· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of JEFFERSON FEDERAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k6 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $245k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $190,000 |
| M-H HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| KINGSWOOD HOME FOR CHILDREN | $35,000 |
| TAPESTRY FOR WOMEN | $25,000 |
| ROSE CENTER & COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS | $25,000 |
| SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER | $24,900 |
| HCEXCELL | $15,000 |
| MORRISTOWN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $15,000 |
| GIRLS INC | $15,000 |
| IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| HELPING HANDS CLINIC | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HOSPICE | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF HAMBLEN COUNTY | $8,700 |
| HIDDEN TREASURES ACADEMY | $7,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF HAMBLEN COUNTY | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2020, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF HOSPICE OF THE LAKEWAY AREA INC3× · 2017–2020 · $115k · revenue +67%
- CICEASE INC2× · 2017–2019 · $57k · revenue +149%
- UWUNITED WAY OF HAMBLEN COUNTY INC4× · 2017–2020 · $45k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- MAMINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION TEMPORARY SHELTERone grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue -15% · 27% of their budget
- AALPSone grant, 2018 · $50k
- CACORNERSTONE ACADEMY INC LAKEWAY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +231%
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.
Terminally ill volunteer care
Provide hospice services to the terminally ill & families
The provision of affordable housing and services to the elderly and infirm in need of skilled and intermediate nursing care and independent living
To honor the wishes of patients and families and in doing so bring peace, dignity and comfort 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
To provide long-term nursing and health care for its residents.
To serve the needs of individuals suffering from life-limiting illness as well as to serve the individuals caring for them. to place emphasis on comfort and quality of life while fulfilling the physical, psychological, social and spiritual…
School
Provide assistance to those experiencing homelessness through emergency, temporary, transitional, and permanent housing solutions.
Long-term care facility for the elderly
We provide care for and find permanent placement for animals in need. our funds are used to operate a shelter where animals are properly cared for. we provide food, kennel equipment, boarding, training and medical care and transport for…
Medical care for indigent patients
Volunteer ambulance corp
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Morristown-Hamblen Humane Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cornerstone Academy Inc Lakeway Christian Schools. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 50 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 MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION TEMPORARY SHELTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOSPICE OF THE LAKEWAY AREA INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CEASE INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE ACADEMY INC LAKEWAY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds LIONS VOLUNTEER BLIND INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF HAMBLEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KINGSWOOD HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ROSE CENTER AND COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds ALL SAINTS' EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TAPESTRY FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds MORRISTOWN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds LAKEWAY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds EAST HAMBLEN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds CARSON-NEWMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ENCORE THEATRICAL COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MORRISTOWN-HAMBLEN HUMANE SOCIETY 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: 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
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 Jefferson Federal Charitable 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.