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First Tennessee Development District Foundation

To administer programs that address crucial social issues in northeast tennessee, including food insecurity and substandard housing in older low-income adults, workforce development for high school students, and childhood literacy.

$8.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$7.9M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$5,161,737
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,161,737
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2023 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations First Tennessee Development District Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$7.9M0%
FY20242$3.8M50%
FY20231$82kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Employment$7.6MCommunity Improvement$4.2M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ballad Health$7,607,02924%
First Tennessee Development District$4,206,6413n/a

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About First Tennessee Development District Foundation

How much does First Tennessee Development District Foundation give?
First Tennessee Development District Foundation reported 2 itemized grants totaling $7,888,814, out of $8,213,710 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
What does First Tennessee Development District Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (64%), Community Improvement (36%).
Who are First Tennessee Development District Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Ballad Health ($7.6M), First Tennessee Development District ($4.2M).
Does First Tennessee Development District Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is First Tennessee Development District Foundation based?
First Tennessee Development District Foundation 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 2 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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