· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| GIRLS INC | $15,000 |
| MORRISTOWN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $15,000 |
| HCEXCELL | $15,000 |
| HELPING HANDS CLINIC | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HOSPICE | $10,000 |
| IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF HAMBLEN COUNTY | $8,700 |
| HIDDEN TREASURES ACADEMY | $7,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF HAMBLEN COUNTY | $5,000 |
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 (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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against -15% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 50 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 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 TAPESTRY FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds ALL SAINTS' EPISCOPAL SCHOOL 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 ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jefferson Federal Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jefferson Federal Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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