· Public charity
United Way of Sevier County
To unite people and resources in building a stronger, healthier, safer community that will have a lasting impact on improving people's lives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $198k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $212k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC | $82,000 |
| SEVIER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING | $75,000 |
| MOUNTAIN HOPE GOOD SHEPHERD CLINIC INC | $55,000 |
| SEVIER COUNTY WOMEN'S RECOVERY HOME | $44,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SMOKY MOUNTAINS | $40,000 |
| SMOKY MOUNTAIN AREA RESCUE | $25,000 |
| HEARTLAND SERVICES | $25,000 |
| SAFESPACE INC | $20,000 |
| HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC | $20,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| SEYMOUR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $8,000 |
| LAKEWAY CASA | $7,000 |
| SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE SERVICE - SEVIER CO | $6,000 |
| LEGAL AID OF EAST TENNESSEE | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $356k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SHSAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $609k · revenue +71%
- SCSEVIER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING9× · 2017–2025 · $390k · revenue +83%
- MHMOUNTAIN HOPE GOOD SHEPHERD CLINIC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $303k · revenue +273%
Funded once
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2021 · $5k
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST TENNESSEE INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +7%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To improve the lives of abused and neglected children through trained volunteers who advocate for safe, permanent, loving homes.
Provide advocacy for abused and neglected children in juvenile court.
To provide services for senior citizens in knox county
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.
HCBH provides mental health and substance abuse counseling.
To support, develop, expand, and unite local casa programs in recruiting and training volunteers to advocate for tennessees children who have been abused and neglected.
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.
Residential and support services to children and adults with severe and multiple disabilities allowing them the opportunity to lead safe, stable, and personally fulfilling lifestyles in tennessee communities.
Plan and develop resource conservation and development programs
To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.
Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sevier County Council On Aging and the most unlike its peers is Volunteer Fire Department of Seymou. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SEVIER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN HOPE GOOD SHEPHERD CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SMOKY MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SAFESPACE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SEVIER COUNTY YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT OF SEYMOU ↗
- Who funds DOUGLAS CHEROKEE ECONOMIC AUTHORITY INC ↗
- Who funds SMOKY MOUNTAIN AREA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LAKEWAY CASA INC ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN COUNCIL 557 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TRUST ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TENNESSEE KIDNEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc · East Tennessee Foundation · United Way of Blount County · United Way Clinch-Powell Valley Inc · United Way of Loudon County Inc · Variety of Eastern Tennessee · Akima Club Inc · Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organization United Way of Sevier County 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.
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 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.