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Tennessee Rural Health Recruitment & Retention Center Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$17MEducation$357kRecreation & Sports$50kReligion$50k
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 31 grants below total $4,559,984, the rows itemized in this filing. The $9,236,603 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,676,619 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 $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
UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS$50,000
JACKSON-MADISON COUNTY GENERAL HOSPITAL$50,000
CHATTANOOGA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$50,000
BAPTIST MEMORIAL HOSPITAL-UNION CITY$50,000
TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF APPLIED TECHNOLOGY$50,000
ASCENSION SAINT THOMAS RUTHERFORD$50,000
TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY$50,000
CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY$50,000
02The need
03

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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Its 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 its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +34% for those 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%
+34%

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
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

  • 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
  • CC
    COMMUNITY CLINIC OF SHELBYVILLE AND BEDFORD COUNTY
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -1%
  • HC
    HENRY COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hardin County Regional Health Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
29/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetRUTHERFORD COUNTY PRIMARY CARE CLINIC INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH OF EAST TENNESSEE INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHEALING HANDS HEALTH CENTER INC: $99,384 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCovenant Health: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE: $80,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRURAL MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $80,000 over 1y, 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 budgetCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF SHELBYVILLE AND BEDFORD COUNTY: $50,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMACON HOSPITAL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFree Medical Clinic of America: $50,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetMEDICAL EDUCATION ASSISTANCE CORP: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAPTIST MEMORIAL HOSPITAL-UNION CITY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends in Need Health Center Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% 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 budgetPERRY COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSERVOLUTION HEALTH SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCITIZENS OF LAKE COUNTY FOR HEALTH CARE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetChrist Community Health Services Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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
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.

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

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 Rural Health Recruitment & Retention Center Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tennessee Rural Health Recruitment & Retention Center Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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