Tennessee · Private foundation
Willayne E Towe Christian Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $108k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Willayne E Towe Christian Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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 | 15 | $108k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $53k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $39k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $57k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $58k | 54% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $28k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $50k | 40% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Restoration House | $42,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Knoxville Inner City Kids Outr | $41,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Street Hope Tn | $31,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Susannah's House Inc | $28,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Girls Incorporated of Tennessee Valley | $26,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Vital Families Inc | $25,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Cedarbrook Outreach Inc | $23,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Widowed Parent Relief Project | $18,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Miracle Lake Inc | $14,500 | 4 | 1% |
| United Way Clinch-Powell Valley Inc | $14,000 | 2 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Restoration House | $42,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Knoxville Inner City Kids Outr | $41,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Street Hope Tn | $31,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Susannah's House Inc | $28,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Girls Incorporated of Tennessee Valley | $26,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Vital Families Inc | $25,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Cedarbrook Outreach Inc | $23,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Widowed Parent Relief Project | $18,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Miracle Lake Inc | $14,500 | 4 | 1% |
| United Way Clinch-Powell Valley Inc | $14,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Mane Support Inc | $13,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Punchworx Inc | $8,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Cross Food Ministry | $8,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Hand Up for Women | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Isaiah 117 House | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Thrive Ministry | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Family Promise of Knoxville | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wears Valley Ranch Inc | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Medic Samaritan | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($136k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Willayne E Towe Christian Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About Willayne E Towe Christian Foundation
- How much does Willayne E Towe Christian Foundation give?
- Willayne E Towe Christian Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $107,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Willayne E Towe Christian Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (24%), Youth Development (18%), Religion (17%).
- Who are Willayne E Towe Christian Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Restoration House ($42k), Knoxville Inner City Kids Outr ($42k), Street Hope Tn ($31k).
- Does Willayne E Towe Christian Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Willayne E Towe Christian Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Willayne E Towe Christian Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gene & Florence Monday Foundation Inc, Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee, The Clayton Homes Foundation.
- Where is Willayne E Towe Christian Foundation based?
- Willayne E Towe Christian Foundation is based in TN.
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