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Jane L Pettway Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$334k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
40
Grants FY2025
38
Organizations funded FY2024
5%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$23,000
Organizations funded a year
31 to 51
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$7.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Jane L Pettway Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving40$334k5%
FY202438$334k5%
FY202342$385k10%
FY202245$490k4%
FY202151$518k41%
FY202031$401kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$638kHuman Services$445kEducation$413kFood & Nutrition$191kCrime & Legal$161kHousing & Shelter$153kEmployment$118kReligion$100kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees
All grantees of Jane L Pettway Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Helen Ross McNabb Center Inc$202,93060%
Volunteer Ministry Center$85,00061%
Sertoma Center Inc$82,80060%
Interfaith Health Center$81,80060%
Hope Resource Center$81,70063%
Safespace Incorporated$80,40063%
Knoxville Family Justice Center$77,65264%
Episcopal School of Knoxville$67,50040%
Hospitality Pantries Inc$58,68050%
Legal Aid of East Tennessee$57,00060%
Michael Dunn Center$53,40060%
Knoxville Leadership Foundation Inc$49,95060%
The Restoration House$49,80056%
Friends of the Parrott-Wood Memorial Library$48,0005n/a
Emory Valley Center Inc$43,85060%
Seeed Inc$33,70052%
Street Hope Tn$31,00031%
Compassion Coalition Inc$26,4506n/a
Focus Ministries$26,00032%
Childhelp Inc$21,30030%
Emerald Youth Foundation$20,00030%
Haven House$19,00021%
Bridge Refugee Services Inc$10,00020%
Knox Area Rescue Ministries Inc$10,00010%
Raising a Voice$9,00021%
Family Promise of Knoxville$8,00021%
St John's Cathedral$5,4001n/a
Free Medical Clinic of America$5,0001n/a
Fostering Hope Tn Inc$4,00012%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jane L Pettway Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHelen Ross McNabb Center Inc: $202,930 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVolunteer Ministry Center: $85,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSertoma Center Inc: $82,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetInterfaith Health Center: $81,800 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHope Resource Center: $81,700 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetSafespace Incorporated: $80,400 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetKnoxville Family Justice Center: $77,652 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetEpiscopal School of Knoxville: $67,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHospitality Pantries Inc: $58,680 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLegal Aid of East Tennessee: $57,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMichael Dunn Center: $53,400 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKnoxville Leadership Foundation Inc: $49,950 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Restoration House: $49,800 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetEmory Valley Center Inc: $43,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSeeed Inc: $33,700 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetStreet Hope Tn: $31,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFocus Ministries: $26,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetChildhelp Inc: $21,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEmerald Youth Foundation: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHaven House: $19,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBridge Refugee Services Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKnox Area Rescue Ministries Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRaising a Voice: $9,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFamily Promise of Knoxville: $8,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFostering Hope Tn Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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 FoundationTN44× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Jane L Pettway Foundation

How much does Jane L Pettway Foundation give?
Jane L Pettway Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $334,276 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 51 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Jane L Pettway Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (26%), Human Services (18%), Education (17%).
Who are Jane L Pettway Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Helen Ross McNabb Center Inc ($203k), Volunteer Ministry Center ($85k), Sertoma Center Inc ($83k).
Does Jane L Pettway Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jane L Pettway Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jane L Pettway Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Tennessee Foundation, Gene & Florence Monday Foundation Inc, Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee.
Where is Jane L Pettway Foundation based?
Jane L Pettway 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 62 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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