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Tennessee Rural Health Recruitment & Retention Center Inc

The mission of the organization is to enhance statewide collaboration on workforce planning to better serve rural and underserved communities and health providers in tennessee by assisting in the recruitment, placement and retention of physicians and other health professionals.

$9.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of TENNESSEE RURAL HEALTH RECRUITMENT & RETENTION CENTER INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 31 grants below total $4,559,984 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,236,603 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,676,619 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 $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $114k
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.9M
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE - HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION$1,605,476
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER - GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION$948,168
ETSU COLLEGE OF NURSING$389,988
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE$238,368
TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH$220,000
HARDIN COUNTY REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER$100,000
RURAL MEDICAL SERVICES$80,000
KIM HEALTH CENTER$50,000
CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY$50,000
FRIENDS IN NEED HEALTH CENTER$50,000
ASCENSION SAINT THOMAS RUTHERFORD$50,000
INTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC$50,000
NASHVILLE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$50,000
TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%COMMUNITY HEALTH OF EAST TN: $50k → 20%COMMUNITY HEALTH OF EAST TN: $30k → 20%COMMUNITY HEALTH OF EAST TN: $20k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$16M · 17 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
17

Total granted

$16M
$699k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+20%

Still filing today

76%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $854k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +56%
  • SH
    Sweetwater Hospital Association
    3× · 2020–2023 · $230k · revenue +36%
  • HC
    HARDIN COUNTY REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • SO
    STATE OF FRANKLIN BLUE RIDGE FAMILY MEDICINE
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • LM
    LINCOLN MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • HC
    HENRY COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Cumberland Medical Center

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.

Health
2
Baptist Community Health Services Inc

Motivated by the love and compassion of christ and in keeping with our baptist heritage, bchs provides quality primary healthcare and behavioral healthcare to individuals in medically underserved communities.

Health
3
HealthFirst Bluegrass Inc

Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.

Health
4
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
5
University Community Health Service

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,…

Health
6
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
7
East Texas Community Clinic Inc

To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.

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8
Henderson County Rural Health Center Inc

To provide medical and dental care to under and uninsured patients

Health
9
Christian Community Health Center

To provide high quality primary health care and related services to the community regardless of the ability to pay, in a manner which demonstrates in work and deed the love of Jesus Christ.

Philanthropy
10
Grace Health Inc

To provide patient-centered healthcare with excellence in quality, service and access.

Health
11
Horizon Health Care Inc

Horizon health care, inc. provides rural communities with access to high-quality, affordable primary healthcare services.

Health
12
Christian Community Care Clinic

To provide medical care to the uninsured.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hardin County Regional Health Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vanderbilt University Medical Center. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCollege Fraternity Organiza…Regional Business & Tourism…Student Academic SupportMemphis Community Developme…Christian K-12 SchoolsHealth Care Systems and Fou…Healthcare Professional Ass…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr16%17%10–20yr13%33%20–35yr11%31%35–55yr28%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr16%64%10–20yr13%11%20–35yr11%10%35–55yr28%16%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/52
the rest of the field
13%
3,325/25,143

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.

04the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 54 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
26/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE — $7,134,818 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEEEAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY — $1,665,162 · OtherEAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITYSTATE OF TENNESSEE — $365,000 · Other+22 more — $1,192,100 · Other+22 moreVanderbilt University Medical Center — $4,309,436 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical CenterSweetwater Hospital Association — $230,000 · Health+23 more — $1,188,774 · Health+23 moreMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE — $878,858 · EducationTENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Education+1 more — $6,500 · EducationCOMMUNITY HEALTH OF EAST TENNESSEE INC — $100,000 · Human Services
Other$10,357,080Health$5,728,210Education$935,358Human Services$100,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $4,309,436 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE — $878,858 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSweetwater Hospital Association — $230,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHARDIN COUNTY REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRIDGEVIEW PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL & CENTER INC — $105,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH OF EAST TENNESSEE INC — $100,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetRUTHERFORD COUNTY PRIMARY CARE CLINIC INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHEALING HANDS HEALTH CENTER INC — $99,384 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetRURAL MEDICAL SERVICES INC — $80,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCovenant Health — $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE — $80,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetKARIS COMMUNITY HEALTH — $75,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetWEST TN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends in Need Health Center Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMACON HOSPITAL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBAPTIST MEMORIAL HOSPITAL-UNION CITY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFree Medical Clinic of America — $50,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetMEDICAL EDUCATION ASSISTANCE CORP — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF SHELBYVILLE AND BEDFORD COUNTY — $50,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSISKIN HOSPITAL FOR PHYSICAL REHABILITATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY HEALTH SERVICES INC — $47,366 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SERVICES INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES — $32,024 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKEYSTONE DENTAL CARE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetChrist Community Health Services Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITIZENS OF LAKE COUNTY FOR HEALTH CARE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSERVOLUTION HEALTH SERVICES INC — $30,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPERRY COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRINITY HEALTH MINISTRIES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetRURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF TE — $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTENNESSEE CHARITABLE CARE NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEE UNIVERSITY — $7,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE ACADEMY OF PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATES — $6,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
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.

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.

Smile 180 FoundationDirect ReliefTennessee Hospital As…The Healing Trust For…The Community Foundat…Tennessee Charitable …Americares Foundation…Sostento IncUnited Way of Middle …East Tennessee Founda…Southern Health Plan …Vanderbilt University
Smile 180 FoundationTN26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Smile 180 Foundation · Direct Relief · Tennessee Hospital Association · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Tennessee Charitable Care Network · Americares Foundation Inc · Sostento Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · East Tennessee Foundation · Southern Health Plan Inc · Vanderbilt University

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 Rural Health Recruitment & Retention Center 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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