· Public charity
Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee
TRINITY HEALTH FOUNDATION OF EAST TENNESSEE extends the healing ministry of jesus by improving the physical, emotional and spiritual health of our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $1,483,264 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,630,764 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $147,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $104k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $895k
- $250k+1 grant · $484k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TN STATE COLLAB ON REFORMING EDUC | $484,245 |
| REMOTE AREA MEDICAL | $165,000 |
| THE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC | $164,000 |
| INTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER | $161,768 |
| REBOOT RECOVERY | $74,251 |
| FRIENDS OF TN BABIES SPECIAL NEEDS | $55,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN GREATER KNOXVILLE | $55,000 |
| THE CHANGE CENTER | $55,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF TENNESSEE VALLEY | $55,000 |
| HOPE RESOURCE CENTER | $55,000 |
| OPERATION INASMUCH INC | $55,000 |
| HOMESOURCE EAST TENNESSEE | $15,000 |
| OLIVE TREE EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOC OF EAST TN | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +82% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 7 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $693k 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
- KAKNOX AREA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC4× · 2019–2023 · $670k · revenue +138%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL3× · 2020–2022 · $375k · revenue +45%
- EVEMORY VALLEY CENTER INC3× · 2019–2023 · $346k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- SISEEED INCone grant, 2023 · $165k · revenue -10%
- JRJEFFERSON RURAL CLINIC INCone grant, 2017 · $157k · revenue -51%
- CUCOKESBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $128k
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.
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.
By creating a safe and structured two year residential program the Hope House of Tennessee will aim to equip and empower personal and educational growth economic self-sufficiency and a deeper understanding of Christs unconditional love.
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…
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
We are a christ-centered intensive outpatient treatment center located in knoxville tn. our iop model follows a 12-week program that is christ-centered and clinically informed.
Our mission is to affirm the value of life by providing a network of care. We strive to empower mothers and fathers experiencing planned and unplanned pregnancies with healthy options through medical services, education, mentoring and…
Mental health cooperative inc. (mhc) provides integrated health services that include behavioral health care, primary health care, addiction services, and community-based care management. mhc also provides emergency psychiatric services…
Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…
Provide behavioral health services to clients located in middle and east tennessee
To provide no-cost health care to families who have no insurance and do not qualify for the states low income insurance program.
To reduce homelessness and improve family stability by increasing housing resources, administration of hud-mckinney vento funds, and support services through collaborative efforts with partner organizations, when available.
Volunteer East Tennessee inspires service by equipping organizations and mobilizing volunteers to connect with one another and strengthen communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Restoration House of East Tennessee and the most unlike its peers is East Knox Free Medical Clinic Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
94 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. 94 of the 103 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 KNOX AREA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL ↗
- Who funds EMORY VALLEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Free Medical Clinic of America ↗
- Who funds REMOTE AREA MEDICAL ↗
- Who funds THE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Free Medical Clinic of Oak Ridge ↗
- Who funds STREET HOPE TN ↗
- Who funds HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SUSANNAH'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOCUS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MID-EAST COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds SEEED INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON RURAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF LOUDON COU ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN HOPE GOOD SHEPHERD CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds REBOOT RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds SOAR YOUTH MINISTRIES INC THRIVE LONSDALE ↗
- Who funds CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds THE CHANGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds True Purpose Ministries ↗
- Who funds Nourish Knoxville Inc ↗
- Who funds Operation Inasmuch Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRL TALK INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds VET TO VET TENNESSEE ↗
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: East Tennessee Foundation · United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · Thompson Charitable Foundation · The Clayton Homes Foundation · Bill and Crissy Haslam Foundation · Akima Club Inc · Lawson Family Foundation · Gene & Florence Monday Foundation Inc · Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc · Jane L Pettway Foundation · The Melrose 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 Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee 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.