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Filmtech Foundation Inc at a glance

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Filmtech Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$132k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Education$225kReligion$136kFood & Nutrition$78kYouth Development$69kHealth$63kHuman Services$32kArts & Culture$20kPhilanthropy$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k33 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $70k
$1,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOD ON FOOT FOUNDATION$15,000
ST PATRICK'S CHURCH$15,000
ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$10,000
ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$10,000
ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$10,000
FOOD ON FOOT FOUNDATION$10,000
GIRLS INC$5,000
YOUNG LIFE$5,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$5,000
ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$5,000
ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$5,000
ENCORE THEATRICAL COMPANY$3,000
MORRISTOWN HAMBLEN HOSPITAL FOUNDAT$2,500
ROTARY CLUB$2,500
UNITED WAY HAMBLEN COUNTY$2,500
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 (FY22–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LAKEWAY CASA INC: $1k → 15%LAKEWAY CASA INC: $500 → 15%LAKEWAY CASA INC: $500 → 15%LAKEWAY CASA INC: $300 → 15%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 80% of Filmtech Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in TN; by stated purpose, 20%.

Filmtech Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$631k · 23 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
11

Total granted

$631k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+37%

Still filing today

57%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthPublic BenefitOther
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

  • AS
    ALL SAINTS' EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $191k · revenue +75%
  • HR
    HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $28k · revenue +109%
  • ET
    ENCORE THEATRICAL COMPANY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • FO
    FOOD ON FOOT
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF MORRISTOWN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -49%
  • ISAIAH 117 HOUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +63%
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
Hickory Hollow Christian School

School

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2
His Thousand Hills Inc

Operation of christian facilities and related youth camps.

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3
Tennessee Christian Preparatory School

Educate children in a christ like manner

Education
4
The Christian Home of Johnstown Inc

Temporary housing for needy children

Health
5
Hillsdale Christian School Corporation

Providing pre-k through high school education by integrating christian faith with academic knowledge

Education
6
Hesed Christian Ministries Inc

Residential care and treatment of emotionally and physically neglected children.

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7
Hickory Christian Academy Inc

Education for grades k thru 12

Education
8
Maryland Baptist Aged Home

Long-term care facility for the elderly

Human Services
9
Tlc Huntley Preschool Inc

Provide preschool and daycare services while promoting christian beliefs

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10
Harrells Christian Academy

The mission of harrells christian academy is to prepare each student for higher education within an environment that instills judeo-christian values, fosters self-discipline, enhances creativity, and promises a love and respect for…

Education
11
East Tennessee Christian Home Inc

The Home was organized to provide for the health, welfare and benefit of children whose parents or guardians are unable to care for them. The Home offers residential care and onsite academic

Human Services
12
Hope Hospice & Palliative Care Inc

To provide hospice care for persons at the end of life so that they may live as fully and comfortably as possible and to offer continuing support to the bereaved.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helen Ross Mcnabb Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST PATRICK'S CHURCH: $132,505 · OtherST PATRICK'S CHURCHFOOD ON FOOT FOUNDATION: $61,000 · OtherFOOD ON FOOT FOUNDATIONFRIENDS OF HOSPICE-SERENITY HOUSE: $29,650 · OtherFRIENDS OF HOSPICE-SERENITY HOUSEBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $28,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBGIRLS INC: $19,825 · OtherGIRLS INCROSE CENTER: $13,225 · Other+20 more: $57,333 · Other+20 moreALL SAINTS' EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC: $190,750 · EducationALL SAINTS' EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INCLENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY: $31,000 · EducationLENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY+1 more: $2,500 · EducationHELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION: $27,500 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthYOUNG LIFE: $19,000 · Youth DevelopmentKINGSWOOD HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP HOPE OF EAST TN: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentENCORE THEATRICAL COMPANY: $20,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF HAMBLEN COUNTY INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyHAMBLEN COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE & ACHIEVEMENT: $1,000 · PhilanthropyMINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION TEMPORARY SHELTER: $9,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$342,038Education$224,250Health$27,600Youth Development$21,500Arts & Culture$20,000Philanthropy$16,000Housing & Shelter$9,500

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 budgetALL SAINTS' EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC: $190,750 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetLENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY: $31,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetENCORE THEATRICAL COMPANY: $20,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $19,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF HAMBLEN COUNTY INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION TEMPORARY SHELTER: $9,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMORRISTOWN HAMBLEN CENTRAL SERVICES INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDAILY BREAD COMMUNITY KITCHEN: $7,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF MORRISTOWN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetISAIAH 117 HOUSE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStepping Out Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKEWAY CASA INC: $2,300 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKINGSWOOD HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAMBLEN COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE & ACHIEVEMENT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOSPICE OF THE LAKEWAY AREA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALPS ADULT DAY SERVICES: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 ALL SAINTS' EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds LENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ENCORE THEATRICAL COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF HAMBLEN COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION TEMPORARY SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds MORRISTOWN HAMBLEN CENTRAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds DAILY BREAD COMMUNITY KITCHEN ↗
  • Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF MORRISTOWN INC ↗
  • Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Stepping Out Inc ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LAKEWAY CASA INC ↗
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds KINGSWOOD HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP HOPE OF EAST TN ↗
  • Who funds HAMBLEN COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE & ACHIEVEMENT ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF HOSPICE OF THE LAKEWAY AREA INC ↗
  • Who funds ALPS ADULT DAY SERVICES ↗

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.

Jefferson Federal Cha…Wallace FoundationThe Rogers Foundation…East Tennessee Founda…The Bank of America C…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile FoundationFidelity Investments …
Jefferson Federal Charitable FoundationTN20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jefferson Federal Charitable Foundation · Wallace Foundation · The Rogers Foundation Inc · East Tennessee Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Filmtech Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Filmtech Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 38 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-PF 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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