· Private foundation
Tennessee Health Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k39 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $404k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $639k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TN INC | $1,660,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| BALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATION | $110,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA HAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND | $110,000 |
| FIRST TN DEV DISTRICT FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $62,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF EAST TN HIGHLANDS | $54,080 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $52,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NE TN | $50,230 |
| GREATER KINGSPORT FAMILY YMCA | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA | $50,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TN FOUNDATION INC | $42,000 |
| BELMONT UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| PURE YOUTH ATHLETICS ALLIANCE | $23,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $851k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% 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 22% of Tennessee Health 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, 96% of the giving stays in TN; read by stated purpose it is 88% — 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 +39% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC4× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +34%
- MFMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK4× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +7%
- CAChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $757k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- TRTHE RIVERCITY COMPANYone grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue -13%
- ETEAST TN ST UNIV FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $602k
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION GREATER CHATTANOOGAone grant, 2017 · $600k
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The mission of the governor's foundation for health and wellness is to encourage and enable more tennesseans to lead healthier lives.
The united way of south central tennessee's mission is to improve lives by advancing opportunities for education, health, and financial stability for all. its vision is to be the primary community solutions leader for human services.
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 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…
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,…
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…
Together with our community and partners, we transform generosity into lasting change towards a prosperous and just chattanooga where all can thrive and achieve their full potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc and the most unlike its peers is Petworks Animal Services 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 38 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
154 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. 154 of the 244 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC ↗
- Who funds MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RIVERCITY COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds GOVERNOR'S EARLY LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds ERLANGER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TENNIS MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE ASSN OF BROADCASTERS ↗
- Who funds HEALING HANDS HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Dayspring Health Inc ↗
- Who funds MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Creative Discovery Museum ↗
- Who funds Knoxville News-Sentinel Charities Inc The Empty Stocking Fund ↗
- Who funds COFFEE COUNTY ANTI DRUG COALITION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIGNAL CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Camellia Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds KABOOM 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: 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
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 Tennessee Health 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.
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.