· Private foundation
Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k84 grants · $184k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $207k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $650k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY INVESTMENT FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| INTER FAITH HEALTH CENTER INC | $100,000 |
| JIM HASLAM LEADERSHIP CENTER | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| EAST TENN CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| GREAT SMOKY MTN COUNCIL | $50,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $50,000 |
| HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| LAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE | $21,500 |
| ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT DISTRIBUTORS | $20,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EAST TN INC | $15,000 |
| LEADERSHIP KNOXVILLE | $13,000 |
| HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $226k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 62% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 87% of the giving stays in TN; read by stated purpose it is 84% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
128 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2025, 61 since wound down; 21 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $330k 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $609k · revenue +131%
- UHUNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC4× · 2020–2023 · $586k · revenue +38%
- HRHELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $260k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- RSROANE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $100k
- TAThe AED Foundation Incone grant, 2024 · $26k · revenue 0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $25k
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 provide no-cost health care to families who have no insurance and do not qualify for the states low income insurance program.
The academy serves as the local medica society for physicians of knox county and surrounding counties in east tennessee. its purpose is to afford a medium for free discussion and exchange of ideas among physicians.
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.
To provide affordable housing to low and moderate income persons in east tennessee through first-time homebuyer education; assist with mortgage loans, downpayments, and closing costs; build new single family housing; develop multi-family…
To secure philanthrophic support from individuals, businesses, and organizations for the advancement of exceptional health care at knoxville hospital & clinics through advocacy, fundraising, and stewardship of contributions.
To empower and support those at risk or affected by kidney disease. Its vision is a Tennessee where the rate of kidney disease is minimized and everyone who needs care receives care.
The mission of tccn is to support, educate, and represent non-profit organizations that provide charitable healthcare services to low-income, uninsured, and underserved tennesseans. tccn envisions a strong, compassionate healthcare safety…
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.
To cultivate healthy communities by supporting relationships between local farmers, producers, and the public.
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…
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.
Klf promotes collaboration across congregations, neighborhoods, business, philanthropy, and government to connect people in need with resources needed to thrive. the current focus is on safe affordable housing, mentoring youth and adults,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Tennessee Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Real Talk Mentoring 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.
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 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
125 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. 125 of the 218 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE ↗
- Who funds THE AIR FORCE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EAST TENNINC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP KNOXVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Associated Equipment Distributors ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE KIDS BELONG INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SERTOMA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EMERALD CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds The Mend House Sober Living Community ↗
- Who funds SEEED INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds KNOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
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: East Tennessee Foundation · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · Bill and Crissy Haslam Foundation · The Clayton Homes Foundation · United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc · Lawson Family Foundation · The Boyd Foundation · The Clayton Family Foundation · Food City Charitable Foundation · Thompson Charitable Foundation · Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee · Graham 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 Stowers Machinery Foundation 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.
- Tunison Foundation Inc — 74% of income from government
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
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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