· 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.
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.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $124k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FISH HOSPITALITY PANTRIES | $30,000 |
| DREAM CONNECTION | $28,500 |
| COVENANT HEALTH - KATERPILLAR KIDS CAMP | $20,000 |
| AID TO DISTRESSED FAMILIES OF APPALACHIAN COUNTIES | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF KNOX COUNTY LIBRARY - DOLLY'S IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF EAST TENNESSEE | $10,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE 9TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT | $8,500 |
| IVA'S PLACE | $7,000 |
| COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE LAKEWAY | $6,500 |
| SMALL MIRACLES THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER | $6,000 |
| NOURISH ONE CHILD PROGRAM - KEITH MEMORIAL CHURCH | $6,000 |
| GIRL TALK | $6,000 |
| HOOF & HARNESS EXPERIMENTAL LEARNING | $5,000 |
| KOINONIA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF TENNESSEE BABIES WITH SPECIAL NEEDS | $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, $472k) 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.
42 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HPHOSPITALITY PANTRIES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $215k · revenue +77%
- CHCovenant Health Foundation8× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue +6%
- ATAID TO DISTRESSED FAMILIES OF APPALACHIAN COUNTIES7× · 2017–2025 · $163k · revenue +188%
Funded once
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKone grant, 2019 · $10k
- ETEAST TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGY ACCESS CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -5%
- BTBIJOU THEATRE CENTERone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -2%
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 combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.
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 be the voice for children who have been victims of abuse and/or neglect. Our vision is to serve every child in the Cheaha Region by providing them with a caring and competent trained volunteer.
To provide court-appointed special advocates to child victims of abuse and neglect. The programs vision is a safe, permanent, loving home for every child it serves.
The organization advocates for abused or neglected children. they make recommendations to the court on permament living arrangements andcommunicating with the child ensuring that their interests are being met.
To reduce the trauma of child abuse by providing a child oriented environment for the coordinated and multi-disciplinary investigation, intervention, and treatment of child sexual and severe physical abuse.
Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…
Interview facility for child abuse victims.
To promote, assist, and support the development, growth, and sustainability of child advocacy centers in their service to at-risk, abused, and neglected children and their families.
Tennessee Kids Belong dramatically improves the experiences and outcomes for children in foster care.
To provide a safe place to report child abuse, reduce the emotional trauma for children and non-offending family members, and extend professional services to protect the intergrity of an investigation.
Effective prosecution of child abuses, providing therapy and education for the abused, and providing a safe haven for the abused.
How this is measured
52 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. 52 of the 58 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 HOSPITALITY PANTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Covenant Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds AID TO DISTRESSED FAMILIES OF APPALACHIAN COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TENNESSEE'S BABIES WITH SPECIAL NEEDS ↗
- Who funds Parent Teacher Counselor Association TSD ↗
- Who funds THE DREAM CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds Knoxville News-Sentinel Charities Inc The Empty Stocking Fund ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Knox County Public Library ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds Cerebral Palsy Center for Handicapped Adults Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE TENNESSEE HEARTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CASA CORRIDOR OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds CASA MONROE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TN ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE 9TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER CO ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SMALL MIRACLES THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF BRADLEY COUNTY TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOAR YOUTH MINISTRIES INC THRIVE LONSDALE ↗
- Who funds CASA of East Tennessee Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMS CREEK YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARMONY FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOOF & HARNESS EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL TALK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF HAMILTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Variety of Eastern Tennessee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Variety of Eastern Tennessee. Bigger dots raise more.
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