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United Way of East Tennessee Highlands Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of poverty in our community.

$247k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Itemized grants FY2025
27
Organizations funded FY2024
30%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$202k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$16,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 27
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$3.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations United Way of East Tennessee Highlands Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’22’24
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
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
FY2025still arriving12$202k0%
FY202427$596k30%
FY202216$451k50%
FY202013$504k8%
FY201916$745k6%
FY201815$1.1Mn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Youth Development$1.6MHuman Services$862kHealth$281kPublic Safety & Disaster$190kPhilanthropy$184kHousing & Shelter$183kEmployment$111kFood & Nutrition$42kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 30 grantees
All grantees of United Way of East Tennessee Highlands Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Salvation Army$586,0005n/a
Boys & Girls Club of Johnson City Washington County$527,500619%
The Coalition for Kids Inc$489,000611%
Girls Incorporated of Johnson City$406,100557%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$190,00060%
Frontier Health$142,25060%
Family Promise of Greater Johnson City Inc$119,25067%
First Tennessee Human Resource Agency$111,40041%
Arc of Washington Co Inc$111,00052%
Girl Scouts$90,5003n/a
City of Johnson City$90,0003n/a
Boy Scouts of America Council 713 Sequoyah$73,00033%
Elizabethton Area Senior Citizens C Enter$62,5003n/a
Keystone Dental Care Inc$61,00024%
Boys and Girls Club of Elizabethton Carter County Inc$61,00032%
Contact 211 of Northeast Tennessee Inc$60,000322%
Appalachian Opportunity Fund$44,00025%
Carter County Drug Prevention$39,5003n/a
Washington County Board of Education$35,0002n/a
Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tn$30,50020%
Change Is Possible (Chips) Inc$25,00023%
A Step Ahead Foundation Tri-Cities$20,00024%
Appalachia Service Project Inc$20,00020%
Town of Jonesborough$17,0002n/a
Assistance and Resource Ministries Inc$15,00018%
Crumley House Brain Injury Rehabilitation Center$12,50011%
Johnson County Senior Center$11,00014%
Project Access$10,0001n/a
Johnson County Community Center$10,0001n/a
Hometown Service Coalition$6,00010%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($87k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

United Way of East Tennessee Highlands Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys & Girls Club of Johnson City Washington County: $527,500 over 6y, 19% of budgetThe Coalition for Kids Inc: $489,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Johnson City: $406,100 over 5y, 57% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $190,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFrontier Health: $142,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Promise of Greater Johnson City Inc: $119,250 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetFirst Tennessee Human Resource Agency: $111,400 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetArc of Washington Co Inc: $111,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetBoy Scouts of America Council 713 Sequoyah: $73,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetKeystone Dental Care Inc: $61,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Elizabethton Carter County Inc: $61,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetContact 211 of Northeast Tennessee Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetAppalachian Opportunity Fund: $44,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tn: $30,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChange Is Possible (Chips) Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetA Step Ahead Foundation Tri-Cities: $20,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetAppalachia Service Project Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAssistance and Resource Ministries Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetCrumley House Brain Injury Rehabilitation Center: $12,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJohnson County Senior Center: $11,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetHometown Service Coalition: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 21.

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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.

East Tennessee FoundationTN23.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover 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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About United Way of East Tennessee Highlands Inc

How much does United Way of East Tennessee Highlands Inc give?
United Way of East Tennessee Highlands Inc reported 12 itemized grants totaling $201,500, out of $246,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does United Way of East Tennessee Highlands Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (46%), Human Services (24%), Health (8%).
Who are United Way of East Tennessee Highlands Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Salvation Army ($586k), Boys & Girls Club of Johnson City Washington County ($528k), The Coalition for Kids Inc ($489k).
Does United Way of East Tennessee Highlands Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of East Tennessee Highlands Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Tennessee Foundation, Speedway Children's Charities, Mountain States Health Alliance.
Where is United Way of East Tennessee Highlands Inc based?
United Way of East Tennessee Highlands Inc 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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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