· Public charity
West Tn Healthcare Foundation Inc
Comprised mainly of restricted endowments, the foundation manages endowments that provide for many of the needs of rural west tennessee communities as well as endowment management services for other nonprofits.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 62 grants below total $3,066,979 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,433,162 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $366,183 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 $10k22 grants · $141k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $493k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OLD FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH | $600,000 |
| JMCGH | $531,482 |
| JACKSON MADISON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $270,000 |
| CITY OF GREENFIELD | $140,000 |
| THE JACKSON SYMPHONY | $124,964 |
| CROSSROADS ASSEMBLY OF GOD | $109,800 |
| NEW HOME BAPTIST CHURCH | $100,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MEMPHIS | $95,500 |
| CARL PERKINS CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE | $85,570 |
| OAKLAND CEMETERY | $76,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER | $70,213 |
| FREED HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY | $63,300 |
| STJUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $60,500 |
| MAKE-A-WISH MID-SOUTH | $54,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $51,086 |
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, $391k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of West Tn Healthcare Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in TN; read by stated purpose it is 84% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
96 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 16 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $539k 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
- CCChrist Community Health Services Inc3× · 2020–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +69%
- JSJackson Symphony Association8× · 2018–2025 · $942k · revenue +88% · 29% of their budget
- ECExchange Club - Carl Perkins Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $906k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- FHFAITH HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2018 · $842k · revenue -91%
- JJMCGHone grant, 2018 · $616k
- THTENNESSEE HEART AND VASCULAR CENTERone grant, 2018 · $160k
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.
Roane County 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.
Methodist 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.
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.
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.
Christian fellowship for college students
The tennessee justice center (tjc) advocates on behalf of low-income tennesseans in areas of public policy having the greatest impact on their health and welfare.
Claiborne 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.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
The united way of south central tennessee's mission is to improve lives by advancing opportunities for education, health, and financial stability for all. its vision is to be the primary community solutions leader for human services.
Improving the economic development opportunities of jackson county, mississippi by unifying planning, economic & industrial development, and marketing activities in the county.
Providing services to clients to assist in preventing homelessness, training partner organizations on reporting system and reporting to governments, statistical information.
The mission of the governor's foundation for health and wellness is to encourage and enable more tennesseans to lead healthier lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tennessee Public Safety Network. 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 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
91 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. 91 of the 208 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 WEST TN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Christ Community Health Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Jackson Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds Exchange Club - Carl Perkins Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAITH HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF TENNESSEE ANTIQUITIES ↗
- Who funds Friends of Heart ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds TAMB OF JACKSON TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds FREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds Hands Up Preschool Inc ↗
- Who funds Youth Town of Tennessee Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Jackson ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds UNION UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis Inc ↗
- Who funds SCARLET ROPE PROJECT ↗
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: United Way of West Tennesseinc Starks · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Charles P Wilson Foundation Inc · H&M Foundation · The Murray Foundation Inc · James E Campbell Family Foundation 26-3889180 · Ayers Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Charles & Debby Campbell Family Foundation · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Covenant Legacy 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 West Tn Healthcare Foundation 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.