Tennessee · Private foundation
Paddison Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $173k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Paddison Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $173k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $172k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $158k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $142k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $186k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $190k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $185k | 4% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $176k | 13% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knoxville Zoological Gardens Inc | $135,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Interfaith Health Center | $122,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Fountain City Ministry Center | $118,000 | 9 | 13% |
| Susannah's House Inc | $86,550 | 9 | 1% |
| St Paul United Methodist Church | $80,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Young-Williams Animal Center of East Ten | $44,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Covering House | $43,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Remote Area Medical | $41,000 | 9 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $23,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Childhelp Inc | $20,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knoxville Zoological Gardens Inc | $135,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Interfaith Health Center | $122,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Fountain City Ministry Center | $118,000 | 9 | 13% |
| Susannah's House Inc | $86,550 | 9 | 1% |
| St Paul United Methodist Church | $80,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Young-Williams Animal Center of East Ten | $44,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Covering House | $43,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Remote Area Medical | $41,000 | 9 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $23,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Childhelp Inc | $20,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Men of Valor | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Great Smoky Mountains Institute Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Assisi House | $13,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Cove Church Inc | $12,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Volunteer Ministry Center | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Carson-Newman University | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Helping Mamas Inc | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of East Tennessee Inc | $3,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Lee University | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pedal for Alzheimer's Ltd | $2,100 | 2 | 2% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($746k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Paddison Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Paddison Charitable Foundation
- How much does Paddison Charitable Foundation give?
- Paddison Charitable Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $173,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Paddison Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (20%), Health (16%), Animals (12%).
- Who are Paddison Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Knoxville Zoological Gardens Inc ($135k), Interfaith Health Center ($122k), Fountain City Ministry Center ($118k).
- Does Paddison Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Paddison Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Paddison Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Tennessee Foundation, Akima Club Inc, Gene & Florence Monday Foundation Inc.
- Where is Paddison Charitable Foundation based?
- Paddison Charitable Foundation is based in TN.
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