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Wellmont Health System

Honor those we serve by delivering the best possible care.Ballad Health is dedicated to improving the health of the 29-county Appalachian Highlands region.

$985k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$390k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of Wellmont Health System’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.

02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 16 grants below total $902,473 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $985,054 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $82,581 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 $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $199k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $295k
  • $250k+1 grant · $390k
$22,900
Median grant
3
States reached
$539M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Appalachian School of Law$390,000
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ$240,000
Southwest Va Higher Education Fndtn$54,648
Niswonger Foundation Inc$35,000
Emory & Henry College$33,179
Crumley House Brain Injury Rehabilitation Center$27,500
University of Virginia at Wise Foundation$24,996
King University$22,900
Barter Theatre$15,000
ALS Association$10,000
Crossroads Medical Mission$10,000
American Heart Association$10,000
Make-A-Wish Greater Virginia$10,000
Healing Hands Health Center$8,250
Tennessee Charitable Care Network$5,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%YWCA of NTN & SWVA: $7k → 15%YWCA of Bristol: $6k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
IN
CA
VA
MD
TN
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 30 repeat orgs$5.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
43

Total granted

$12M
$5.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+20%

Still filing today

73%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $466k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther

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

  • ET
    EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $6.4M · revenue +12% · 39% of their budget
  • MU
    MILLIGAN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +26%
  • SI
    STREAMWORKS INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $537k · revenue +549%

Funded once

  • ET
    EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $4.5M
  • SC
    Sullivan Co Sheriffs Dept
    one grant, 2020 · $85k
  • VH
    Virginia Health Care Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $67k · revenue +27%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.

Education
2
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
3
West Virginia Independent Colleges and Universities Inc

The mission of wvicu is to advance collectively the interests of west virginia's independent colleges and universities and their students.

Education
4
University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Inc

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
5
East Carolina Health

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
6
Tennessee State University Foundation

To promote and support literacy, scientific, educational,scholarship,research, and developmental goals at tennessee state university.

Education
7
Va Foundation for Independent Colleges

To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.

Education
8
Wellmont Health System

Honor those we serve by delivering the best possible care.Ballad Health is dedicated to improving the health of the 29-county Appalachian Highlands region.

Health
9
Northern Virginia Health Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health
11
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
12
University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Foundation Inc

The purpose of the university health systems of eastern carolina foundation (dba ecu health foundation), a non-profit corporation, is to give hope to eastern north carolina and beyond by inspiring philanthropy to improve health, education,…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement of Tri-Cities Tn/Va Inc and the most unlike its peers is Eastman Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%21%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr17%23%35–55yr14%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr18%3%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr17%6%35–55yr14%76%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/83
the rest of the field
12%
1,387/11,355

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 80 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/65
Grantees still filing
42/65
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $6,350,764 · EducationEAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONMILLIGAN UNIVERSITY — $1,022,950 · EducationMILLIGAN UNIVERSITYSTREAMWORKS INC — $536,867 · EducationSTREAMWORKS INCAPPALACHIAN SCHOOL OF LAW — $390,000 · Education+13 more — $499,294 · Education+13 moreEAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY — $4,546,167 · OtherEAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITYZoll Medical Corporation — $1,683,814 · OtherZoll Medical CorporationVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY — $720,000 · OtherVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY+35 more — $1,157,007 · Other+35 moreBIRTHPLACE OF COUNTRY MUSIC INC — $280,000 · Arts & CultureMusic For All Inc — $19,150 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $18,000 · Arts & CultureVirginia Health Care Foundation — $67,000 · HealthFriends in Need Health Center Inc — $60,000 · HealthHEALING HANDS HEALTH CENTER INC — $39,920 · HealthVIRGINIA BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION — $20,000 · HealthFRONTIER HEALTH — $20,000 · HealthCROSSROADS MEDICAL MISSION — $19,400 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $10,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER VIRGINIA — $10,000 · HealthVIRGINIA CENTER FOR HEALTH INNOVATION — $10,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $10,000 · Health+1 more — $5,500 · HealthKingsport Chamber Foundation Inc — $198,764 · Community ImprovementSummit Foundation — $25,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHEAST TENNESSEE REGIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INNOVATION AND — $10,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $5,000 · Community ImprovementSPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES — $50,000 · PhilanthropyEO COMPANIES — $25,000 · PhilanthropyFRONTIER HEALTH FOUNDATION — $24,800 · PhilanthropyEASTMAN FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF EAST TENNESSEE HIGHLANDS INC — $7,500 · PhilanthropySECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TN — $68,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$8,799,875Other$8,106,988Arts & Culture$317,150Health$271,820Community Improvement$238,764Philanthropy$117,300Food & Nutrition$68,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $6,350,764 over 2y, 39% of budgetMILLIGAN UNIVERSITY — $1,022,950 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSTREAMWORKS INC — $536,867 over 3y, 15% of budgetAPPALACHIAN SCHOOL OF LAW — $390,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetBIRTHPLACE OF COUNTRY MUSIC INC — $280,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetKingsport Chamber Foundation Inc — $198,764 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetSOUTHWEST VIRGINIA HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION — $154,648 over 2y, 16% of budgetBARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA — $98,550 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetKING UNIVERSITY — $72,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKingsport Area Chamber of Commerce — $70,335 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TN — $68,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVirginia Health Care Foundation — $67,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFriends in Need Health Center Inc — $60,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetGREATER KINGSPORT FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $50,429 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetEMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY — $50,061 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCRUMLEY HOUSE BRAIN INJURY REHABILITATION CENTER — $50,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE PARAMOUNT FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHEALING HANDS HEALTH CENTER INC — $39,920 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTUSCULUM UNIVERSITY — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNISWONGER FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVIRGINIA HIGHLANDS FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE BAYS MOUNTAIN PARK ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCARDINAL PRODUCTIONS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSummit Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetFRONTIER HEALTH FOUNDATION — $24,800 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC — $22,335 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVIRGINIA BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetDOBYNS BENNETT BAND BOOSTERS CLUB — $20,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetFRONTIER HEALTH — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SULLIVAN COUNTY — $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetJOSIE KING FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetCROSSROADS MEDICAL MISSION — $19,400 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMusic For All Inc — $19,150 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BRISTOL TN-VA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAPPALACHIAN COLLEGE OF PHARMACY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION NORTHEAST TN AND SOUTHWEST VA — $13,450 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $13,100 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF TRI-CITIES TN/VA INC — $12,800 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetAPPALACHIAN LITERACY INITIATIVE — $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetMATE INSPIRATION FOR INNOVATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetEASTMAN FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetNORTHEAST TENNESSEE REGIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INNOVATION AND — $10,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION NATIONAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTRI-CITIES MILITARY AFFAIRS COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budget
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.

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.

Mountain States Healt…Food City Charitable …Eastman Credit UnionEast Tennessee Founda…Ballad HealthThe McGlothlin Founda…The James W and Franc…The United Company Fo…Speedway Children's C…Williams-Berry Charit…Eastman FoundationThe Columbus Phipps F…
Mountain States Health AllianceTN51.5× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mountain States Health Alliance · Food City Charitable Foundation · Eastman Credit Union · East Tennessee Foundation · Ballad Health · The McGlothlin Foundation · The James W and Frances Gibson McGlothlin Foundation · The United Company Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · Williams-Berry Charitable Foundation · Eastman Foundation · The Columbus Phipps Foundation

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 Wellmont Health System 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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