· Private foundation
The William B Stokely Jr Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $153k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| STOKELY MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| COVENANT HEALTH | $10,000 |
| COCKE COUNTY RELIEF FUND | $10,000 |
| JONI AND FRIENDS | $10,000 |
| SMOKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HOME | $5,000 |
| MISSION OF HOPE | $5,000 |
| CONCORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| PAT SUMMIT FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MUSEUM OF APPALACHIA | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE GREAT SMOKY MTN NATI | $1,000 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +99%
- CACHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE6× · 2019–2024 · $105k · revenue +56%
- BCBERRY COLLEGE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $85k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- HCHARRISON CHILHOWEE BAPTIST ACADEMYone grant, 2019 · $10k
- CCCOCKE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $5k
- BBBUFFALO BILL CENTER OF THE WESTone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
See Disclosure Above.
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.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 40 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 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 SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Butler University ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The William B Stokely Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William B Stokely Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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