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Jefferson Federal Charitable Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$455k
Granted FY2020
18
Grants FY2020
17
Organizations funded FY2020
29%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$190,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 25
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 29% of the organizations Jefferson Federal Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
EducationYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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
FY202017$455k29%
FY201925$376k36%
FY201821$241k62%
FY201723$482kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Health$365kCrime & Legal$272kHousing & Shelter$173kEducation$157kHuman Services$122kArts & Culture$51kPublic Safety & Disaster$51kRecreation & Sports$50kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 23 grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($741k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Jefferson Federal Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMinisterial Association Temporary Shelter: $150,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetFriends of Hospice of the Lakeway Area Inc: $115,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetSenior Citizens Center Inc: $62,185 over 3y, 12% of budgetCease Inc: $57,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCornerstone Academy Inc Lakeway Christian Schools: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLions Volunteer Blind Industries Inc: $49,183 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUnited Way of Hamblen County Inc: $44,900 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetKingswood Home for Children Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetRose Center and Council for the Arts Inc: $32,500 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetHelping Hands Clinic Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetTapestry for Women Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetAll Saints' Episcopal School Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMorristown Area Chamber of Commerce: $24,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetKnoxville Opera Company: $12,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEast Hamblen Volunteer Fire Department: $10,899 over 1y, 14% of budgetCarson-Newman University: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEncore Theatrical Company: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMorristown-Hamblen Humane Society Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetStepping Out Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMorristown Charity Horseshow Inc: $500 over 1y, 1.3% 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 20.

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.

The Rogers Foundation IncTN24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rogers Foundation Inc · Wallace Foundation · Filmtech Foundation Inc · United Way of Hamblen County Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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.

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About Jefferson Federal Charitable Foundation

How much does Jefferson Federal Charitable Foundation give?
Jefferson Federal Charitable Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $455,200 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Jefferson Federal Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Health (23%), Crime & Legal (17%), Housing & Shelter (11%).
Who are Jefferson Federal Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Ministerial Association Temporary Shelter ($150k), Friends of Hospice of the Lakeway Area Inc ($115k), Senior Citizens Center Inc ($62k).
Does Jefferson Federal Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jefferson Federal Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jefferson Federal Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rogers Foundation Inc, Wallace Foundation, Filmtech Foundation Inc.
Where is Jefferson Federal Charitable Foundation based?
Jefferson Federal Charitable 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 50 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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