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United Fund of Cumberland County

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$370k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
35
Itemized grants FY2024
32
Organizations funded FY2023
9%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$358k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$28,000
Organizations funded a year
32 to 36
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$664k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 9% of the organizations United Fund of Cumberland County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Housing & ShelterPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving35$358k14%
FY202332$338k9%
FY202233$329k6%
FY202136$358k17%
FY202033$310kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$356kHousing & Shelter$285kHealth$252kFood & Nutrition$195kYouth Development$193kArts & Culture$112kAnimals$90kReligion$42kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hilltoppers Inc$140,50050%
Kids on the Rise$105,000527%
The Avalon Center Inc$92,77451%
Crab Orchard Care Center$55,0005n/a
Creative Compassion Inc$51,25054%
Azalea Gardens Inc$46,000510%
Invitation Ministries$42,00059%
The Crossville Housing Development Corp$38,30044%
Youth Achievement Foundation Inc$37,5005n/a
The Arc Cumberland County$37,500515%
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All grantees of United Fund of Cumberland County by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hilltoppers Inc$140,50050%
Kids on the Rise$105,000527%
The Avalon Center Inc$92,77451%
Crab Orchard Care Center$55,0005n/a
Creative Compassion Inc$51,25054%
Azalea Gardens Inc$46,000510%
Invitation Ministries$42,00059%
The Crossville Housing Development Corp$38,30044%
Youth Achievement Foundation Inc$37,5005n/a
The Arc Cumberland County$37,500515%
L B J & C Development Corporation$28,50050%
Fairfield Glade Fire Department$28,15333%
Tennessee 4-H Foundation Inc$24,21550%
Cumberland Good Samaritans Inc$2,25010%

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($963k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

United Fund of Cumberland County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHilltoppers Inc: $140,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKids on the Rise: $105,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetThe Avalon Center Inc: $92,774 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCreative Compassion Inc: $51,250 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetAzalea Gardens Inc: $46,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetInvitation Ministries: $42,000 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetThe Crossville Housing Development Corp: $38,300 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetThe Arc Cumberland County: $37,500 over 5y, 15% of budgetL B J & C Development Corporation: $28,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFairfield Glade Fire Department: $28,153 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTennessee 4-H Foundation Inc: $24,215 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCumberland Good Samaritans Inc: $2,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to United Fund of Cumberland County?

Find your warmest path to United Fund of Cumberland County through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About United Fund of Cumberland County

How much does United Fund of Cumberland County give?
United Fund of Cumberland County reported 35 itemized grants totaling $358,182, out of $369,682 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 36 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does United Fund of Cumberland County fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Housing & Shelter (17%), Health (15%).
Who are United Fund of Cumberland County's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Hilltoppers Inc ($141k), Kids on the Rise ($105k), The Avalon Center Inc ($93k).
Does United Fund of Cumberland County fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Fund of Cumberland County?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is United Fund of Cumberland County based?
United Fund of Cumberland County is based in TN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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