Tennessee · Private foundation
Tennessee Health Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 75
- Grants FY2024
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,660,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 119
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $282M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Tennessee Health Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 73 | $2.1M | 42% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $883k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $1.3M | 31% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $5.1M | 33% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $5.8M | 55% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $2.2M | 70% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $2.3M | 50% |
| FY2017 | 119 | $7.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tn Inc | $1,201,525 | 4 | 1% |
| Mid-South Food Bank | $1,201,306 | 4 | 1% |
| The Rivercity Company | $1,000,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Chattanooga Chamber Foundation | $1,000,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc | $756,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee | $751,350 | 4 | 1% |
| Governor's Early Literacy Foundation | $600,000 | 2 | 6% |
| United Way of Greater Chattanooga | $565,853 | 6 | 2% |
| Erlanger Foundation | $535,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Tennis Memphis Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 38% |
Show all 165 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 76 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Tennessee Health Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 138 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Southern Health Plan Inc · Benwood Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Food City Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · The Howard Fund · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc
How this is measured
About Tennessee Health Foundation Inc
- How much does Tennessee Health Foundation Inc give?
- Tennessee Health Foundation Inc reported 75 grants totaling $3,794,437 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 119 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Tennessee Health Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (30%), Health (23%), Food & Nutrition (14%).
- Who are Tennessee Health Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tn Inc ($1.2M), Mid-South Food Bank ($1.2M), The Rivercity Company ($1.0M).
- Does Tennessee Health Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tennessee Health Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Tennessee Health Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Southern Health Plan Inc, Benwood Foundation Inc, Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation.
- Where is Tennessee Health Foundation Inc based?
- Tennessee Health Foundation Inc is based in TN.
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