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United Way of Blount County

Uniting people and resources to build a stronger, healthier, and more accessible community for the benefit of all.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$249k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$3.9MHealth$2.8MYouth Development$1.8MCrime & Legal$1.3MHousing & Shelter$1.2MPhilanthropy$681kEducation$275kFood & Nutrition$210kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $404k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.3M
$35,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
TRUE PURPOSE MINISTRY$60,000
TRINITY HEALTH MINISTRIES$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BLOUNT COUNTY COMM ACTION AGCY: $99k → 10%BLOUNT COUNTY COMM ACTION AGCY: $89k → 10%BLOUNT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGEN: $85k → 10%BLOUNT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGEN: $85k → 10%BLOUNT COUNTY COMM ACTION AGCY: $84k → 10%BLOUNT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGEN: $80k → 10%BLOUNT COUNTY COMM ACTION AGCY: $79k → 10%BLOUNT COUNTY COMM ACTION AGCY: $68k → 10%A PLACE TO STAY: $33k → 10%A PLACE TO STAY: $30k → 10%A PLACE TO STAY: $27k → 10%A PLACE TO STAY: $19k → 10%HAVEN HOUSE: $122k → 10%HAVEN HOUSE: $120k → 10%HAVEN HOUSE: $119k → 10%HAVEN HOUSE: $106k → 10%HAVEN HOUSE: $102k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $95k → 10%HAVEN HOUSE: $91k → 10%HAVEN HOUSE: $85k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $82k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $79k → 10%HAVEN HOUSE: $77k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $74k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $74k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $72k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $70k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $63k → 10%GOOD NEIGHBORS OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $135k → 10%GOOD NEIGHBORS OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $121k → 10%GOOD NEIGHBORS OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $105k → 10%SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE: $100k → 10%SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE: $100k → 10%GOOD NEIGHBORS OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $90k → 10%SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE: $63k → 10%SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE: $60k → 10%SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE: $55k → 10%SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE: $55k → 10%SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE: $53k → 10%SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE: $50k → 10%GOOD NEIGHBORS OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $50k → 10%GOOD NEIGHBORS: $50k → 10%GOOD NEIGHBORS: $46k → 10%GOOD NEIGHBORS: $34k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 32 repeat orgs$308k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against -86% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
4

Total granted

$12M
$281k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
-86%

Still filing today

81%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthHousing & ShelterReligionCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HR
    HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +117%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +56%
  • HH
    HAVEN HOUSE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $822k · revenue +70% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

  • AC
    ALLOC-OTHER COUNTIES & UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2022 · $216k
  • CG
    CLS GRANTS AND EMERGENCY CRISIS
    one grant, 2023 · $35k
  • KD
    KINGDOM DESIGN MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -86%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Empower Tennessee

To promote independence for persons with disabilities and provide guidance, education, and advocacy.

Human Services
2
Blount County Youth Court Inc

Tennessee Youth Court (TYC) is a teen-driven juvenile delinquency prevention/intervention diversion program based on restorative justice.

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3
Hope House of Tennessee Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
4
Michael Dunn Center

To empower individuals living with disabilities and challenges to gain independence

Human Services
5
Access Services of Middle Tennessee

Provides support services to individuals with disabilities in the form of outreach, training education, consultants and referrals requarding use of assistive technologies.

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6
Blind-Visually Impaired Early Services of Tennesse

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.

Youth Development
7
The Mend House Sober Living Community

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…

Health
8
Pacesetters Inc

To empower and support people to be valued members of society.

Human Services
9
Volunteer East Tennessee

Volunteer East Tennessee inspires service by equipping organizations and mobilizing volunteers to connect with one another and strengthen communities.

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10
New Life Tn

To foster, develop, promote, and operate a combination of formal programs, services, and appropriate supports over a sustained period that will maximize the quality of life and functional abilities for intellectually and developmentally…

Human Services
11
Tennessee Children's Home Inc

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…

Human Services
12
Tennessee Fair Housing Council

The Tennessee Fair Housing Council is a private, nonprofit advocacy organization whose mission is to eliminate housing discrimination throughout Tennessee. The enforcement program is based in Nashville, TN and concentrates on the middle…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tennessee Educational Cooperative; 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.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 37 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/30
Grantees still filing
23/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAVEN HOUSE: $822,204 · Human ServicesHAVEN HOUSEBLOUNT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $669,776 · Human ServicesBLOUNT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION A…GOOD NEIGHBORS OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $631,217 · Human ServicesGOOD NEIGHBORS OF BLOUNT COUNTYFAMILY PROMISE OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $607,985 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF BLOUNT COUNTYSENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE SERVICE INC: $535,584 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE …GATE-GATEWAY TO INDEPENDENCE: $142,177 · Human Services+1 more: $108,217 · Human ServicesALLOC-OTHER COUNTIES & UNITED WAYS: $955,414 · OtherALLOC-OTHER COUNTIES & UNITED WAY…LEGAL AID OF EAST TENNESSEE: $566,583 · OtherLEGAL AID OF EAST TENNESSEEALLOC OTHER COUNTIES UNITED WAY: $465,575 · OtherALLOC OTHER COUNTIES UNITED WAYBLOUNT COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $306,180 · OtherBLOUNT COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANIT…ALLOC-OTHER COUNTIES & UNITED WAY: $215,817 · OtherALLOC-OTHER COUNTIES & UNITED WAYSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE: $210,375 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST …EAST TN KIDNEY FOUNDATION: $174,733 · OtherTHE FLORENCE CRITTENTON AGENCY INC: $138,000 · OtherTrue Purpose Ministries: $140,000 · OtherCOMPASSION COUNSELING: $127,000 · Other+9 more: $354,561 · Other+9 moreHELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC: $1,995,449 · HealthHELEN ROSS MCNABB CEN…TRINITY HEALTH MINISTRIES INC: $296,000 · HealthTRINITY HEALTH MINIST…+1 more: $52,625 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL: $1,319,099 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLU…GIRLS INCORPORATED OF TENNESSEE VALLEY: $192,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORAT…GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN COUNCIL 557 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TRUST: $154,044 · Youth DevelopmentGREAT SMOKY MOUN…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST TENNESSEE INC: $127,878 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG…+1 more: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentBLOUNT COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $472,070 · Crime & LegalCASA OF THE TENNESSEE HEARTLAND INC: $236,125 · Civil RightsTENNESSEE EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE: $223,475 · Education
Human Services$3,517,160Other$3,654,238Health$2,344,074Youth Development$1,838,521Crime & Legal$472,070Civil Rights$236,125Education$223,475

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC: $1,995,449 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL: $1,319,099 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetHAVEN HOUSE: $822,204 over 8y, 30% of budgetBLOUNT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $669,776 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBORS OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $631,217 over 8y, 31% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $607,985 over 8y, 24% of budgetLEGAL AID OF EAST TENNESSEE: $566,583 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE SERVICE INC: $535,584 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetBLOUNT COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $472,070 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetBLOUNT COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $306,180 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetTRINITY HEALTH MINISTRIES INC: $296,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetCASA OF THE TENNESSEE HEARTLAND INC: $236,125 over 8y, 14% of budgetTENNESSEE EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE: $223,475 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE: $210,375 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF TENNESSEE VALLEY: $192,500 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetGREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN COUNCIL 557 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TRUST: $154,044 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetGATE-GATEWAY TO INDEPENDENCE: $142,177 over 8y, 19% of budgetTrue Purpose Ministries: $140,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetTHE FLORENCE CRITTENTON AGENCY INC: $138,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST TENNESSEE INC: $127,878 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetCOMPASSION COUNSELING: $127,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetA PLACE TO STAY: $108,217 over 4y, 25% of budgetTHE HEARING AND SPEECH FOUNDATIONINC: $70,000 over 7y, 8.1% of budgetMARYVILLE KIWANIS FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF EAST TENNESSEE: $52,625 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGY ACCESS CENTER INC: $43,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFOOTHILLS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC: $27,300 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetKINGDOM DESIGN MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

The Clayton Homes Fou…East Tennessee Founda…Trinity Health Founda…Thompson Charitable F…United Way of Greater…United Way Clinch-Pow…Akima Club IncUnited Way of Loudon …The Melrose FoundationGene & Florence Monda…United Way of Sevier …Variety of Eastern Te…
The Clayton Homes FoundationTN28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of Blount County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Blount County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 37 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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