· Private foundation
The Unaka Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| GREENE COUNTY IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 Rural Resources ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Greeneville & Greene County ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds IVY PEARL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Unaka Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Unaka Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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