· Private foundation
Paddison Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KNOXVILLE-ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS | $15,000 |
| INTERFAITH HEALTH CLINIC | $14,000 |
| KNOXVILLE-KNOX COUNTY CAC | $14,000 |
| FOUNTAIN CITY MINISTRY CENTER | $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 |
| THE COVERING HOUSE | $5,000 |
| FOCUS GROUP PRISON MINISTRY | $5,000 |
| MEN OF VALOR | $5,000 |
| YOUNG WILLIAMS ANIMAL CENTER | $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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Paddison Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in TN; by stated purpose, 84%.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 39 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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Paddison Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paddison Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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