· Private foundation
The Valentine 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, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| OLIVE TREE EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| CONNECT MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| CARE CUTS | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY | $10,000 |
| KNOXVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| THE CHANGE CENTER | $2,500 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CMCONNECT MINISTRIES2× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue -50%
- 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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 13 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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Valentine Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Valentine Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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