· Private foundation
Jane L Pettway Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $160k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC | $23,000 |
| ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF KNOX COUNTY LIBRARY | $18,000 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES | $12,000 |
| VOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER | $12,000 |
| INTERFAITH HEALTH CLINIC INC | $12,000 |
| SAFESPACE INC | $12,000 |
| SERTOMA CENTER INC | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,700 |
| CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST | $11,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE PARROTT-WOOD MEMORIAL LIB | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Haven House Inc | $10,000 |
| Public Library at Tellico Village | $9,150 |
| EMORY VALLEY CENTER | $9,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $296k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
53 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- HRHELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $203k · revenue +68%
- VMVOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $85k · revenue +53%
- SCSERTOMA CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $83k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- KCKNOX COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2020 · $25k
- AHA HAND UP FOR WOMEN KCCWJCone grant, 2021 · $12k
- KAKNOX AREA RESCUE MINISTRIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +47%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our Mission at Welcome House Knoxville is to share the love of Jesus through the ministries of hospitality and friendship. We provide safe and loving homes for individuals and families in transition to permanent housing.
The Mend House is a sober living community for men, in Knoxville, Tn. which empowers them to gain control over their actions, decisions and choices. The Mend House allows men to enjoy clean, sober and stable housing for up to 2 years while…
By creating a safe and structured two year residential program the Hope House of Tennessee will aim to equip and empower personal and educational growth economic self-sufficiency and a deeper understanding of Christs unconditional love.
The shelter's primary purpose is to reduce the effects of domestic violence in the communities it serves by providing housing, clothing, food, and legal aide for victims of domestic violence.
Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…
The mission of haven house family services center is to eliminate violence against women, men, and children through empowerment, education, social action, and support services
To provide affordable housing to low and moderate income persons in east tennessee through first-time homebuyer education; assist with mortgage loans, downpayments, and closing costs; build new single family housing; develop multi-family…
Rahab House is deeply committed to the rescue, refuge, and restoration of human trafficking survivors. We provide comprehensive support that encompasses immediate safety and connections to long-term restorative care in alignment with the…
The center's mission is to advocate and support social change that will result in non-violent relationships, homes and communities through public education, direct services, a haven and programs related to the issues of domestic and sexual…
To assist the needs of individuals, help them navigate past obstacles that prevent them from getting out of the cycle of homelessness and poverty, and assist them with achieving independent living.
Empowering, advocating, and bringing hope to end domestic violence, human trafficking, and sexual assault.
The mission of hope house is to prevent abuse and provide support to victims of domestic and sexual violence. our service area includes sauk, columbia, juneau, marquette, and adams counties.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Knox Area Rescue Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Restoration House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SERTOMA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPE RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAFESPACE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY PANTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL DUNN CENTER ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESTORATION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds EMORY VALLEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SEEED INC ↗
- Who funds STREET HOPE TN ↗
- Who funds FOCUS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: East Tennessee Foundation · Gene & Florence Monday Foundation Inc · Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee · United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc · Thompson Charitable Foundation · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · The Melrose Foundation · Lawson Family Foundation · Bill and Crissy Haslam Foundation · Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc · Graham Foundation · Akima Club Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Jane L Pettway Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.