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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 FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$193k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $590k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $956k
$31,292
Median grant
4
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHEAST SOUTH-CENTRAL EDUCATION COOP$193,287
CLAY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS$134,000
EMMANUEL METHODIST CHURCH$100,090
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC$96,558
LESLIE COUNTY PUBLIX SCHOOLS (BOE)$94,329
OUR FATHER'S HOUSE$69,000
KNOX COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION$63,000
BELL COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION$54,500
MACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH$51,260
CHILDREN'S BIBLE MINISTRIES$50,000
CUMBERLAND VALLEY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$50,000
NEW TESTMENT BAPTIST CHURCH$48,830
OWSLEY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION$46,630
SCOTT COUNTY SCHOOLS$45,875
MIDDLESBORO INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS$44,550
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $533k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER 9TH DISTRICT OF TN: $20k → 10%CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF TENNESSEE: $13k → 14%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER-HIGHLANDS COMM: $10k → 11%LAKE CUMBERLAND CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $60k → 20%CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER 9TH DISTRICT OF TN: $20k → 10%CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF TENNESSEE: $8k → 14%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER-HIGHLANDS COMM: $10k → 11%LAKE CUMBERLAND CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $60k → 20%CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER 9TH DISTRICT OF TN: $20k → 10%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER-HIGHLANDS COMM: $10k → 11%LAKE CUMBERLAND CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $60k → 20%CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER 9TH DISTRICT OF TN: $10k → 10%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER-HIGHLANDS COMM: $10k → 11%LAKE CUMBERLAND CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $20k → 20%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER-HIGHLANDS COMM: $10k → 11%LAKE CUMBERLAND CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $13k → 20%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER-HIGHLANDS COMM: $10k → 11%LAKE CUMBERLAND CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 20%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF THE CUMBERLANDS: $35k → 22%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF THE CUMBERLANDS: $30k → 22%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF THE CUMBERLANDS: $30k → 22%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF THE CUMBERLANDS: $22k → 22%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF THE CUMBERLANDS: $22k → 22%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF THE CUMBERLANDS: $22k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.8M · 40 repeat orgs$528k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
15

Total granted

$6.8M
$298k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+98%

Still filing today

48%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SS
    SOUTHEAST SOUTH-CENTRAL EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $885k · revenue +87%
  • TC
    THE CUMBERLAND VALLEY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $305k · revenue +51%
  • CA
    CHILD ABUSE REPORTING AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER OF SOUTHWEST VA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $244k · revenue +143% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CHURCH AT STERCHI HILLS
    one grant, 2020 · $67k
  • BF
    BLUEFIELD FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $51k
  • MB
    MIDDLESBORO BOARD OF EDUCATION
    one grant, 2020 · $37k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Child Advocacy Center

To combat child sexual and physical abuse by providing services to children and families in a safe enviroment.

Human Services
2
Children's Advocacy Center of Ottawa Countyinc

Providing advocacy services for child abuse victims.

Crime & Legal
3
Child Advocacy Center of Cullman Inc

Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation

Human Services
4
The Child Advocacy Center of Anderson Co Tn

To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.

Human Services
5
Northern Kentucky Children's Advocacy Center Inc

Provide a coordinated response to concerns of child abuse in a child-focused environment, offering prevention, evaluation and treatment to children and families.

Health
6
The Childrens Advocacy Center of Cleveland County

To coordinate a collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach to child abuse cases. To provide private forensic interviews and medical exams in a child-friendly environment.

Crime & Legal
7
Central Alabama Regional Child Advocacy Center

Provide advocacy services for abused children in Central Alabama.

Crime & Legal
8
Childrens Advocacy Center Inc

Provide services for abused children

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9
St Clair County Child Advocacy Center

To provide a coordinated, child focused, multi-disciplinary response to child sexual and serious physical abuse in st clair, monroe, and randolph counties.

Crime & Legal
10
Upper Cumberland Child Advocacy Center

To provide court advocacy services for abused children.

Human Services
11
Walker County Childrens Advocacy Center Inc

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…

Human Services
12
Robertson County Child Advocacy Cen

Effective prosecution of child abuses, providing therapy and education for the abused, and providing a safe haven for the abused.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Abuse Reporting and Enforcement Center of Southwest Va; 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.
04the grantee network

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 61 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
19/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLAY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $572,728 · OtherCLAY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLSBELL COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $328,986 · OtherBELL COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONEMMANUEL METHODIST CHURCH: $308,041 · OtherEMMANUEL METHODIST CHURCHKNOX COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION: $286,782 · OtherKNOX COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATIONMIDDLESBORO INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS: $261,893 · OtherMIDDLESBORO INDEPENDENT SCHOOLSMACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH: $254,340 · OtherMACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCHLESLIE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $213,421 · OtherCHILDRENS BIBLE MINISTRIES INC: $207,070 · OtherALDER SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH: $181,800 · OtherOWSLEY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION: $166,780 · OtherSCOTT COUNTY SCHOOLS: $158,330 · Other+33 more: $1,667,676 · Other+33 moreTHE CUMBERLAND VALLEY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $305,000 · Crime & LegalTHE CUMBERLA…CHILD ABUSE REPORTING AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER OF SOUTHWEST VA: $244,000 · Crime & LegalCHILD ABUSE …SAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $147,500 · Crime & LegalSAFE HARBOR …KENTUCKY RIVER CHILD ADVOCACY CENTE: $113,750 · Crime & LegalKENTUCKY RIV…BLOUNT COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $60,000 · Crime & LegalBLOUNT COUNT…+1 more: $28,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHEAST SOUTH-CENTRAL EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE: $885,291 · EducationSOUTHEAST SO…NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $523,601 · Philanthropy+1 more: $17,756 · PhilanthropyLAKE CUMBERLAND CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $222,500 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS CENTER OF THE CUMBERLAND: $160,500 · Human ServicesTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE 9TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesChildrens Advocacy Center of Virginia: $68,000 · Human ServicesTENNESSEE CHAPTER OF CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY: $20,000 · Human ServicesAPPALACHIAN LIFE QUALITY INITIATIVE: $203,398 · Health+1 more: $4,191 · HealthCAMPBELL COUNTY CHILDRENS CENTER: $190,000 · Youth Development
Other$4,607,847Crime & Legal$898,250Education$885,291Philanthropy$541,357Human Services$541,000Health$207,589Youth Development$190,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTHEAST SOUTH-CENTRAL EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE: $885,291 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $523,601 over 6y, 0.0% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 CHILDRENS BIBLE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds APPALACHIAN LIFE QUALITY INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds CAMPBELL COUNTY CHILDRENS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS CENTER OF THE CUMBERLAND ↗
  • Who funds SAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS ADVOCACY PROGRAMS OF THE BLUE RIDGE INC ↗
  • Who funds KENTUCKY RIVER CHILD ADVOCACY CENTE ↗
  • Who funds Campbell County Christian Learning Center ↗
  • Who funds APPALACHIAN LITERACY INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE 9TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC ↗
  • Who funds Childrens Advocacy Center of Virginia ↗
  • Who funds BLOUNT COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Elgin Children's Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elgin Children's Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Elgin Children's Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Elgin Children's Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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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