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Pya Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$67k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$355kPublic Safety & Disaster$32kFood & Nutrition$20kHousing & Shelter$20kEducation$7kHuman Services$4kRecreation & Sports$3kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$831
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN RED CROSS$20,250
BALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATION$20,250
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$10,000
HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION$5,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$5,000
RANDOM ACTS OF FLOWERS$2,500
THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION KNOX COUNTY IMAGINATION LIBRARY$1,500
UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLE$1,000
MY GOOD DEED DBA 911 DAY$1,000
BRAVE STEP INC$250
WEST KNOX COUNTY LITTLE LEAGUE LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $12k → 14%THE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE: $3k → 12%THE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE: $3k → 12%THE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE: $3k → 12%THE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE: $3k → 12%THE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE: $3k → 12%HARMONY FAMILY CENTER: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$383k · 24 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
45

Total granted

$383k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+16%

Still filing today

79%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BH
    BALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue +36%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2022–2024 · $32k · revenue +23%
  • TN
    THE NORTHSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $23k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2017 · $19k
  • UH
    UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +79%
  • LP
    LEGACY PARKS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +95%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
2
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
3
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
4
Fort Loudoun Medical Center

Fort Loudoun Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
5
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
6
Roane County Medical Center

Roane County Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
7
Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Association

Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Association provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
8
Thompson Cancer Survival Center

Thompson Cancer Survival Center provides support services for cancer patients, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to…

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9
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is one of the nation's longest serving and most prestigious academic medical centers. Through its historic bond with Vanderbilt University, VUMC cultivates distinguished research and educational…

Health
10
University Medical Center Inc

To provide care to our community and to serve as a major teaching hospital for education and training in medicine, dentistry, nursing, and allied health professions.

Health
11
Medical Center of Central Georgia Inc

To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.

Health
12
Wellmont Health System

Honor those we serve by delivering the best possible care.Ballad Health is dedicated to improving the health of the 29-county Appalachian Highlands region.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cookeville Regional Charitable Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association 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

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 74 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
29/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEM: $106,009 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEMTHE NORTHSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $23,043 · OtherTHE NORTHSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCMOUNTAIN STATES FOUNDATION: $20,102 · OtherMOUNTAIN STATES FOUNDATIONSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $19,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK+39 more: $33,010 · Other+39 moreBALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $55,250 · HealthBALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATIONRandom Acts of Flowers: $33,000 · HealthRandom Acts of FlowersBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $22,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCHELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION: $18,212 · HealthHELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATIONCovenant Health Foundation: $17,800 · HealthCovenant Health FoundationEAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC: $11,250 · HealthEAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION I…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · Health+14 more: $26,840 · Health+14 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $32,250 · Human ServicesAmerican Na…THE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE: $14,000 · Human ServicesTHE RESTORA…+1 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesLEGACY PARKS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsGREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN HERITAGE CENTER: $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC: $1,340 · Philanthropy911 DAY: $1,000 · PhilanthropyMARTIN METHODIST FOUNDATION (FORMERLY MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE): $1,000 · EducationKNOX COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $500 · EducationBearden Bulldog Soccer Inc: $100 · Education
Other$201,164Health$194,852Human Services$47,750Recreation & Sports$2,500Arts & Culture$2,500Philanthropy$2,340Education$1,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $55,250 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRandom Acts of Flowers: $33,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $32,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NORTHSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $23,043 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN STATES FOUNDATION: $20,102 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION: $18,212 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCovenant Health Foundation: $17,800 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE: $14,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC: $11,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKNOXVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $5,510 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $4,375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY EAST TENNESSEE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC DBA THE NORTHEAST GEORGIA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUN: $3,980 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEGACY PARKS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN HERITAGE CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARMONY FAMILY CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCNEILLY CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC: $1,340 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAVICENT HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTJ MARTELL FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE KIDNEY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOVE KITCHEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARTIN METHODIST FOUNDATION (FORMERLY MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE): $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget911 DAY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOOKEVILLE REGIONAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $950 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC: $750 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC: $575 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOUNT MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKNOX COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBACON COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE 2 VOLUNTEER LODGE: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRegional Medical Center Foundation: $350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHANGE CENTER: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAVE STEP INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKNOX AREA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Haslam Family Foundat…East Tennessee Founda…Stowers Machinery Fou…Trinity Health Founda…Bill and Crissy Hasla…Food City Charitable …The Clayton Homes Fou…The Clayton Family Fo…Lawson Family Foundat…United Way of Greater…Tennessee Health Foun…Ted & Drama Russell F…
Haslam Family Foundation IncTN34.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Haslam Family Foundation Inc · East Tennessee Foundation · Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc · Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee · Bill and Crissy Haslam Foundation · Food City Charitable Foundation · The Clayton Homes Foundation · The Clayton Family Foundation · Lawson Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc · Tennessee Health Foundation Inc · Ted & Drama Russell Family Foundation C/O East Tn Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pya Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pya Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Pya Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Pya Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 74 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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