· Private foundation
Paddison Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KNOXVILLE-ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS | $15,000 |
| KNOXVILLE-KNOX COUNTY CAC | $14,000 |
| FOUNTAIN CITY MINISTRY CENTER | $14,000 |
| INTERFAITH HEALTH CLINIC | $14,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK | $12,000 |
| WESLEY HOUSE FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| SUSANNAH'S HOUSE | $12,000 |
| MARYVILLE COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $10,000 |
| ST PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $8,000 |
| EMERALD AVE YOUTH FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| FOCUS GROUP PRISON MINISTRY | $5,000 |
| YOUNG WILLIAMS ANIMAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| MEN OF VALOR | $5,000 |
| THE COVERING HOUSE | $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 (FY17–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Paddison Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in TN; read by stated purpose it is 84% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- IHINTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $122k · revenue +256%
- FCFOUNTAIN CITY MINISTRY CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $118k · revenue +51%
- SHSUSANNAH'S HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $87k · revenue +295%
Funded once
- SLST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $3k
- LULEE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +9%
- PSPELLISSIPPI STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
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…
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.
To meet the basic physical, spiritual, and social need of people in our area using the ministry of Jesus as a model.
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
Provide shelter and basic needs for homeless people. while fostering self-respect and human dignity, samaritan house will encourage the residents' efforts to find employment and housing.
The hospice mission is to honor life through exceptional service and compassionate care. the organization is primarily engaged in providing care and support that enables the terminally ill to spend their final days in a comfortable and…
Non-denominational christian mission whose purpose is to assist those in need of shelter, food and clothing in the henderson county, north carolina area.
The mission of mercy center ministries inc. is to provide homeless women who are single, pregnant, and/or parenting with shelter, supportive services and community resources which will enable them to become independent, empowered, and…
The mission of austin street center is to provide emergency shelter and related services to the homeless. programs provide crisis intervention, substance abuse awareness information and opportunities to improve present life situations to…
Nashville rescue mission, formerly known as nrm holdings, inc., fein 45-2424130, continues the mission services established in 1954, by nashville rescue mission, fein 62-6018832. following god's command to love our neighbors as ourselves,…
Luke's house provides medical and spiritual hope, health, and healing to greater new orleans residents, creates patient-centered experiences for students, and connects patients to long-term healthcare solutions.
The organization was created to glorify god by serving his people, especially those facing unplanned pregnancies. this includes rendering christian service, material aid, medical services and spiritual direction to women and men faced with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of East Tennessee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Natural Resources Defense Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 39 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 KNOXVILLE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN CITY MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUSANNAH'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG-WILLIAMS ANIMAL CENTER OF EAST TEN ↗
- Who funds THE COVERING HOUSE ↗
- Who funds REMOTE AREA MEDICAL ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
- Who funds MEN OF VALOR ↗
- Who funds GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ASSISI HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CARSON-NEWMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HELPING MAMAS INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds LEE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PEDAL FOR ALZHEIMER'S LTD ↗
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: East Tennessee Foundation · Akima Club Inc · Gene & Florence Monday Foundation Inc · The Clayton Family Foundation · The Boyd Foundation · Bill and Crissy Haslam Foundation · United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc · Thompson Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Paddison 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.