Tennessee · Private foundation
The Unaka Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $161k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 73%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $950
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,030
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 11
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 73% of the organizations The Unaka Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $161k | 60% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $70k | 73% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $91k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $206k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greeneville City Schools Foundation | $116,600 | 1 | 59% |
| Lincoln Park Zoological Society | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greene County | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Greene County Imagination Library | $5,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Aidnet of Greene County Inc | $4,050 | 1 | n/a |
| Rural Resources | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Greeneville & Greene County | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Harvest Hope Food Bank | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $100 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greeneville City Schools Foundation | $116,600 | 1 | 59% |
| Lincoln Park Zoological Society | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greene County | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Greene County Imagination Library | $5,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Aidnet of Greene County Inc | $4,050 | 1 | n/a |
| Rural Resources | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Greeneville & Greene County | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Harvest Hope Food Bank | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| Ivy Pearl Foundation Inc | $26 | 1 | n/a |
| Isaiah 117 House | $25 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($319k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Unaka Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: East Tennessee Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Unaka Foundation Inc
- How much does The Unaka Foundation Inc give?
- The Unaka Foundation Inc reported 20 grants totaling $160,747 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 11 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does The Unaka Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (27%), Education (23%), Human Services (5%).
- Who are The Unaka Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Greeneville City Schools Foundation ($117k), Lincoln Park Zoological Society ($55k), Young Men's Christian Association of Greene County ($20k).
- Does The Unaka Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 73% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Unaka Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Unaka Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Tennessee Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Unaka Foundation Inc based?
- The Unaka Foundation Inc is based in TN.
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