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· Public charity

University Health System Inc

Our mission: to serve through healing, education, and discovery.

$984k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$112k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Health$2.3MEducation$528kYouth Development$510kPhilanthropy$397kCommunity Improvement$224kHuman Services$121kArts & Culture$77kAnimals$47kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 34 grants below total $552,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $983,592 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $431,592 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $197k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $262k
$7,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE (COLLEGE OF NURSING)$112,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$100,000
INTERFAITH HEALTH CLINIC$50,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$25,000
FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF AMERICA$25,000
CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY-EAST TENNESSEE$25,000
EAST TN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (ETEDA)$18,000
METRO DRUG COALITION$17,500
ZOO KNOXVILLE$16,000
KNOX COUNTY SCHOOLS$10,000
EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION$10,000
UPSILON CHI CHAPTER$10,000
GIRL TALK INC$10,000
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION$10,000
KNOXVILLE ACADEMY OF MEDICINE$10,000
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 (FY17–24, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $8k → 12%CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $8k → 12%YWCA KNOXVILLE: $17k → 12%YWCA KNOXVILLE: $6k → 12%KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL: $5k → 12%KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL CHARITIES INC: $5k → 12%KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL CHARITIES INC: $5k → 12%KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE: $5k → 12%KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE: $5k → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 40 repeat orgs$169k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
13

Total granted

$4.0M
$129k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+44%

Still filing today

85%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
HealthYouth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $363k · revenue +33%
  • IH
    INTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER
    5× · 2017–2024 · $354k · revenue +256%
  • HR
    HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $265k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • TS
    The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +47%
  • KA
    KNOXVILLE ACADEMY OF MEDICINE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +52%
  • EK
    East Knox Free Medical Clinic Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $17k
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
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
2
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
3
The Knox County Chamber of Commerce

The Knox County Chamber of Commerce is a private business organization and serves as a vehicle through which the business and professional community are organized to work together to define and solve community and economic development…

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4
Tennessee Nurses Association

The tennessee nurses association is a statewide association of registered nurses which exists primarily to advance the practice of nursing and to assure a healthier tennessee.

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5
Tennessee Electric Cooperative Assoc

To provide information, services, and support to the interests of rural electric cooperatives in tennessee.

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6
Tennessee Health Care Association

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.

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7
Knoxville Entrepreneur Center

Knoxville entrepreneur center was formed for educational and charitable purpose to provide resources and assist entrepreneurs and small business owners in knoxville, tennessee and the surrounding community to transform their business…

Education
8
Knox Housing Partnership Inc

To provide affordable housing to low and moderate income persons in east tennessee through first-time homebuyer education; assist with mortgage loans, downpayments, and closing costs; build new single family housing; develop multi-family…

Housing & Shelter
9
Nashville Academy of Medicine and Davidson County Medical Society

The nashville academy of medicine is dedicated to supporting physicians in greater nashville who provide quality medical care and are pledged to uphold high standards of conduct. we promote physician health, practice health, and community…

Community Improvement
10
Nourish Knoxville Inc

To cultivate healthy communities by supporting relationships between local farmers, producers, and the public.

Food & Nutrition
11
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is one of the nation's longest serving and most prestigious academic medical centers. Through its historic bond with Vanderbilt University, VUMC cultivates distinguished research and educational…

Health
12
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Tennessee Foundation; the most unlike its peers is East Knox Free Medical Clinic 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

51 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. 51 of the 60 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
30/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE: $687,833 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEEUNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC: $332,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINCCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY EAST TENNESSEE INC: $150,000 · OtherCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY EAST TENNESSEE INCAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $84,500 · OtherSUSAN G KOMEN EAST TENNESSEE: $75,000 · Other+22 more: $334,380 · Other+22 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc: $362,575 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncINTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER: $353,750 · HealthINTERFAITH HEALTH CENTERHELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC: $265,000 · HealthHELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INCFree Medical Clinic of America: $222,000 · HealthFree Medical Clinic of America+13 more: $256,650 · Health+13 moreGREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN COUNCIL 557 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TRUST: $204,500 · Youth DevelopmentGREAT SMOKY M…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL: $160,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS …EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION: $105,000 · Youth DevelopmentEMERALD YOUTH…VARIETY OF EASTERN TENNESSEE: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentVARIETY OF EA…+2 more: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $260,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERS…EAST TENNESSEE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY INC: $126,000 · EducationEAST TENNES…LEADERSHIP KNOXVILLE INC: $26,000 · EducationLEADERSHIP …+1 more: $5,000 · EducationTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $22,350 · Human ServicesKnoxville News-Sentinel Charities Inc The Empty Stocking Fund: $15,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $15,000 · Human ServicesKNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $10,000 · Human ServicesINNOVATION VALLEY INC: $60,000 · Community ImprovementKNOXVILLE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS INC: $47,000 · Animals
Other$1,663,713Health$1,459,975Youth Development$519,500Education$417,500Human Services$62,350Community Improvement$60,000Animals$47,000

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 budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $362,575 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH HEALTH CENTER: $353,750 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC: $332,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetHELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC: $265,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $260,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFree Medical Clinic of America: $222,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetGREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN COUNCIL 557 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TRUST: $204,500 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL: $160,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY EAST TENNESSEE INC: $150,000 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY INC: $126,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetEMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetINNOVATION VALLEY INC: $60,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetKNOXVILLE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS INC: $47,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKNOXVILLE ACADEMY OF MEDICINE: $36,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetVARIETY OF EASTERN TENNESSEE: $35,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Knoxville TN Inc: $30,250 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetBreakthrough Corporation D/B/A Autism Breakthrough of Knoxville: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRandom Acts of Flowers: $29,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetLEADERSHIP KNOXVILLE INC: $26,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETRO DRUG COALITION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EAST TENNINC: $25,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $22,350 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC: $20,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKNOXVILLE AREA CHAMBER PARTNERSHIP: $18,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSURGERY ON SUNDAY - EAST TENNESSEE: $17,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKnoxville News-Sentinel Charities Inc The Empty Stocking Fund: $15,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS INSTITUTE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKnoxville Jazz Orchestra: $12,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL TALK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHANGE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSHANGRI-LA THERAPEUTIC ACADEMY OF RIDING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEast Tennessee Veteran's Association: $5,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetDr Martin Luther King Commemorative: $5,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetTENNESSEE QUALITY AWARD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKNOXVILLE FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION LOCAL 65: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTENNESSEE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGOVERNOR'S EARLY LITERACY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Haslam Family Foundat…Lawson Family Foundat…The Clayton Family Fo…East Tennessee Founda…Akima Club IncThe Boyd FoundationBill and Crissy Hasla…The Clayton Homes Fou…Battelle Memorial Ins…Trinity Health Founda…Food City Charitable …Stowers Machinery Fou…
Haslam Family Foundation IncTN49.1× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Haslam Family Foundation Inc · Lawson Family Foundation · The Clayton Family Foundation · East Tennessee Foundation · Akima Club Inc · The Boyd Foundation · Bill and Crissy Haslam Foundation · The Clayton Homes Foundation · Battelle Memorial Institute · Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee · Food City Charitable Foundation · Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc

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 University Health System Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from University Health System Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 60 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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