How much does Tennessee Hospital Association give?

Tennessee Hospital Association reported 22 itemized grants totaling $1,552,188, out of $1,593,244 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 67 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Tennessee Hospital Association fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (94%), Education (5%), Public Safety & Disaster (1%).

Who are Tennessee Hospital Association's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Jackson Madison County General Hospital ($884k), University Health System Inc ($762k), Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital ($555k).

Does Tennessee Hospital Association fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Tennessee Hospital Association based?

Tennessee Hospital Association is based in TN.

Tennessee Hospital Association

Tennessee Hospital Association at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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.

$1.6M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$253k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$7.5MEducation$420kPublic Safety & Disaster$55kPublic Benefit$28kArts & Culture$20k

02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 22 grants below total $1,552,188, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,593,244 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $41,056 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $7k
$10k–50k15 grants · $232k
$50k–250k5 grants · $1.1M
$250k+1 grant · $253k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$77M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
ASCENSION SAINT THOMAS RUTHERFORD HOSPITAL	$187,500
UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC	$187,500
TENNESSEE HOSPITAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION	$25,000
OPPORTUNITY TENNESSEE	$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF TN MEDICAL CENTER	$18,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER	$18,000
HOLSTON VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER	$15,000
PARKWEST MEDICAL CENTER	$15,000
ASCENSION SAINT THOMAS WEST HOSPITAL	$15,000
BAPTIST MEMORIAL HOSPITAL - MEMPHIS	$15,000
BRISTOL REGIONAL MEDIAL CENTER	$15,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.3M · 23 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.3M

$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+26%

Still filing today

74%

23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthEducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

UH
UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $762k · revenue +38%
ST
Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital
3× · 2022–2024 · $555k · revenue +12%
SC
Shelby County Health Care Corporation
5× · 2020–2024 · $503k · revenue +52%

Funded once

BS
BRIGHT SCHOOL INC
one grant, 2020 · $420k · revenue +17%
CH
Covenant Healthgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $385k · revenue +26%
ML
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Incgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue +118%

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.

04Its field

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.

Fort Loudoun Medical Center

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.

Health

Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Association

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.

Health

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

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.

Health

Wellmont Hawkins County Memorial Hospital Inc

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.

Health

Methodist Medical Center

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.

Health

Roane County Medical Center

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.

Health

Smyth County Community Hospital

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.

Health

Takoma Regional Hospital Inc

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.

Health

Baptist Healthcare System Inc

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,…

Health

Rex Hospital Inc

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.

Health

Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville

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.

Health

Thompson Cancer Survival Center

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…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital; 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.

04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 85 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

36/36

Grantees still filing

27/36

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$4,572,781Other$3,000,025Education$419,993Philanthropy$20,000Arts & Culture$20,000Public Benefit$20,000Community Improvement$10,000

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.

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.

Tennessee Rural Health Recruitment & Retention Center IncTN19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tennessee Hospital Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tennessee Hospital Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home