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The Governor's Foundation for Health and Wellness

The mission of THE GOVERNOR'S FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH AND WELLNESS is to encourage and enable more tennesseans to lead healthier lives.

$74k
Granted FY2019
1
Itemized grants FY2019
1
Organizations funded FY2019
100%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Itemized, FY2019
$6k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2019
$6,031
Largest grant, FY2019
$6,031
Organizations funded a year
1 to 31
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 100% of the organizations The Governor's Foundation for Health and Wellness funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
HealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHuman 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20191$6k100%
FY201831$160k100%
FY201721$105kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Recreation & Sports$80kHealth$55kEducation$45kCommunity Improvement$31kFood & Nutrition$25kHuman Services$10kPublic Benefit$10kEnvironment$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
First Christian Church$7,5001n/a
United Way of Robertson Co$7,5001n/a
Common Table Health Alliance$6,03111%
Clay County Govt$5,0001n/a
Fayette County Government$5,0001n/a
Lake County High School$5,0001n/a
Wayne County Government$5,0001n/a
Cheatham County$5,0001n/a
Van Buren County Schools$5,0001n/a
Houston Lions Charity Inc$5,0001n/a
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All grantees of The Governor's Foundation for Health and Wellness by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
First Christian Church$7,5001n/a
United Way of Robertson Co$7,5001n/a
Common Table Health Alliance$6,03111%
Clay County Govt$5,0001n/a
Fayette County Government$5,0001n/a
Lake County High School$5,0001n/a
Wayne County Government$5,0001n/a
Cheatham County$5,0001n/a
Van Buren County Schools$5,0001n/a
Houston Lions Charity Inc$5,0001n/a
Pickett County Government$5,0001n/a
Campbell County Health Council$5,0001n/a
Lawrence County Government$5,0001n/a
Marshall County Health Department$5,0001n/a
Dekalb County Government$5,0001n/a
Warren County Schools$5,0001n/a
White County School District$5,0001n/a
Williamson County Government$5,0001n/a
Morgan Co Board of Education$5,0001n/a
City of Jamestown$5,0001n/a
United Way of ElizabethtonCarter County$5,00013%
Monroe Co Community Health Access Committee Inc$5,00012%
Arlington Chamber of Commerce$5,0001n/a
City of Pikeville$5,0001n/a
Tipton County Government$5,0001n/a
Bodenham Community Club$5,0001n/a
Humphreys County Community Health Services Inc$5,00010%
Healthier Crossville$5,0001n/a
Laughlin Health Care Foundation$5,0001n/a
Perry County Medical Center Inc$5,00010%
Anderson County EMS$5,0001n/a
The University of Tennessee$5,0001n/a
Bartlett Chamber Foundation$5,0001n/a
Lincoln County Government$5,0001n/a
Grainger County School District$5,0001n/a
Lauderdale Co Government$5,0001n/a
State of Tennessee$5,0001n/a
Jefferson County Health Council$5,0001n/a
Healthy Hamblen$5,0001n/a
YMCA of Memphis & the Mid-South$5,00010%
City of Collegedale$5,0001n/a
Dickson County Family Young Mens Christian Associ$5,00011%
Hancock County$5,0001n/a
Spring Hill Parks & Recreation$5,0001n/a
Roane County Health Council$5,0001n/a
Smith County Government$5,0001n/a
Cannon County Government$5,0001n/a
Stewart Co Healthy Schools$5,0001n/a
Grundy County Tennessee$5,0001n/a
Hawkins County Health Dept$5,0001n/a
Sequatchie County$5,0001n/a
Trousdale County Health Council$5,0001n/a
Claiborne Co Chamber of Comm$5,0001n/a

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.

Save The Children Federation IncCT12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Save The Children Federation Inc · 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.

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Find your warmest path to The Governor's Foundation for Health and Wellness through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Governor's Foundation for Health and Wellness

How much does The Governor's Foundation for Health and Wellness give?
The Governor's Foundation for Health and Wellness reported 1 itemized grants totaling $6,031, out of $74,031 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does The Governor's Foundation for Health and Wellness fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (30%), Health (20%), Education (17%).
Who are The Governor's Foundation for Health and Wellness's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: First Christian Church ($8k), United Way of Robertson Co ($8k), Common Table Health Alliance ($6k).
Does The Governor's Foundation for Health and Wellness fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Governor's Foundation for Health and Wellness?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Save The Children Federation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Governor's Foundation for Health and Wellness based?
The Governor's Foundation for Health and Wellness is based in TN.

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 53 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2020) is on record and reports $1.6M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2019, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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