· Private foundation
The Valentine 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 FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALANO CLUB OF KNOXVILLE | $15,000 |
| KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY | $10,000 |
| OLIVE TREE EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| CARE CUTS | $10,000 |
| CONNECT MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| KNOXVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| THE CHANGE CENTER | $2,500 |
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 (FY23–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 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, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
- CMCONNECT MINISTRIES2× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue -56%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL2× · 2023–2025 · $17k · revenue +3%
- CICARECUTS INC2× · 2023–2025 · $16k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- HTHEALING THE HOMEone grant, 2023 · $19k
- TRTHE RESTORATION HOUSEone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -24%
- STSHANGRI-LA THERAPEUTIC ACADEMY OF RIDING INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +33%
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.
The Mend House is a sober living community for men, in Knoxville, Tn. which empowers them to gain control over their actions, decisions and choices. The Mend House allows men to enjoy clean, sober and stable housing for up to 2 years while…
People who have just been released from prison are typically stigmatized, overlooked, and pigeonholed by society. when they walk into project return, they discover that here they are valued, heard, and encouraged. while reduction of…
To provide residential recover programs to and rehabilitate individuals dealing with substance abuse addictions to enter society as productive members
Goodwill industries-knoxville, inc. (the organization") is a nonprofit corporation. our mission at goodwill industries-knoxville, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is changing lives and strengthening families by helping people reach…
The remnant house, located in lee county, mississippi provides men and women with a faith-based christian transitional living home and recovery program. our christ-centered one year transitional living recovery program allows an individual…
A community based recovery center that provides transitional and long term housng to our vecterans, ex-offendrs and those who are coming from drug additon programs needing housng
Tennessee Kids Belong dramatically improves the experiences and outcomes for children in foster care.
Our Mission at Welcome House Knoxville is to share the love of Jesus through the ministries of hospitality and friendship. We provide safe and loving homes for individuals and families in transition to permanent housing.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Faith based residential program that will provide a safe environment for women to be transformed from teh inside out. a place that helps women bring order, accountability, and a strong spiritual foundation where there has been chaos, lack…
Knoxville area urban league, inc.'s mission is to enable african americans, other minority groups and the underserved to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.
To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Knoxville Habitat for Humanity Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 13 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 CONNECT MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL ↗
- Who funds CARECUTS INC ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESTORATION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SHANGRI-LA THERAPEUTIC ACADEMY OF RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds OLIVE TREE EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHANGE CENTER ↗
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: 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
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 Valentine 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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