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United Way of East Tennessee Highlands Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

United Way of East Tennessee Highlands Inc

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

$247k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $201,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $246,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $45,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $196k
$16,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY SHOE FUND$35,000
APPALACHIA OPPORTUNITY FUND$24,500
COALITION FOR KIDS$20,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ELIZABETHTON$20,000
BOY'S & GIRL'S CLUB JOHNSON CITY$20,000
FRONTIER HEALTH$16,000
ELIZABETHTON SENIOR CENTER$15,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER JC$15,000
CARTER COUNTY DRUG PREVENTION$10,000
RED CROSS$10,000
CHANGE IS POSSIBLE$10,000
JONESBOROUGH SENIOR CENTER$6,000
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 (FY18–25, $447k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 15%ARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $48k → 14%RED CROSS: $83k → 15%RED CROSS: $40k → 15%ARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $36k → 14%ADULT DAY SERVICES: $42k → 14%RED CROSS: $20k → 15%RED CROSS: $19k → 15%RED CROSS: $18k → 15%RED CROSS: $10k → 15%ASSISTANCE & RESOURCE MINISTRIES: $15k → 18%PERSONAL SUPPORT SERVICES: $20k → 14%ADULT DAY SERVICES: $20k → 14%ARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $10k → 14%A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%FTHRA - ADULT DAY SERVICES: $10k → 14%PERSONAL SUPPORT SERVICES: $10k → 14%A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%ARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $9k → 14%ADULT DAY SERVICES: $9k → 14%ARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $8k → 14%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 26 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
7

Total granted

$3.5M
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+22%

Still filing today

58%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’22’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterHealthFood & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JOHNSON CITY WASHINGTON COUNTY
    6× · 2018–2025 · $528k · revenue +62%
  • TC
    The Coalition for Kids Inc
    6× · 2018–2025 · $489k · revenue +236%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    6× · 2018–2025 · $190k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • AA
    ASSISTANCE AND RESOURCE MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • CH
    CRUMLEY HOUSE BRAIN INJURY REHABILITATION CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue +42%
  • JC
    Johnson County Senior Center
    one grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue +22%
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
Anderson County Community Action Inc

The Anderson County Community Action Commission provides food, clothing, household foods, and essential assistance to low-income residents of Anderson County, Tennessee. The organization operates a community food pantry, clothing closet,…

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2
Community Resource Center of Robertson County
Human Services
3
Casa of Northeast Tennessee

Advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.

Crime & Legal
4
Stepping Stones of Robertson County

Provide transition homes to individuals and families with the goal of providing the necessary skills to transition into permanent housing through a program centered on God, support and love.

Housing & Shelter
5
Family Counseling Center of Middle Tennessee Inc

To provide quality, affordable counseling to families and individuals.

Recreation & Sports
6
Greater Chattanooga Christian Services Inc

Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling

Human Services
7
Johnson City Recovery Center

Johnson city recovery centers mission is to improve the quality of life for individuals, families, and communities who have been affected by substance use and addiction in washington county and surrounding areas of northeast tennessee.

Health
8
Johnson County Family Crisis Center

The organization provides assistance to individuals and families in crisis situations.

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9
Imagine Tennessee Better Inc

Social Welfare

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10
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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11
Talladega County Child Advocacy Center Inc

Interview facility for child abuse victims.

Human Services
12
Tennessee Kids Belong Inc

Tennessee Kids Belong dramatically improves the experiences and outcomes for children in foster care.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Tennessee Human Resource Agency; the most unlike its peers is Change Is Possible (Chips) 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

21 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. 21 of the 33 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $586,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYGIRLS INCORPORATED OF JOHNSON CITY: $406,100 · OtherGIRLS INCORPORATED OF JOHNSON CITYGIRL SCOUTS: $90,500 · OtherGIRL SCOUTSCity of Johnson City: $90,000 · OtherCity of Johnson CityELIZABETHTON AREA SENIOR CITIZENS C ENTER: $62,500 · OtherKEYSTONE DENTAL CARE INC: $61,000 · OtherBoys and Girls Club of Elizabethton Carter County Inc: $61,000 · OtherCONTACT 211 OF NORTHEAST TENNESSEE INC: $60,000 · Other+11 more: $247,063 · Other+11 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JOHNSON CITY WASHINGTON COUNTY: $527,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JOHNSON CITY …The Coalition for Kids Inc: $489,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Coalition for Kids IncBoy Scouts of America Council 713 Sequoyah: $73,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoy Scouts of America Council 713 …American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $190,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…FIRST TENNESSEE HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY: $111,400 · Human ServicesFIRST TENNESSE…ARC OF WASHINGTON CO INC: $111,000 · Human ServicesARC OF WASHING…A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION TRI-CITIES: $20,000 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE AND RESOURCE MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesFamily Promise of Greater Johnson City Inc: $119,250 · Housing & ShelterAPPALACHIAN OPPORTUNITY FUND: $44,000 · Housing & ShelterAPPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterFRONTIER HEALTH: $142,250 · HealthSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TN: $30,500 · Food & NutritionHOMETOWN SERVICE COALITION: $6,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,664,163Youth Development$1,089,500Human Services$447,400Housing & Shelter$183,250Health$142,250Food & Nutrition$30,500Community Improvement$6,000

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 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
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.

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 Founda…Speedway Children's C…Mountain States Healt…Eastman Credit UnionMooneyhan Family Foun…Ballad HealthFood City Charitable …Raymond James Charita…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
East Tennessee FoundationTN23.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Tennessee Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · Mountain States Health Alliance · Eastman Credit Union · Mooneyhan Family Foundation Inc · Ballad Health · Food City Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 East Tennessee Highlands Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of East Tennessee Highlands Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 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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