· Public charity
United Way of East Tennessee Highlands Inc
Our mission is to break the cycle of poverty in our community.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of UNITED WAY OF EAST TENNESSEE HIGHLANDS INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $201,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $246,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $45,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $196k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY SHOE FUND | $35,000 |
| APPALACHIA OPPORTUNITY FUND | $24,500 |
| COALITION FOR KIDS | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ELIZABETHTON | $20,000 |
| BOY'S & GIRL'S CLUB JOHNSON CITY | $20,000 |
| FRONTIER HEALTH | $16,000 |
| ELIZABETHTON SENIOR CENTER | $15,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER JC | $15,000 |
| CARTER COUNTY DRUG PREVENTION | $10,000 |
| RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| CHANGE IS POSSIBLE | $10,000 |
| JONESBOROUGH SENIOR CENTER | $6,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $447k) 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. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JOHNSON CITY WASHINGTON COUNTY6× · 2018–2025 · $528k · revenue +62%
- TCThe Coalition for Kids Inc6× · 2018–2025 · $489k · revenue +236%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches6× · 2018–2025 · $190k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- AAASSISTANCE AND RESOURCE MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
- CHCRUMLEY HOUSE BRAIN INJURY REHABILITATION CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue +42%
- JCJohnson County Senior Centerone grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue +22%
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.
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,…
Advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.
Provide transition homes to individuals and families with the goal of providing the necessary skills to transition into permanent housing through a program centered on God, support and love.
To provide quality, affordable counseling to families and individuals.
Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling
Johnson city recovery centers mission is to improve the quality of life for individuals, families, and communities who have been affected by substance use and addiction in washington county and surrounding areas of northeast tennessee.
Social Welfare
The organization provides assistance to individuals and families in crisis situations.
Tennessee Youth Court (TYC) is a teen-driven juvenile delinquency prevention/intervention diversion program based on restorative justice.
To be clearly recognized as the most effective way to serve the most people through organizing voluntary efforts aimed at strengthening the Greene County community.
Interview facility for child abuse victims.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Tennessee Human Resource Agency and the most unlike its peers is Change Is Possible (Chips) Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 33 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JOHNSON CITY WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds The Coalition for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF JOHNSON CITY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FRONTIER HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Greater Johnson City Inc ↗
- Who funds FIRST TENNESSEE HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds ARC OF WASHINGTON CO INC ↗
- Who funds Boy Scouts of America Council 713 Sequoyah ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE DENTAL CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Elizabethton Carter County Inc ↗
- Who funds CONTACT 211 OF NORTHEAST TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN OPPORTUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TN ↗
- Who funds CHANGE IS POSSIBLE (CHIPS) INC ↗
- Who funds A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION TRI-CITIES ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE AND RESOURCE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CRUMLEY HOUSE BRAIN INJURY REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Johnson County Senior Center ↗
- Who funds HOMETOWN SERVICE COALITION ↗
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: East Tennessee Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · Mountain States Health Alliance · Eastman Credit Union · Mooneyhan Family Foundation Inc · Ballad Health · Food City Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 East Tennessee Highlands Inc 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.