· Private foundation
Jane L Pettway Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| INTERFAITH HEALTH CLINIC INC | $12,000 |
| SAFESPACE INC | $12,000 |
| VOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER | $12,000 |
| SERTOMA CENTER INC | $12,000 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,700 |
| FRIENDS OF THE PARROTT-WOOD MEMORIAL LIB | $11,000 |
| CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST | $11,000 |
| Haven House Inc | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Public Library at Tellico Village | $9,150 |
| EMORY VALLEY CENTER | $9,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 62 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jane L Pettway Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jane L Pettway Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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