc is based in TN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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