Tennessee · Private foundation
The Valentine Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $78k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 6
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $798k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations The Valentine Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $78k | 63% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $10k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $67k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connect Ministries | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Vall | $17,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Carecuts Inc | $16,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Knoxville Leadership Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Restoration House | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Shangri-La Therapeutic Academy of Riding Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Olive Tree Early Learning Academy | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Knoxville Habitat for Humanity Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Change Center | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($39k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Valentine Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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: Lawson Family Foundation · Thompson Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Valentine Foundation Inc
- How much does The Valentine Foundation Inc give?
- The Valentine Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $77,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does The Valentine Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (19%), Human Services (16%), Youth Development (16%).
- Who are The Valentine Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Connect Ministries ($20k), Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Vall ($17k), Carecuts Inc ($16k).
- Does The Valentine Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Valentine Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Valentine Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lawson Family Foundation, Thompson Charitable Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
- Where is The Valentine Foundation Inc based?
- The Valentine Foundation Inc is based in TN.
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