How much did UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC grant in FY2024?

Philanthropy$5.2MHealth$3.5MHuman Services$1.5MYouth Development$780kCrime & Legal$378kCivil Rights$374kHousing & Shelter$300kCommunity Improvement$157kEducation$150kOther$7.6M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

ministry

2019

ministry

2020

ministry

2021

ministry

2022

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2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k24 grants · $592k
$50k–250k15 grants · $1.5M

$35,953

Median grant

States reached

$4.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

FRONTIER HEALTH$176,750
GIRLS INC$151,800
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF KINGSPORT$130,730
UNITED WAY OF EAST TN HIGHLANDS$130,571
KINGSPORT CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER$112,667
MEALS ON WHEELS OF KINGSPORT$110,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$105,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST VA$93,663
THE SALVATION ARMY$90,000
FRIENDS IN NEED HEALTH CENTER$80,200
UNITED WAY OF HAWKINS COUNTY$72,365
GRAY COMMUNITY CHEST$70,780
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF TRI$59,300
SULLIVAN SOUTH COMMUNITY CHEST$57,720
MOUNTAIN REGION SPEECH AND HEARING$57,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 16%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$20M · 46 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

46 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$20M

$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%

+88%

Still filing today

74%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther

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

FH
FRONTIER HEALTH
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +52%
GI
GIRLS INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +28% · 42% of their budget
BA
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRI-CITIES
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +44%

Funded once

GK
GREATER KINGSPORT FAMILY YMCAgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +107%
AS
APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +88%
SC
SULLIVAN CO FAMILY JUSTICE CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +126%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

United Way of Wilson County & the Upper Cumberland

The United Way of Wilson County exists to enhance the quality of life through a combined effort of individuals and organizations pulling together to address health and human service needs in Wilson County and the Upper Cumberland.

Human Services

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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West Tennessee Family Solutions Inc

To provide the highest quality care and opportunities affording individuals with developmental disabilities to lead successful and fulfilling lives withing their communities

Health

Anderson County Community Action Commission

To provide financial and referral assistance to needy individuals in Anderson County TN Aid is funded by federal state and local grants

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Greater Chattanooga Christian Services Inc

Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling

Human Services

Freedom Place of ther Upper Cumberland Inc

To assist individuals with life-controlling problems.

Human Services

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

Court Appointed Special Advocates

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.

Crime & Legal

Roane County United Way Inc

To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of roane county. we are focused on community safety, children's services, and family

Philanthropy

Kingsport Area Chamber of Commerce

The Chambers primpary purpose is comunity service and promotion. It makes available varoius programs to benefit local businessess and provides programs of information and publicity to attract visitors to the region.

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Casa of East Tennessee Inc

Volunteer organization to advocate for abused and neglected children in Knox county.

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Blue Grass Community Action

Provide social services to a nine-county area of central kentucky.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Upper East Tennessee Human and the most unlike its peers is Mountain Region Speech and Hearing Center. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/53

the rest of the field

10%

121/1,232

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.

05the grantee network

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

39/48

Grantees still filing

34/48

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$8,217,684Philanthropy$5,150,951Health$3,485,331Human Services$1,526,416Youth Development$780,134Crime & Legal$377,536Civil Rights$373,964

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.

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.

Speedway Children's CharitiesNC31.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Speedway Children's Charities · East Tennessee Foundation · United Way of Bristol Tn-Va Inc · Eastman Foundation · Eastman Credit Union · Wellmont Health System · JS & JR King Foundation · The James and Laura Rogers Foundation · Ballad Health Foundation · Greene County United Way Inc · United Way of East Tennessee · Food City Charitable 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 organisation UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SULLIVAN SOUTH COMMUNITY CHEST.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 621131786 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SULLIVAN SOUTH COMMUNITY CHEST, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 99% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc?

Find your warmest path to United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc?

More from the funding graph

UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc?

More from the funding graph