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United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc

Uwgk unites people and resources to strengthen communities and solve systemic issues

$741k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$18MYouth Development$11MHealth$11MEducation$6.0MHousing & Shelter$3.2MCommunity Improvement$2.9MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.9MFood & Nutrition$1.7MOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $675,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $740,965 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $65,965 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

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $300k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $375k
$41,750
Median grant
1
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUNG MEN'S CRISTIAN ASSOCIATION$125,000
DOUGLAS-CHEROKEE ECONOMIC AUTHORITY$50,000
COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE- OFFICE$50,000
LEGAL AID OF EAST TENNESSEE$50,000
BRIDGE REFUGE$50,000
CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE$50,000
EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION$41,750
YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION$41,750
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$40,000
TN VALLEY COALITION FOR HOMELESS$35,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST TENNESSE$35,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$30,000
KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE$30,000
COVENANT HEALTH FOUNDATION$16,500
SAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$15,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $12.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $462k → 12%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $456k → 12%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $450k → 12%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $439k → 12%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $411k → 12%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $388k → 12%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $287k → 12%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $262k → 12%CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $238k → 12%CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $194k → 12%CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $178k → 12%CHILDHELP TENNESSEE: $174k → 12%CHILDHELP TENNESSEE: $174k → 12%COMMUNITY COALITION AGAINST HUMAN T: $146k → 12%COMMUNITY COALITION AGAINST HUMAN T: $146k → 12%CHILDHELP TENNESSEE: $130k → 12%CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $116k → 12%CHILDHELP TENNESSEE: $105k → 12%THE CHILDRENS CENTER OF KNOXVILLE: $98k → 12%THE CHILDRENS CENTER OF KNOXVILLE: $96k → 12%CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $96k → 12%CHILDHELP TENNESSEE: $95k → 12%SOAR YOUTH MINISTRIES: $135k → 12%YOUNG MEN'S CRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $430k → 12%YOUNG MEN'S CRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $421k → 12%YOUNG MEN'S CRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $405k → 12%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $330k → 12%YOUNG MEN'S CRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $280k → 12%KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE: $245k → 12%YOUNG MEN'S CRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $242k → 12%YOUNG MEN'S CRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $221k → 12%KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE: $208k → 12%KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE: $194k → 12%KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE: $185k → 12%KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE: $185k → 12%KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE: $168k → 12%SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE SER: $164k → 12%SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE SER: $156k → 12%YOUNG MEN'S CRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $152k → 12%KNOX COUNTY ARC: $151k → 12%KNOX COUNTY ARC: $149k → 12%KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE: $143k → 12%SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE SER: $143k → 12%SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE SER: $134k → 12%YOUNG MEN'S CRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $125k → 12%SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE SER: $122k → 12%KNOX COUNTY ARC: $106k → 12%SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE SER: $100k → 12%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$64M · 115 repeat orgs$818k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

115 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 100 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

115
38

Total granted

$64M
$783k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+9%

Still filing today

83%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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 CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.3M · revenue +56%
  • HR
    HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +117%
  • TY
    THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +225% · 25% of their budget

Funded once

  • NF
    NETWORK FOR GOOD INC
    one grant, 2023 · $80k
  • MG
    MISCELLANEOUS GRANTS 5000
    one grant, 2024 · $70k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $65k
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
Welcome House Knoxville

Our Mission at Welcome House Knoxville is to share the love of Jesus through the ministries of hospitality and friendship. We provide safe and loving homes for individuals and families in transition to permanent housing.

Housing & Shelter
2
Hope House of Tennessee Inc

By creating a safe and structured two year residential program the Hope House of Tennessee will aim to equip and empower personal and educational growth economic self-sufficiency and a deeper understanding of Christs unconditional love.

Housing & Shelter
3
Tennessee Kids Belong Inc

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

Human Services
4
Empower Tennessee

To promote independence for persons with disabilities and provide guidance, education, and advocacy.

Human Services
5
Tennessee Children's Home Inc

Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…

Human Services
6
Volunteer East Tennessee

Volunteer East Tennessee inspires service by equipping organizations and mobilizing volunteers to connect with one another and strengthen communities.

—
7
Street Hope Tn

Street hope tn is a faith-based non-profit with a mission to eliminate sexual exploitation and trafficking of children and provide a safe environment to foster healing and hope through jesus christ. this mission is fulfilled through…

Recreation & Sports
8
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
9
Housing Hub

Building homes working families can afford. We are dedicated to: providing new, affordable homes to residents in the South Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee; preparing future and current homeowners to both acquire and maintain a safe and…

Housing & Shelter
10
Imagine Tennessee Better Inc

Social Welfare

—
11
Casa of the Tennessee Heartland Inc

Provide advocacy for abused and neglected children in juvenile court.

Civil Rights
12
East Tennessee Christian Home Inc

The Home was organized to provide for the health, welfare and benefit of children whose parents or guardians are unable to care for them. The Home offers residential care and onsite academic

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Restoration House of East Tennessee; the most unlike its peers is Real Talk Mentoring 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

132 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 132 of the 154 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
43
Early backer (in before they grew)
125/132
Grantees still filing
92/132
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $4,062,117 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKNOXVILLE-KNOX COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $2,509,924 · OtherKNOXVILLE-KNOX COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGINGCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST TENNESSEE INC: $2,122,150 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST TENNESSEE INCSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE: $1,630,723 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSE…AMERICAN RED CROSS-KNOXVILLE AREA: $1,537,691 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS-KNOXVILLE AREATHE SALVATION ARMY: $1,516,382 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYLEGAL AID OF EAST TENNESSEE: $1,380,184 · OtherLEGAL AID OF EAST TENNESSEETHE GREAT SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST: $964,204 · OtherTHE FLORENCE CRITTENTON AGENCY INC: $835,651 · Other+60 more: $7,181,467 · Other+60 moreTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $3,197,522 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHR…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC: $2,605,530 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN…KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $1,356,259 · Human ServicesKNOXVILLE AREA URBAN …CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $1,036,855 · Human ServicesCENTRO HISPANO DE EAS…SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE SERVICE INC: $881,511 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZENS HOME …CHILDHELP INC: $735,394 · Human ServicesCHILDHELP INCSUNSHINE SERVICES: $614,280 · Human ServicesThe Children's Center of Knoxville: $493,086 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY BUILDING INSTITUTE: $454,752 · Human Services+17 more: $930,727 · Human Services+17 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL: $5,335,067 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS …EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION: $1,962,729 · Youth DevelopmentEMERALD YOUTH FOUND…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST TENNESSEE INC: $1,476,057 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SI…GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN COUNCIL 557 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TRUST: $1,112,082 · Youth DevelopmentGREAT SMOKY MOUNTAI…GIRL TALK INC: $732,683 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL TALK INC+6 more: $564,002 · Youth DevelopmentHELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC: $4,000,139 · HealthHELEN ROSS MCNAB…INTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER: $1,368,588 · HealthINTERFAITH HEALT…MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC: $707,040 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH AS…EAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC: $693,827 · HealthEAST TENNESSEE C…HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION: $592,352 · HealthHELEN ROSS MCNAB…+19 more: $2,045,337 · Health+19 moreTNACHIEVES: $1,150,147 · EducationEMERALD CHARTER SCHOOLS: $882,767 · EducationFRIENDS OF LITERACY INC: $587,309 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $422,052 · EducationFREEDOM VILLAGE OF HOPE: $231,583 · EducationKNOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $185,200 · Education+8 more: $308,609 · EducationVOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER: $1,399,297 · Housing & ShelterWESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER CO: $840,075 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE: $443,621 · Housing & ShelterSOUTHEASTERN HOUSING FOUNDATION II INC: $196,033 · Housing & Shelter+3 more: $83,624 · Housing & ShelterKNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $971,496 · ReligionYoke Youth Ministries: $48,000 · Religion+1 more: $13,049 · Religion
Other$23,740,493Human Services$12,305,916Youth Development$11,182,620Health$9,407,283Education$3,767,667Housing & Shelter$2,962,650Religion$1,032,545

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL: $5,335,067 over 8y, 10% of budgetHELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC: $4,000,139 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $3,197,522 over 9y, 25% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC: $2,605,530 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST TENNESSEE INC: $2,122,150 over 9y, 13% of budgetEMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION: $1,962,729 over 9y, 14% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE: $1,630,723 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST TENNESSEE INC: $1,476,057 over 8y, 23% of budgetVOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER: $1,399,297 over 7y, 13% of budgetLEGAL AID OF EAST TENNESSEE: $1,380,184 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetINTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER: $1,368,588 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetKNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $1,356,259 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetTNACHIEVES: $1,150,147 over 4y, 21% of budgetGREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN COUNCIL 557 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TRUST: $1,112,082 over 6y, 10% of budgetCENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $1,036,855 over 9y, 22% of budgetKNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $971,496 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetTHE GREAT SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST: $964,204 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetEMERALD CHARTER SCHOOLS: $882,767 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE SERVICE INC: $881,511 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetWESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER CO: $840,075 over 9y, 26% of budgetTHE FLORENCE CRITTENTON AGENCY INC: $835,651 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetCHILDHELP INC: $735,394 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetGIRL TALK INC: $732,683 over 7y, 24% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC: $707,040 over 8y, 23% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC: $693,827 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Knox County Public Library: $668,841 over 8y, 81% of budgetSUNSHINE SERVICES: $614,280 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetHELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION: $592,352 over 3y, 11% of budgetFRIENDS OF LITERACY INC: $587,309 over 7y, 36% of budgetKNOX COUNTY RESCUE: $506,190 over 7y, 16% of budgetThe Children's Center of Knoxville: $493,086 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY BUILDING INSTITUTE: $454,752 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE: $443,621 over 7y, 23% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $422,052 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKNOXVILLE ACADEMY OF MEDICINE FOUNDATION: $405,393 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF TENNESSEE VALLEY: $343,345 over 7y, 17% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BLOUNT COUNTY: $341,297 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetCASA of East Tennessee Inc: $332,874 over 8y, 28% of budgetSEEED INC: $325,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE KIDNEY FOUNDATION INC: $303,023 over 8y, 23% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF EAST TENNESSEE: $282,781 over 7y, 32% of budgetMETRO DRUG COALITION INC: $279,276 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetThe Mend House Sober Living Community: $273,333 over 3y, 40% of budgetSHANGRI-LA THERAPEUTIC ACADEMY OF RIDING INC: $248,197 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetFREEDOM VILLAGE OF HOPE: $231,583 over 3y, 38% of budgetSOAR YOUTH MINISTRIES INC THRIVE LONSDALE: $209,526 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGY ACCESS CENTER INC: $201,220 over 3y, 14% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN HOUSING FOUNDATION II INC: $196,033 over 5y, 6.1% 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.

  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL ↗
  • Who funds HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST TENNESSEE INC ↗
  • Who funds EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST TENNESSEE INC ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL AID OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds TNACHIEVES ↗
  • Who funds GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN COUNCIL 557 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TRUST ↗
  • Who funds CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GREAT SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds EMERALD CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds WESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER CO ↗
  • Who funds THE FLORENCE CRITTENTON AGENCY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRL TALK INC ↗
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC ↗
  • Who funds EAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends of the Knox County Public Library ↗
  • Who funds SUNSHINE SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF LITERACY INC ↗
  • Who funds KNOX COUNTY RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Center of Knoxville ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY BUILDING INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗

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…Trinity Health Founda…Haslam Family Foundat…Akima Club IncLawson Family Foundat…The Clayton Homes Fou…Bill and Crissy Hasla…Thompson Charitable F…Stowers Machinery Fou…Gene & Florence Monda…Variety of Eastern Te…The Melrose Foundation
East Tennessee FoundationTN124.4× affinity65 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Tennessee Foundation · Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · Akima Club Inc · Lawson Family Foundation · The Clayton Homes Foundation · Bill and Crissy Haslam Foundation · Thompson Charitable Foundation · Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc · Gene & Florence Monday Foundation Inc · Variety of Eastern Tennessee · The Melrose Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Community Options Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
56report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 154 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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