· Public charity
United Way of Bristol Tn-Va Inc
The mission of the united way of bristol is to bring together the resources to help people in the regional community to live healthy and productive lives.
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.
The 20 grants below total $642,606 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $662,106 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,500 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 $10k4 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $212k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $399k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIRLS INC | $90,000 |
| YWCA | $80,079 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $67,855 |
| BOY SCOUTS - SEQUOYAH COUNCIL | $55,000 |
| HEALING HANDS HEALTH CENTER | $53,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE MOUNTAIN E | $52,890 |
| BRISTOL FAITH IN ACTION | $40,190 |
| YMCA | $36,941 |
| ABUSE AALTERNATIVES | $33,000 |
| CASA | $26,000 |
| BRISTOL REGIONAL SPEECH & HEARING | $16,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $15,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF BRISTOL | $15,000 |
| BRISTOL REG COUNSELING CENTYER | $10,000 |
| CAC OF SULLIVAN COUNTY | $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 (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 98% 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.
25 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- GIGirls Incorporated of Bristol8× · 2017–2024 · $615k · revenue +111%
- BGBoys & Girls Club of the Mountain Empire8× · 2017–2024 · $548k · revenue +56%
- HHHEALING HANDS HEALTH CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $438k · revenue +148%
Funded once
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.
Provide advocacy services for abused children in Central Alabama.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.
Strengthens families and serve sexual assault victims
To inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential productive, responsible and caring citizens.
Tennessee Youth Court (TYC) is a teen-driven juvenile delinquency prevention/intervention diversion program based on restorative justice.
To be the voice for children who have been victims of abuse and/or neglect. Our vision is to serve every child in the Cheaha Region by providing them with a caring and competent trained volunteer.
Advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.
The mission of the united way of bristol is to bring together the resources to help people in the regional community to live healthy and productive lives. united way bristol works with dozens of community partner agencies that provide…
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens
To operate a community center for the benefit of the Boys and Girls Club Association, Inc. and The Family Center, Inc.
To provide a child-focused approach to the intervention, treatment, prevention, and prosecution of child abuse cases. to provide free therapy to child abuse victims and age appropriate awareness in our school systems.
Child Advocates of Connecticut (CAC) transforms the lives of vulnerable children and youth by providing trained and supervised one-on-one volunteer advocates in the community, classroom and courtroom.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bristol Faith in Action Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rivers Way Outdoor Adventure. 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 45 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 25 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 YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION NORTHEAST TN AND SOUTHWEST VA ↗
- Who funds Girls Incorporated of Bristol ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of the Mountain Empire ↗
- Who funds HEALING HANDS HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL FAITH IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association ↗
- Who funds ABUSE ALTERNATIVESINC ↗
- Who funds Boy Scouts of America Council 713 Sequoyah ↗
- Who funds CASA for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds FRONTIER HEALTH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL REGIONAL SPEECH & HEARING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Bristol Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SULLIVAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Rivers Way Outdoor Adventure ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds Sullivan County Imagination Library ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL LIFE SAVING CREW INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST TENNESSEE HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL AND DEVE LOPMENTAL OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF EAST 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: Speedway Children's Charities · The United Company Foundation · Food City Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc · The James W and Frances Gibson McGlothlin Foundation · Massengill-Defriece Foundation Inc · The Joe W and Frankie Mae Street Foundat · Wellmont Health System · Clarke Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Way of Bristol Tn-Va Inc 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.