· Private foundation
The Unaka Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $100,030 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| GREENE COUNTY YMCA | $15,000 |
| UT FOUNDATION - MATCHING CONTRIBUTION | $5,250 |
| AIDNET OF GREENE COUNTY - MATCHING CONTRIBUTION | $4,050 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| GREENE COUNTY IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENEVILLE | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY - MATCHING CONTRIBUTION | $1,971 |
| CEDAR CREEK MISSION & OUTREACH - MATCHING CONTRIBUTION | $950 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL - MATCHING CONTRIBUTION | $336 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREENE COUNTY - MATCHING CONTRIBUTION | $240 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - MATCHING CONTRIBUTION | $103 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $100 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION - MATCHING CONTRIBUTION | $53 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- IGIndividual grant recipient4× · 2022–2025 · $100k
- LPLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY2× · 2022–2024 · $55k · revenue -21%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREENE COUNTY2× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue -4%
Funded once
- GCGREENEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $117k · revenue -61% · 59% of their budget
- GCGREENE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $59k
- LCLMU COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE - SCHOLARSHIPSone grant, 2022 · $27k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To distribute emergency food assistance to individuals and families in the greenville area, and to cooperate with partnering agencies so that recipients have access to the greatest number of nutritional resources.
To enlist and provide ecumenical Christian support for program and longer term assistance with food, shelter, utlities, and medications for residents of Greeneville and Greene County.
To provide food assistance through a network of partners, while educating and engaging our communities in the elimination of hunger and its causes.
The mission of the food bank of greenwood county is to reduce hunger through community cooperation, effectively distributing donated grocery products and perishable foods, and making the best possible use of all available resources.
Christian youth organization founded to promote christian beliefs in the youth of the community.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
To fight hunger and poverty in northeastern north carolina.
The mission of god's pantry food bank is reducing hunger by working together to feed kentucky communities. god's pantry food bank envisions a nourished life for every kentuckian.
Providing credit union services to members
The mission of the ymca of greenville, following the example of christ, is to build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. we reach out to accomplish this mission through eight ymca locations: five are family branches, one - judson…
Partner to alleviate hunger one meal at a time, to create a future where everyone has access to nourishing food.
To provide emergency and supplemental food to disadvantaged and low income residents of oconee county, south carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Greene County and the most unlike its peers is Greene County Imagination Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 34 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds GREENEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREENE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GREENE COUNTY IMAGINATION LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds AIDNET OF GREENE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Greeneville & Greene County ↗
- Who funds Rural Resources ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds IVY PEARL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: East Tennessee Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 The Unaka Foundation 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.
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.
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