· Public charity
United Way of Blount County
Uniting people and resources to build a stronger, healthier, and more accessible community for the benefit of all.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $404k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCNABB CENTER | $249,139 |
| ALLOC OTHER COUNTIES UNITED WAY | $239,056 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BLOUNT COUNTY | $116,077 |
| HAVEN HOUSE | $105,980 |
| GOOD NEIGHBORS OF BLOUNT COUNTY | $105,000 |
| SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE | $100,000 |
| BLOUNT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGEN | $84,948 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF BLOUNT COUNTY | $73,500 |
| NEW HOPE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $69,480 |
| TRINITY HEALTH MINISTRIES | $60,000 |
| TRUE PURPOSE MINISTRY | $60,000 |
| COMPASSION COUNSELING | $47,000 |
| BLOUNT COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $44,000 |
| CASA OF THE TN HEARTLAND | $35,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF TN VALLEY | $35,000 |
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, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against -86% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- HRHELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +117%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +56%
- HHHAVEN HOUSE8× · 2017–2024 · $822k · revenue +70% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- ACALLOC-OTHER COUNTIES & UNITED WAYone grant, 2022 · $216k
- CGCLS GRANTS AND EMERGENCY CRISISone grant, 2023 · $35k
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2017 · $15k
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.
To promote independence for persons with disabilities and provide guidance, education, and advocacy.
Tennessee Youth Court (TYC) is a teen-driven juvenile delinquency prevention/intervention diversion program based on restorative justice.
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.
Building homes working families can afford. We are dedicated to: providing new, affordable homes to residents in the South Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee; preparing future and current homeowners to both acquire and maintain a safe and…
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…
Blind early services tn ensures that families are empowered and equipped through specialized programs of support to provide young children who are blind or low vision their absolute best start.
To empower individuals living with disabilities and challenges to gain independence
To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.
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.
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 empower and support people to be valued members of society.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Blount County and the most unlike its peers is Girl Scout Council of the Southern Appalachians 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 42 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 37 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 HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL ↗
- Who funds HAVEN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BLOUNT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBORS OF BLOUNT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF BLOUNT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds BLOUNT COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BLOUNT COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds TRINITY HEALTH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE TENNESSEE HEARTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF TENNESSEE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN COUNCIL 557 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TRUST ↗
- Who funds GATE-GATEWAY TO INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds True Purpose Ministries ↗
- Who funds THE FLORENCE CRITTENTON AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION COUNSELING ↗
- Who funds A PLACE TO STAY ↗
- Who funds THE HEARING AND SPEECH FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds MARYVILLE KIWANIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds ADULT EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF BLOUNT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGY ACCESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM DESIGN MINISTRIES 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Clayton Homes Foundation · East Tennessee Foundation · Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee · Thompson Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc · United Way Clinch-Powell Valley Inc · Akima Club Inc · United Way of Loudon County Inc · The Melrose Foundation · Gene & Florence Monday Foundation Inc · United Way of Sevier County · Variety of Eastern Tennessee
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 Way of Blount 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.