How much does United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc give?

United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc reported 38 grants totaling $1,841,585 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (23%), Youth Development (18%), Health (18%).

Who are United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Frontier Health ($1.9M), Girls Incorporated of Kingsport ($1.5M), Boys & Girls Club of Greater Kingsport Inc ($1.5M).

Does United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Speedway Children's Charities, United Way of Bristol Tn-Va Inc, The James and Laura Rogers Foundation.

Where is United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc based?

United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc is based in TN.

United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc

United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc

Mission: to improve lives.

$1.8M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$167k

Largest

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 2025.

Philanthropy$5.1MYouth Development$3.9MHealth$3.9MHuman Services$3.5MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.3MFood & Nutrition$1.0MCrime & Legal$996kRecreation & Sports$955kOther$0

02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $8k
$10k–50k23 grants · $525k
$50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M

$33,796

Median grant

States reached

$4.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FRONTIER HEALTH	$166,712
GIRLS INC	$137,272
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF KINGSPORT	$130,000
KINGSPORT CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER	$115,367
MEALS ON WHEELS OF KINGSPORT	$110,000
UNITED WAY OF EAST TN HIGHLANDS	$96,665
AMERICAN RED CROSS	$85,000
THE SALVATION ARMY	$84,600
FRIENDS IN NEED HEALTH CENTER	$80,200
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST VA	$75,047
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF TRI	$58,097
UNITED WAY OF HAWKINS COUNTY	$56,943
GRAY COMMUNITY CHEST	$54,892
MOUNTAIN REGION SPEECH AND HEARING	$51,900
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER	$48,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$22M · 47 repeat orgs$164k to everyone else

47 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$22M

$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%

+24%

Still filing today

77%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterCrime & 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

FH
FRONTIER HEALTH
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +68%
GI
GIRLS INCORPORATED OF KINGSPORT
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +28% · 42% of their budget
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +44%

Funded once

GK
GREATER KINGSPORT FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +27%
AS
APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +83%
SC
SULLIVAN CO ANTI-DRUG COALITION
one grant, 2021 · $10k

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.

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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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

The Samaritan Center Inc

To meet the basic physical, spiritual, and social need of people in our area using the ministry of Jesus as a model.

Religion

We Care Community Services Inc

The we care mission is to serve economically disadvantaged residents of rhea county, tn by enabling them to help themselves. (offering a hand up not a hand out)

Human Services

United Way of Franklin County

Our mission is to focus on the power of giving by promoting volunteerism and mobilizing financial resources to eliminate the countys compelling human service needs

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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

United Way of Northeast Kentucky

Solicit Funds for Charitable and Civic Work

Philanthropy

Greater Chattanooga Christian Services Inc

Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling

Human Services

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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Blue Grass Community Action Partnership Inc

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

Human Services

Signal Mountain Social Services

Address the needs of individuals living within the 37377 zip code during times of financial challenge and crisis, with a longer-term focus of uniquely supporting each client on their path to self-reliance.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Upper East Tennessee Human Development Agency; 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

49 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. 49 of the 55 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/49

Grantees still filing

35/49

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$8,997,127Philanthropy$5,567,231Health$3,848,043Human Services$1,628,416Youth Development$862,231Crime & Legal$425,536Civil Rights$418,964

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

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.

Speedway Children's CharitiesNC23.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Speedway Children's Charities · United Way of Bristol Tn-Va Inc · The James and Laura Rogers Foundation · Eastman Foundation · JS & JR King Foundation · Eastman Credit Union · Food City Charitable Foundation · Ballad Health Foundation · Wellmont Health System · East Tennessee Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

16report 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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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