· Private foundation
Willayne E Towe Christian Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WIDOWED PARENT RELIEF PROJECT | $10,000 |
| SUSANNAH'S HOUSE | $10,000 |
| KNOXVILLE INNER CITY KIDS OUTREACH | $10,000 |
| RESTORATION HOUSE | $10,000 |
| STREET HOPE TN | $10,000 |
| ISAIAH 117 HOUSE | $7,500 |
| HAND UP FOR WOMEN | $7,500 |
| THRIVE MINISTRY | $7,500 |
| PUNCHWORX | $5,000 |
| MANE SUPPORT | $5,000 |
| THE CROSS | $5,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE | $5,000 |
| GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OAK RIDGE | $5,000 |
| YOUTH WITH A MISSION | $5,000 |
| CEDARBROOK OUTREACH INC | $5,000 |
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, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- KIKNOXVILLE INNER CITY KIDS OUTR9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +213%
- SHSTREET HOPE TN6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +28%
- SHSUSANNAH'S HOUSE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +176%
Funded once
- WLWEST LONSDALE BAPTIST CHILDCARE CENTERone grant, 2023 · $5k
- PCPREGNANCY CARE CENTERone grant, 2024 · $3k
- WVWEARS VALLEY RANCH INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +120%
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.
The Mend House is a sober living community for men, in Knoxville, Tn. which empowers them to gain control over their actions, decisions and choices. The Mend House allows men to enjoy clean, sober and stable housing for up to 2 years while…
Empowering women to wholeness and self-worth with providing a safe haven.
We equip and empower women transitioning out of incarceration by providing stable employment and housing, life skills, and mentors to walk alongside them. Through this, we inspire hope, disrupt cycles of incarceration, and restore families.
Assisting and housing females in recovery
Faith based residential program that will provide a safe environment for women to be transformed from teh inside out. a place that helps women bring order, accountability, and a strong spiritual foundation where there has been chaos, lack…
We exist to serve women who have been trafficked. through our confidential services, we offer a safe space for healing to begin while we compassionately reflect jesus to all we encounter.
The mission of the Travis House is to free men and women from the bonds of addiction. Residents develop a biblical foundation and learn recovery tools to live a healthy and productive life. We believe that having a relationship with Jesus…
Provide transitional housing for women and children to end chronic homelessness while connecting with services
A non-denominational local christian ministry focused on providing christ-centered physical, mental and spiritual comfort to women in need. our mission is to present christ's love through the gospel as we endeavor to enrich the lives of…
Transitional shelter for women, men and children for central oregon. to provide shelter and a safe place for hope.
Provide safe housing and training to women who were victims of addiction,sex trafficking, abuse, homelesness or previously incarcerated.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Isaiah 117 House and the most unlike its peers is Cross Food Ministry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 28 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
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 THE RESTORATION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE INNER CITY KIDS OUTR ↗
- Who funds STREET HOPE TN ↗
- Who funds SUSANNAH'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF TENNESSEE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds VITAL FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds WIDOWED PARENT RELIEF PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY CLINCH-POWELL VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds MANE SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds CROSS FOOD MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds PUNCHWORX INC ↗
- Who funds HAND UP FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE ↗
- Who funds WEARS VALLEY RANCH INC ↗
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: Gene & Florence Monday Foundation Inc · Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee · The Clayton Homes Foundation · East Tennessee Foundation · Graham Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Willayne E Towe Christian Foundation 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.
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