· Public charity
Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tn
Our mission is to feed the hungry in northeast tennessee by securing and distributing food and engaging the community in the fight to end hunger through regional partnerships, programs, and education.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 23 grants below total $293,636 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $22,146,129 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $21,852,493 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k14 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $191k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KINGSPORT CITY SCHOOLS | $40,867 |
| Individual grant recipient | $34,233 |
| JC SCHOOLS FOOD FOR KIDS | $31,508 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY SCHOOLS | $19,182 |
| GREENE COUNTY | $17,121 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,191 |
| HANCOK CO SCHOOLS | $11,679 |
| BAILEYTON | $11,456 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,275 |
| ETSU - COLLEGE PUBLIC HEALTH PROJ DIABETES DEBORAH SLAWSON | $9,763 |
| MOSHIEM | $9,511 |
| SULLIVAN COUNTY SCHOOLS | $9,148 |
| NORTHERN GREENE CO MINISTRIES - UNITED IN LOVE MINISTRTIES | $9,000 |
| MCDONALD MISSION CENTER - FAIRVIEW BAPIST CHURCH | $8,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK (MID) | $8,019 |
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 (FY18–18, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 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.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k went to new ones.
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
- SCSULLIVAN COUNTY SCHOOLS9× · 2017–2025 · $224k
- KCKINGSPORT CITY SCHOOLS9× · 2017–2025 · $192k
- GCGREENE COUNTY5× · 2019–2023 · $184k
Funded once
- GCGREENE COUNTY SCHOOLSone grant, 2018 · $68k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $16k
- ECELIZABETHTONCARTER CO SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $11k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
2 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. 2 of the 35 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tn 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.
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