· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HEARTLAND SERVICES | $25,000 |
| SMOKY MOUNTAIN AREA RESCUE | $25,000 |
| HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC | $20,000 |
| SAFESPACE INC | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $12,000 |
| SEYMOUR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $8,000 |
| LAKEWAY CASA | $7,000 |
| SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE SERVICE - SEVIER CO | $6,000 |
| TENNESSEE COALITION ON HOMELESS | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.
The organizations purpose is to encourage litter prevention, recycling and solid waste reduction in sevier county, tennessee
Plan and develop resource conservation and development programs
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.
Advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.
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.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 24 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Way of Sevier County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Sevier County. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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