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Heavenly Treasure

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$47k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it funds
0176% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$119kHuman Services$117kFood & Nutrition$97kEducation$25kHousing & Shelter$5kInternational$1kArts & Culture$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$11,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$806k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$12,460
CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION$12,000
APOSTLES OF JESUS$11,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
UNBOUND$5,819
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.

US giving: 77% of grant dollars ($408k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 23% that went abroad ($119k) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $4k → 12%CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $11k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

OR
OH
PA
CA
MO
MD
TN
DC
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 23% of all-years giving ($119k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Colombia$114k · 8 grants
Mexico$5k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 9% of Heavenly Treasure’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Heavenly Treasurelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 30% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$484k · 10 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
10

Total granted

$484k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+50%

Still filing today

30%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalArts & CultureEducationHealthOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    8× · 2017–2024 · $114k
  • FOOD FOR THE POOR INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $97k · revenue -56%
  • CD
    CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • SD
    ST DOMINIC CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $11k
  • KC
    KNOXVILLE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
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
05the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $114,110 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAPOSTLES OF JESUS: $79,000 · OtherAPOSTLES OF JESUSUNBOUND: $49,168 · OtherUNBOUNDROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF KNOXVILLE: $25,000 · OtherROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF KNOXVILLEIndividual grant recipient: $12,460 · OtherST DOMINIC CATHOLIC CHURCH: $11,000 · Other+9 more: $18,625 · Other+9 moreCORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $95,000 · Human ServicesCORAZON DE VIDA FOUND…CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $3,750 · Human ServicesFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $97,461 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR IN…ROTARY FOUNDATION OF KNOXVILLE: $19,500 · EducationKNOXVILLE OPERA COMPANY: $1,050 · Arts & CultureBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 · Health
Other$309,363Human Services$98,750International$97,461Education$19,500Arts & Culture$1,050Health$1,000

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 budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $97,461 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetROTARY FOUNDATION OF KNOXVILLE: $19,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetCENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $3,750 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetKNOXVILLE OPERA COMPANY: $1,050 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 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 FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
  • Who funds CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROTARY FOUNDATION OF KNOXVILLE ↗
  • Who funds CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds KNOXVILLE OPERA COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds DIOCESAN MIGRANT & REFUGEE SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED 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.

East Tennessee FoundationTN13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Tennessee Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Heavenly Treasure funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Heavenly Treasure. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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