· Private foundation
Tennessee Health Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 22% of Tennessee Health Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in TN; by stated purpose, 88%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
154 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 THE RIVERCITY COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tennessee Health Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tennessee Health Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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