· Public charity
Tennessee Hospital Association
The mission of the organization is to lead our members in advocacy for and support of community-based hospitals and health systems and to assist them in delivering accessible, cost-effective, quality health services.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $1,552,188 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,593,244 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $41,056 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 $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $232k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $253k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REGIONAL ONE HEALTH | $253,000 |
| NASHVILLE GENERAL HOSPITAL | $237,500 |
| MOUNTAIN STATES HEALTH ALLIANCE | $237,500 |
| JACKSON-MADISON COUNTY GENERAL HOSPITAL | $210,500 |
| UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC | $187,500 |
| ASCENSION SAINT THOMAS RUTHERFORD HOSPITAL | $187,500 |
| TENNESSEE HOSPITAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY TENNESSEE | $20,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $18,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TN MEDICAL CENTER | $18,000 |
| BAPTIST MEMORIAL HOSPITAL - MEMPHIS | $15,000 |
| JOHNSON CITY MEDICAL CENTER | $15,000 |
| BRISTOL REGIONAL MEDIAL CENTER | $15,000 |
| ASCENSION SAINT THOMAS WEST HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| MAURY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of your 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.
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.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- UHUNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC5× · 2020–2024 · $762k · revenue +38%
- STSaint Thomas Rutherford Hospital3× · 2022–2024 · $555k · revenue +12%
- SCShelby County Health Care Corporation5× · 2020–2024 · $503k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- BSBRIGHT SCHOOL INCone grant, 2020 · $420k · revenue +17%
- CHCovenant Healthgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $385k · revenue +26%
- MLMethodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue +118%
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.
Fort Loudoun 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.
Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Association 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.
Fort Sanders Regional 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.
Honor those we serve by delivering the best possible care.Ballad Health is dedicated to improving the health of the 29-county Appalachian Highlands region.
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.
Honor those we serve by delivering the best possible care.Ballad Health is dedicated to improving the health of the 29-county Appalachian Highlands region.
Honor those we serve by delivering the best possible care.Ballad Health is dedicated to improving the health of the 29-county Appalachian Highlands region.
The mission of Baptist Health is to exemplify our Christian heritage of providing quality healthcare services by enhancing the physical & emotional health of the people & communities we serve, guided by integrity, respect, stewardship,…
To improve the health and well-being of north carolinians and others whom we serve. we accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.
Rooted in a tradition of Christian service, Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville expands access to high quality healthcare delivered with a compassionate and nurturing spirit to all.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Bright School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 85 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
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 UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital ↗
- Who funds Shelby County Health Care Corporation ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain States Health Alliance ↗
- Who funds Covenant Health ↗
- Who funds Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Wellmont Health System ↗
- Who funds Saint Thomas West Hospital ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds Claiborne Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Parkwest Medical Center ↗
- Who funds EAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds NMC SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MACON HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE HEALTH CARE CAMPAIGN 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: Tennessee Rural Health Recruitment & Retention Center Inc · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · East Tennessee Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Tennessee Hospital Association 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.