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Women's Fund of East Tennessee
The women's fund is a catalyst to transform the lives of low-income women and girls in east tennessee by fostering philanthropy and making grants focused on improving the lives of women and girls.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE | $35,000 |
| GIRLS INCORPORATED OF TN VALLEY | $35,000 |
| EAST TENNESSEE ARTSCAPES | $35,000 |
| KNOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB SMOKY MOUNTAINS | $35,000 |
| CENTRO HISPANO | $35,000 |
| HOLA LAKEWAY | $35,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS ELIZABETHTONCARTER CT | $35,000 |
| A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION OF EAST TN | $35,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS GREATER KINGSPORT INC | $35,000 |
| EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION | $32,610 |
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 (FY18–24, $187k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC3× · 2022–2024 · $90k · revenue +23%
- CHCENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE3× · 2018–2024 · $69k · revenue +834%
- HLHOLA LAKEWAY2× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- SHSAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +82%
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF JOHNSON CITYone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -97%
- TCTENNESSEE COALITION TO END DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCEone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +13%
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.
Tennessee Youth Court (TYC) is a teen-driven juvenile delinquency prevention/intervention diversion program based on restorative justice.
We empower Tennessee's promising young women to become and remain civically engaged leaders through experiential learning and relevant, inspiring growth opportunities.
Interview facility for child abuse victims.
Education
Girk talk is a faith based non profit that empowers girls to become their best selves by reducing the likelihood of teen pregnancy and helping them to advance educationally
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy.
To inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold by being a strong voice in the regional community for the rights of girls and by providing measurably effective programs that intentionally develop girls into responsible, self-reliant,…
The mission of the organization is to provide a powerful voice for abused and neglected children by advocating for each child, within the court's jurisdiction, in order to ensure safety, permancy and an opportunity to thrive.
Social Welfare
The ywca nashville & middle tennessee is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. it is the vision of ywca nashville & middle tennessee to focus on women and girls who…
Advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.
Girls inc. of memphis inspires all girls to be strong (healthy), smart (educated) and bold (independent). we fulfill our mission by providing over 1,000 girls ages 6-18 with girls inc. experience programming.girls inc. experience…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Incorporated of Tennessee Valley and the most unlike its peers is Downtown Newport Artscapes Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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.
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 EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds THE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds HOLA LAKEWAY ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Elizabethton Carter County Inc ↗
- Who funds KNOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF TENNESSEE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SMOKY MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN NEWPORT ARTSCAPES INC ↗
- Who funds A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS CENTER OF THE CUMBERLAND ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF JOHNSON CITY ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE COALITION TO END DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE ↗
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: East Tennessee Foundation · United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Women's Fund of East Tennessee 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.