Tennessee · Public charity
Variety of Eastern Tennessee
VARIETY OF EASTERN TENNESSEE's primary exempt purpose is to provide funding and services for programs that strive to improve the quality of life for underpriviledged, physically and mentally challenged, ill, abused, neglected and abandoned children in eastern tennessee.
- $380k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $212k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 40
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Variety of Eastern Tennessee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $212k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $288k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $220k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $55k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $222k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 40 | $415k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $433k | 16% |
| FY2017 | 29 | $397k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitality Pantries Inc | $215,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Covenant Health Foundation | $170,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Aid to Distressed Families of Appalachian Counties | $163,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Friends of Tennessee's Babies With Special Needs | $120,000 | 8 | 9% |
| Parent Teacher Counselor Association TSD | $100,000 | 4 | 23% |
| The Dream Connection | $98,500 | 3 | 26% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Tennessee Inc | $90,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Knoxville News-Sentinel Charities Inc The Empty Stocking Fund | $90,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Friends of the Knox County Public Library | $80,000 | 6 | 13% |
| Catholic Charities of East Tennessee Inc | $63,000 | 7 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Variety of Eastern Tennessee supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: East Tennessee Foundation · Thompson Charitable Foundation · Akima Club Inc · United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · The Clayton Homes Foundation · Gene & Florence Monday Foundation Inc · Lawson Family Foundation · Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc · Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee · The Chairman Club · The Melrose Foundation
How this is measured
About Variety of Eastern Tennessee
- How much does Variety of Eastern Tennessee give?
- Variety of Eastern Tennessee reported 27 itemized grants totaling $212,000, out of $379,581 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 40 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Variety of Eastern Tennessee fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Human Services (22%), Food & Nutrition (19%).
- Who are Variety of Eastern Tennessee's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hospitality Pantries Inc ($215k), Covenant Health Foundation ($170k), Aid to Distressed Families of Appalachian Counties ($163k).
- Does Variety of Eastern Tennessee fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Variety of Eastern Tennessee?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Tennessee Foundation, Thompson Charitable Foundation, Akima Club Inc.
- Where is Variety of Eastern Tennessee based?
- Variety of Eastern Tennessee is based in TN.
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