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· Public charity

United Way of Hawkins County Inc

Raising funds for sixteen agencies which provide services to the people of Hawkins County.

$61k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Human Services$84kPublic Safety & Disaster$59kHealth$55kFood & Nutrition$24kYouth Development$21kPhilanthropy$16kReligion$6kCrime & Legal$5k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $48,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $61,030 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,030 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 · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$12,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$304k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hawkins County Rescue Squad$17,500
YMCA Brighter Horizons$12,500
American Red Cross$10,000
Of One Accord$8,000
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 (FY23–25, $54k) 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%American Red Cross: $10k → 15%American Red Cross: $8k → 15%American Red Cross: $7k → 15%YMCA Brighter Horizons: $13k → 15%YMCA: $10k → 15%YMCA Brighter Horizons: $7k → 15%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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$177k · 5 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$177k
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+18%

Still filing today

100%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • OO
    Of One Accord Inc
    4× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +70%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $29k · revenue +13%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • UE
    UPPER EAST TENNESSEE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
    one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue -11%
  • HC
    Hawkins County Rescue Squad
    one grant, 2017 · $17k
  • UW
    United Way of Hawkins County Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +2%
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
Girl Scouts Heart of the South

Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.

Youth Development
3
Girl Scout Council of Colonial Coast

Girl scout council of colonial coast, a united way agency, serves girls in grades k-12, in southeastern virginia and northeastern north carolina. our mission is to build girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a…

Youth Development
4
Tennessee Association of Rescue Squads Inc

To promote rescue activities, provide rescue training, coordination of rescue resources, personnel and coordinate disaster and emergency response.

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Hawkins County Humane Society Inc

Providing a safe and humane animal shelter for unwanted animals in Hawkins County.

Animals
6
Department of Tn American Legion Auxiliary Volunteer Girl State

We empower Tennessee's promising young women to become and remain civically engaged leaders through experiential learning and relevant, inspiring growth opportunities.

Education
7
Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc

Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place.

Youth Development
8
Wellmont Hawkins County Memorial Hospital Inc

Honor those we serve by delivering the best possible care.Ballad Health is dedicated to improving the health of the 29-county Appalachian Highlands region.

Health
9
Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273)

Our mission: A worldwide charitable fellowship united by a common loyalty to Jesus Christ for the purpose of helping people grow in spirit, mind and body. The YMCA of Middle Tennessee is the region's leading nonprofit dedicated to…

Human Services
10
Girl Scouts - North Carolina Coastal Pines Inc

Building girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.

Youth Development
11
Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council

Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place.

Youth Development
12
Boys and Girls Club of the Smoky Mountains

Boys and girls club of the smoky mountains promotes health, social, education, vocational and character development of young people in sevier county, tennessee. they provide afterschool, summer and teen programs to area youth.

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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

11 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. 11 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Helping Hands of Hawkins County Inc: $37,500 · OtherHelping Hands of Hawkins County In…Hawkins County Rescue Squad: $17,000 · OtherHawkins County Rescue SquadAmerican Red Cross: $9,200 · OtherAmerican Red CrossHAWKINS COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIREMANS ASSOCIATION INC: $8,000 · OtherHAWKINS COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIREMANS …BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC: $6,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER KINGS…CEASE INC: $5,000 · OtherCEASE INCHAWKINS COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD INC: $55,333 · HealthHAWKINS COUNTY RESCUE S…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC: $29,167 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN …American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red …Of One Accord Inc: $30,000 · Food & NutritionOf One Accor…UPPER EAST TENNESSEE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AGENCY: $17,500 · Community ImprovementUnited Way of Hawkins County Inc: $15,500 · PhilanthropyBoy Scouts of America Council 713 Sequoyah: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS INC: $7,500 · Youth Development
Other$82,700Health$55,333Human Services$54,167Food & Nutrition$30,000Community Improvement$17,500Philanthropy$15,500Youth Development$15,000

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 budgetHAWKINS COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD INC: $55,333 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetHelping Hands of Hawkins County Inc: $37,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetOf One Accord Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC: $29,167 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER EAST TENNESSEE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AGENCY: $17,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Hawkins County Inc: $15,500 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetBoy Scouts of America Council 713 Sequoyah: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCEASE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of Hawkins County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Hawkins County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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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    How do I get to United Way of Hawkins County Inc?

    Find your warmest path to United Way of Hawkins County Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 14 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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