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Lafollette Medical Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$563k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$71k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$1.0MFood & Nutrition$846kPublic Safety & Disaster$777kRecreation & Sports$387kHuman Services$331kYouth Development$287kEmployment$207kCrime & Legal$153kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $305k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $248k
$36,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF LAFOLLETTE FIRE DEPARTMENT$71,476
CAMPBELL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS$69,977
Individual grant recipient$56,700
OPEN ARMS MINISTRY FOOD PANTRY$50,000
SPRINGS OF LIFE RECOVERY CENTER$45,000
CAMPBELL COUNTY CHILDREN'S CENTER$40,076
CAMPBELL COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION$40,000
HOL HEALTH COUNSELING$36,500
CAMPBELL COUNTY RURAL FIRE SERVICE$36,450
BRIDGES TO RECOVERY$33,000
CASA OF CAMPBELL COUNTY$25,600
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST TENNESSEE$23,000
EAST TENNESSEE HUMAN RESOURCES AGENCY$15,000
CAMPBELL COUNTY HEALTH COUNCIL$10,000
FOOD LIFE SERVICES OF CAMBELL CO$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $546k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, 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.

area typical 10%COMMUNITY HEALTH OF EAST TENNESSEE: $96k → 20%COMMUNITY HEALTH OF EAST TENNESSEE: $82k → 20%BRIDGES TO RECOVERY: $82k → 20%COMMUNITY HEALTH OF EAST TENNESSEE: $80k → 20%COMMUNITY HEALTH OF EAST TENNESSEE: $76k → 20%COMMUNITY HEALTH OF EAST TENNESSEE: $43k → 20%BRIDGES TO RECOVERY: $33k → 20%COMMUNITY HEALTH OF EAST TENNESSEE: $29k → 20%BRIDGES TO RECOVERY: $20k → 20%COMMUNITY HEALTH OF EAST TENNESSEE: $5k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.9M · 21 repeat orgs$261k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
6

Total granted

$3.9M
$204k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+58%

Still filing today

48%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterFood & NutritionCrime & LegalEducationOther

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

  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALTH OF EAST TENNESSEE INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $411k · revenue +13%
  • CC
    CAMPBELL COUNTY CHILDRENS CENTER
    7× · 2017–2024 · $287k · revenue +68%
  • ET
    EAST TENNESSEE HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $157k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • AN
    A NEW BEGINNING INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · 54% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $46k
  • SH
    Shepherds Home Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $39k · revenue -49%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Community Resource Center of Robertson County
Human Services
2
Campbell County Habitat for Humanity

To build affordable housing for people who would not otherwise qualify for a housing loan.

3
Homesafe of Sumner Wilson and Robertson Counties

Homesafe provides safe, temorary shelter, and support services for indivduals who have suffered or have been threatened with emotional or physical abuse.

Human Services
4
Greater Chattanooga Christian Services Inc

Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling

Human Services
5
Citrus County Abuse Shelter Associa

Rape crisis and abuse shelter

6
Carthage Crisis Center Inc

The carthage crisis center is committed to restoring homeless and needy people to self sufficiency with god's help.

Health
7
Campbell County Rescue Squad Inc

To provide basic and advanced life support, both emergency and non- emergency, and rescue services to the citizens of bedford and campbell counties.

Health
8
House of Hope

Assisting and housing females in recovery

9
Casa of Robertson County Inc

To provide court-appointed special advocates to child victims of abuse and neglect. The programs vision is a safe, permanent, loving home for every child it serves.

Human Services
10
Peake Revovery Inc

Rehab services provide utilities and shelter

Health
11
The Mend House Sober Living Community

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…

Health
12
Covenant Recovery Inc

Our mission is to deliver high-quality, evidence-based treatment for substance use disorders through integrated care, personalized treatment plans, and a commitment to long-term recovery outcomes.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of East Tennessee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shepherds Home Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 28 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SPRINGS OF LIFE RECOVERY CENTER — $486,557 · OtherSPRINGS OF LIFE RECOVERY CENTERCITY OF LAFOLLETTE FIRE DEPARTMENT — $453,109 · OtherCITY OF LAFOLLETTE FIRE DEPARTMENTCAMPBELL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS — $444,033 · OtherCAMPBELL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENSCAMPBELL COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION — $387,094 · OtherCAMPBELL COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATIONOPEN ARMS MINISTRY — $160,000 · OtherOPEN ARMS MINISTRYEAST TENNESSEE HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY INC — $157,000 · OtherEAST TENNESSEE HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST TENNESSEE INC — $147,500 · OtherOPEN ARMS MINISTRY FOOD PANTRY — $102,000 · Other+13 more — $508,410 · Other+13 moreCOMMUNITY HEALTH OF EAST TENNESSEE INC — $411,398 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY HEAL…Bridges to Recovery — $135,000 · Human ServicesBridges to Rec…CAMPBELL COUNTY CHILDRENS CENTER — $286,514 · Youth DevelopmentCAMPBELL COUNTY RURAL FIRE SVCS INC — $153,479 · Public Safety & DisasterFOOD LIFE SERVICES OF CAMPBELL COUN — $130,000 · Food & NutritionCASA OF CAMPBELL COUNTY — $120,600 · Crime & LegalPINNACLE RESOURCE CENTER — $82,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,845,703Human Services$546,398Youth Development$286,514Public Safety & Disaster$153,479Food & Nutrition$130,000Crime & Legal$120,600Housing & Shelter$82,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH OF EAST TENNESSEE INC — $411,398 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetCAMPBELL COUNTY CHILDRENS CENTER — $286,514 over 7y, 7.4% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY INC — $157,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCAMPBELL COUNTY RURAL FIRE SVCS INC — $153,479 over 7y, 28% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST TENNESSEE INC — $147,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetBridges to Recovery — $135,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetFOOD LIFE SERVICES OF CAMPBELL COUN — $130,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetCASA OF CAMPBELL COUNTY — $120,600 over 6y, 20% of budgetPINNACLE RESOURCE CENTER — $82,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetHOL Health Counseling — $75,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetA NEW BEGINNING INC — $50,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetShepherds Home Inc — $39,350 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetREMOTE AREA MEDICAL — $19,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 COMMUNITY HEALTH OF EAST TENNESSEE INC
  • Who funds CAMPBELL COUNTY CHILDRENS CENTER
  • Who funds EAST TENNESSEE HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY INC
  • Who funds CAMPBELL COUNTY RURAL FIRE SVCS INC
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST TENNESSEE INC
  • Who funds Bridges to Recovery
  • Who funds FOOD LIFE SERVICES OF CAMPBELL COUN
  • Who funds CASA OF CAMPBELL COUNTY
  • Who funds PINNACLE RESOURCE CENTER
  • Who funds HOL Health Counseling
  • Who funds A NEW BEGINNING INC
  • Who funds Shepherds Home Inc
  • Who funds REMOTE AREA MEDICAL
  • Who funds ROANE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION

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.

East Tennessee FoundationTN15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Tennessee Foundation · Y12 Fcu Gives Foundation Inc · United Way Clinch-Powell Valley 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 Lafollette Medical Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Lafollette Medical Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Lafollette Medical Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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