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Southern Health Plan Inc

To support the communities we serve emphasizing healthy living and quality of life.

$414k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$1.2MEducation$160kArts & Culture$147kYouth Development$133kHuman Services$122kCommunity Improvement$73kFood & Nutrition$59kPhilanthropy$57kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $52,649 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $413,605 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $360,956 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$6,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION$10,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC$10,000
SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC$6,000
OF ONE ACCORD INC$6,000
CITY OF CHATTANOOGA$5,600
JOHNSON CITY RECOVERY CENTER$5,049
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $5k → 12%ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC: $10k → 12%ORANGE GROVE CENTER: $10k → 12%LA PAZ CHATTANOOGA: $8k → 12%KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INC: $5k → 12%METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $5k → 12%LA PAZ CHATTANOOGA: $5k → 12%METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $5k → 17%METROPOLITAN INTER-FAITH ASSOCIATION: $5k → 17%PURPOSE POINT COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 48 repeat orgs$589k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
71

Total granted

$1.4M
$567k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+40%

Still filing today

88%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $184k · revenue +33%
  • HM
    Hunter Museum of American Art
    4× · 2017–2020 · $70k · revenue +127%
  • MH
    MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $68k · revenue +260%

Funded once

  • HT
    Healthy Tennessee
    one grant, 2019 · $60k · revenue -86% · 78% of their budget
  • CF
    Camellia Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +90%
  • KD
    KEYSTONE DENTAL CARE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
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
3
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
4
Claiborne Medical Center

Claiborne 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
Ut Medical Group Inc

To be a successful physician led, professionally managed medical practice that benefits our patients and our community, while supporting the UT Health Science Center's mission through clinical excellence, financial responsibility and a…

Health
6
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
7
Mental Health Cooperative Inc

Mental health cooperative inc. (mhc) provides integrated health services that include behavioral health care, primary health care, addiction services, and community-based care management. mhc also provides emergency psychiatric services…

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
Tennessee Health Care Association

To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.

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10
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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11
Nashville Cares

Nashville cares exists to end the hiv epidemic, promote comprehensive sexual health and end sexual health stigmatization and discrimination through prevention, education, treatment, support, advocacy, and strategic partnership.

Health
12
University Community Health Service

To provide accessible affordable, holistic healthcare to patients across the lifespan with a special focus on vulnerable populations, within a financially sustainable delivery model. further, uchs supports health professions education,…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc and the most unlike its peers is Downside Up Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySupportive Housing and Serv…Family Philanthropic Founda…Economic Development and Ed…Faith-Based Recovery & Supp…Youth Sports ProgramsProfessional Development Or…Faith-Based Community AidProfessional Trade Associat…Arts and Cultural Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%1%<5yr13%4%5–10yr15%16%10–20yr12%24%20–35yr10%31%35–55yr31%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%2%5–10yr15%16%10–20yr12%18%20–35yr10%27%35–55yr31%37%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/125
the rest of the field
14%
2,579/18,833

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

109 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. 109 of the 125 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/109
Grantees still filing
84/109
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

American Heart Association Inc — $183,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $77,500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCHealthy Tennessee — $60,000 · HealthHealthy TennesseeBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $57,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DBEERSHEBA SPRINGS MEDICAL CLINIC — $45,000 · HealthCamellia Foundation Inc — $40,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC — $36,500 · Health+35 more — $417,049 · Health+35 moreMEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC — $67,500 · OtherMEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATIO…SILOAM HEALTH — $50,000 · OtherSILOAM HEALTHCHATTANOOGA WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP — $48,000 · OtherCHATTANOOGA WOMEN'S LEADERSHIPLITERACY MID-SOUTH INC — $35,000 · OtherKEYSTONE DENTAL CARE INC — $25,000 · OtherCHATTANOOGA CARES — $22,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC — $22,500 · OtherSUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $22,500 · Other+44 more — $381,120 · Other+44 moreHunter Museum of American Art — $70,000 · Arts & CultureCreative Discovery Museum — $30,000 · Arts & CultureMEMPHIS IN MAY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL INC — $14,500 · Arts & CultureRISE CHATTANOOGA — $5,000 · Arts & CultureASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL ARTISTS — $5,000 · Arts & CultureMemphis Chapter of National Coalition of 100 Black Women — $5,000 · Arts & CultureMEMPHIS MUSEUMS OF SCIENCE & HISTORY — $5,000 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE BALLET — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MEMPHIS INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION — $65,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · EducationNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationTHE ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association — $15,000 · Human ServicesLA PAZ DE DIOS INC — $12,500 · Human ServicesPURPOSE POINT COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER — $10,000 · Human ServicesISAIAH 117 HOUSE — $7,700 · Human ServicesCENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE — $5,000 · Human ServicesKNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED — $5,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE DAY CARE CENTER INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INC OF CHATTANOOGA — $11,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL TALK INC — $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentEMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION — $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentGREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN COUNCIL 557 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TRUST — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Coalition for Kids Inc — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls on the Run of Greater Knoxville — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentWOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA — $27,500 · PhilanthropyThe Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA — $9,940 · Philanthropy
Health$916,549Other$674,120Arts & Culture$144,500Education$110,000Human Services$80,200Youth Development$58,000Philanthropy$57,440

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $183,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $77,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHunter Museum of American Art — $70,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC — $67,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHealthy Tennessee — $60,000 over 1y, 78% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $57,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSILOAM HEALTH — $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHATTANOOGA WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP — $48,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetBEERSHEBA SPRINGS MEDICAL CLINIC — $45,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetCamellia Foundation Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $36,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY MID-SOUTH INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMethodist Healthcare Foundation — $30,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCreative Discovery Museum — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHARIS HEALTH CENTER — $30,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetHEALING HANDS HEALTH CENTER INC — $27,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA — $27,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetTENNESSEE CHARITABLE CARE NETWORK — $25,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC — $22,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetJunior Achievment of Chattanooga — $21,500 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCROSSROADS DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP — $20,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA — $20,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CHATTANOOGA INC — $20,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Memphis Inc — $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $18,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends in Need Health Center Inc — $17,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSIGNAL CENTERS INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Mid-South Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEMPHIS IN MAY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL INC — $14,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREMOTE AREA MEDICAL — $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INC OF CHATTANOOGA — $11,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPORTER-LEATH — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN HOPE GOOD SHEPHERD CLINIC INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST THINGS FIRST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE TN — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSISKIN HOSPITAL FOR PHYSICAL REHABILITATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Tennessee Health Foun…Robert F Stone Founda…The Community Foundat…Benwood Foundation IncWeldon F Osborne Foun…Hamico IncChattanooga Christian…Robert L & Kathrina H…Community Foundation …United Way of Greater…Tennessee Charitable …Smile 180 Foundation
Tennessee Health Foundation IncTN60.6× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tennessee Health Foundation Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Benwood Foundation Inc · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Hamico Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · United Way of Greater Chattanooga · Tennessee Charitable Care Network · Smile 180 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 Southern Health Plan 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
49report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 125 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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