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· Private foundation

The William B Stokely Jr Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$372k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$205k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Education$1.5MReligion$189kHealth$112kInternational$30kArts & Culture$26kEnvironment$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kHuman Services$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $153k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $205k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION$205,000
BERRY COLLEGE INC$35,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH CONCORD$30,000
CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOX$30,000
Individual grant recipient$18,000
COVENANT HEALTH$10,000
COCKE COUNTY RELIEF FUND$10,000
JONI AND FRIENDS$10,000
STOKELY MEMORIAL LIBRARY$10,000
SMOKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HOME$5,000
MISSION OF HOPE$5,000
CONCORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$1,000
MUSEUM OF APPALACHIA$1,000
PAT SUMMIT FOUNDATION$1,000
FRIENDS OF THE GREAT SMOKY MTN NATI$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%SMOKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 17 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
17

Total granted

$1.8M
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+67%

Still filing today

65%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther

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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +99%
  • CA
    CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $105k · revenue +56%
  • BC
    BERRY COLLEGE INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $85k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • HC
    HARRISON CHILHOWEE BAPTIST ACADEMY
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • CC
    COCKE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
2
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
3
Claiborne Medical Center

Claiborne Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
4
Roane County Medical Center

Roane County Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
5
Union University

Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education
6
Tennessee Health Care Association

To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.

7
Knoxville Museum of Art

The purpose of the knoxville museum of art is to support and promote public interest, awareness, knowledge and education in the visual arts in east tennessee . to this end, the corporation shall, among other things, develop permanent…

Arts & Culture
8
Knoxville Academy of Medicine

The academy serves as the local medica society for physicians of knox county and surrounding counties in east tennessee. its purpose is to afford a medium for free discussion and exchange of ideas among physicians.

9
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
10
Fort Loudoun Medical Center

Fort Loudoun Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
11
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
12
LeConte Medical Center

LeConte Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Smoky Mountain Children's Home and the most unlike its peers is East Tennessee Children's Hospital 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.

04the grantee network

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
16/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC — $1,230,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INCCHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE — $105,250 · EducationCHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLEBERRY COLLEGE INC — $85,000 · EducationBERRY COLLEGE INC+2 more — $1,250 · EducationFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — $105,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHUR…JONI AND FRIENDS — $73,750 · OtherJONI AND FRIENDSIndividual grant recipient — $69,000 · OtherIndividual grant r…+20 more — $60,766 · Other+20 moreEAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC — $31,250 · HealthCovenant Health — $10,000 · HealthMISSION OF HOPE — $30,000 · Human ServicesSMOKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HOME — $5,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesEast Tennessee Historical Society Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF APPALACHIA — $8,000 · Arts & CultureDOGWOOD ARTS INC — $1,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK — $15,200 · Recreation & SportsWOMEN'S BASKETBALL HALL OF FAMEINC — $1,000 · Recreation & SportsKNOX AREA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC — $2,000 · Housing & ShelterKeep Knoxville Beautiful Inc — $1,200 · Environment
Education$1,421,500Other$308,516Health$41,250Human Services$36,000Arts & Culture$19,500Recreation & Sports$16,200Housing & Shelter$2,000Environment$1,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC — $1,230,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE — $105,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBERRY COLLEGE INC — $85,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJONI AND FRIENDS — $73,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC — $31,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION OF HOPE — $30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK — $15,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEast Tennessee Historical Society Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCovenant Health — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF APPALACHIA — $8,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSMOKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HOME — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKNOX AREA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOGWOOD ARTS INC — $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKeep Knoxville Beautiful Inc — $1,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S BASKETBALL HALL OF FAMEINC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE SERVICE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetButler University — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE
  • Who funds BERRY COLLEGE INC
  • Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS
  • Who funds EAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds MISSION OF HOPE
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK
  • Who funds East Tennessee Historical Society Inc
  • Who funds Covenant Health
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF APPALACHIA
  • Who funds SMOKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HOME
  • Who funds KNOX AREA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds DOGWOOD ARTS INC
  • Who funds Keep Knoxville Beautiful Inc
  • Who funds WOMEN'S BASKETBALL HALL OF FAMEINC
  • Who funds LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE SERVICE INC
  • Who funds Butler University

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.

East Tennessee FoundationTN25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Tennessee Foundation · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc · The Clayton Family Foundation · Bill and Crissy Haslam Foundation · The Clayton Homes Foundation · Battelle Memorial Institute · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 William B Stokely Jr Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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