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United Fund of Cumberland County
Raise funds/local charities
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 35 grants below total $358,182 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $369,682 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,500 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
- Under $10k17 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $279k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HILLTOPPERS INC | $28,000 |
| AVALON CENTER | $21,280 |
| CHRISTIAN COUNSELING CENTER | $21,000 |
| CUMB CO RESCUE SQUAD | $21,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| KIDS ON THE RISE | $20,000 |
| THE EXCHANGESTEPHENS CENTER | $16,000 |
| CUMB ADULT READING COUNCIL | $16,000 |
| CUMBERLAND HOUSE HOSPICE | $15,000 |
| CUMB PREVENTION COALITION | $14,000 |
| CRAB ORCHARD CARE CENTER | $13,000 |
| HOMESTEAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $12,000 |
| INVITATION MINISTRIES | $11,000 |
| CROSSVILLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP | $10,500 |
| TICA | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $141k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
39 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- HIHILLTOPPERS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $141k · revenue +7%
- KOKIDS ON THE RISE5× · 2020–2024 · $105k · revenue +41% · 27% of their budget
- TATHE AVALON CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $93k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- CRCHA RESIDENT COUNCILone grant, 2020 · $9k
- UVUPLANDS VILLAGE SUMMER CAMPone grant, 2021 · $7k
- FCFOUR CS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $4k
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.
Assisted living facility for disabled
Provide low income housing
To provide housing for low income, elderly persons.
To acquire and distribute resouces to bring relief to those in financial need in chattooga county and to walk out the words of jesus.
Provide subsidized housing (37 unit complex) for elderly and handicapped low income seniors under section 202 of the national housing act and the u.s. department of housing and urban development.
Christ centered ministry that provides food, rent, utility and medicine support for local individuals who are in need.
Crossroads urban center provides food, clothing, and housing assistance services to low-income individuals and minorities.
Provide long-term residential services to persons having medically diagnosed disabilities attributable to mental retardation, cerebral palsy, autism, or epilepsy.
Cch builds and manages quality affordable housing in caring communities.
The Anderson County Community Action Commission provides food, clothing, household foods, and essential assistance to low-income residents of Anderson County, Tennessee. The organization operates a community food pantry, clothing closet,…
WE WERE ESTABLISHED to provide shelter and rehablitation SERVICES for the homeless. We provide individuals living quarters for up to 90 days. We train them in employment, financial, AND HOUSING MATTERS. WE PROVIDE HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS AND…
Provide residential care for elderly individuals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cumberland Good Samaritans Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Avalon Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 49 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 HILLTOPPERS INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS ON THE RISE ↗
- Who funds THE AVALON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Crab Orchard Care Center ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE COMPASSION INC ↗
- Who funds AZALEA GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds INVITATION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE CROSSVILLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds THE ARC CUMBERLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds L B J & C DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD GLADE FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE 4-H FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: 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 United Fund of Cumberland County 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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