Tennessee · Nonprofit
FAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE
FAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE (Tennessee) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,073,308 to it, the largest being The Clayton Homes Foundation ($3,145,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $349k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $988k
What Family Promise of Knoxville does
Mission
To provide a community-based response that empowers and equips families experiencing homelessness and housing instability to achieve sustainable independence.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency shelter program - we provide emergency shelter for families with minor children who are experiencing homelessness. Our goal is to provide the shortest stay possible for families and quickly get them into permanent or long-term housing. By providing shelter that is safe, secure, trauma-informed, and with low barriers to access, we can serve families who are most vulnerable and need our help. This helps to mitigate the trauma of homelessness, including adverse health outcomes, criminalization of homelessness, and the toxic stress impact on children and their families.
$175,665 spentof which $14,337 as grants60% of program spendingPrevention & diversion program - Family Promise of Knoxville provides short-term direct assistance to families, including rent and utility assistance, helping them avoid eviction by remaining in their current housing, if feasible. Then, we offer long-term stabilization support to families. This includes tenancy training, credit repair/education, landlord mediation, health and wellness, and youth support. For prospective landlords, having a family work with Family Promise of Knoxville will be an advantage.
$58,555 spentof which $17,292 as grants20% of program spendingGoing home staying home stabilization program - Family Promise of Knoxville provides long-term support to help families with children remain stably housed. This program is available for families who have gone through one of our programs.
$29,277 spentof which $3,285 as grants10% of program spendingTransitional housing - after completing our emergency shelter program, families have the opportunity to apply for our transitional housing program. If accepted, they will live in our transitional housing property and continue to work with a case manager for up to six months. This collaborative effort will help them meet the necessary goals for transitioning into permanent, affordable housing.
$29,277 spentof which $13,175 as grants10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $292,774.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $874k to $957k (+10%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
99% of FAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (38% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Tami Phillips
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $70k → $1.5M.
8 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 64% · 2019 76% · 2020 49% · 2021 29% · 2022 28% · 2023 90% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
20% of FAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
93% of FAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $119k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
FAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,837 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,837 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE?
- FAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE (Tennessee) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,073,308 to it, the largest being The Clayton Homes Foundation ($3,145,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $4,073,308 in grants to FAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE?
- The Clayton Homes Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,145,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILY PROMISE OF KNOXVILLE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 29 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing