· Private foundation
Willayne E Towe Christian Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RESTORATION HOUSE | $10,000 |
| WIDOWED PARENT RELIEF PROJECT | $10,000 |
| KNOXVILLE INNER CITY KIDS OUTREACH | $10,000 |
| STREET HOPE TN | $10,000 |
| SUSANNAH'S HOUSE | $10,000 |
| ISAIAH 117 HOUSE | $7,500 |
| THRIVE MINISTRY | $7,500 |
| HAND UP FOR WOMEN | $7,500 |
| PUNCHWORX | $5,000 |
| GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OAK RIDGE | $5,000 |
| CEDARBROOK OUTREACH INC | $5,000 |
| YOUTH WITH A MISSION | $5,000 |
| MANE SUPPORT | $5,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE | $5,000 |
| THE CROSS | $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 (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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +39%
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.
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.
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 PUNCHWORX INC ↗
- Who funds CROSS FOOD MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds HAND UP FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE ↗
- Who funds WEARS VALLEY RANCH INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Willayne E Towe Christian Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Willayne E Towe Christian Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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