· Public charity
Roane County United Way Inc
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of roane county.
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.
The 8 grants below total $113,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $135,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $21,250 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MID-EAST COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY | $26,875 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $21,875 |
| CASA OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY | $17,500 |
| FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF OAK RIDGE | $15,625 |
| AID TO DISTRESSED FAMILIES OF APPAL | $10,000 |
| RIDGEVIEW PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL & CE | $10,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE | $6,250 |
| SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE | $5,625 |
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, $377k) 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 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.
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 +56% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 5 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- MCMID-EAST COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY7× · 2017–2025 · $203k · revenue +41%
- MDMICHAEL DUNN CENTER5× · 2017–2023 · $128k · revenue +20%
- COCASA OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY5× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +191%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE 9TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $33k · revenue +38%
- MMISCELLANEOUSone grant, 2022 · $30k
- COCASA OF THE TENNESSEEone grant, 2023 · $21k
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.
To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.
Advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.
To support, develop, expand, and unite local casa programs in recruiting and training volunteers to advocate for tennessees children who have been abused and neglected.
To provide quality, affordable counseling to families and individuals.
Effective prosecution of child abuses, providing therapy and education for the abused, and providing a safe haven for the abused.
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
Interview facility for child abuse victims.
Provide advocacy for abused and neglected children in juvenile court.
To improve the lives of abused and neglected children through trained volunteers who advocate for safe, permanent, loving homes.
Residential and support services to children and adults with severe and multiple disabilities allowing them the opportunity to lead safe, stable, and personally fulfilling lifestyles in tennessee communities.
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.
Provide behavioral health services to clients located in middle and east tennessee
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ridgeview Psychiatric Hospital & Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is East Tennessee Kidney Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 24 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 MID-EAST COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL DUNN CENTER ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds EAST TENNESSEE KIDNEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CLINCH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds RIDGEVIEW PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL & CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Free Medical Clinic of Oak Ridge ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE 9TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds AID TO DISTRESSED FAMILIES OF APPALACHIAN COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds THE AVALON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WEST ROANE COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds ROANENET ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE ↗
- Who funds GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN COUNCIL 557 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TRUST ↗
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: United Way Clinch-Powell Valley Inc · United Way of Loudon County Inc · Variety of Eastern Tennessee · United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc · The Clayton Homes Foundation · East Tennessee Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Roane County United Way 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.
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.