Jane L Pettway Foundation
Knoxville, TN · EIN 62-6371465. Reported 125 grants totalling $1,209,126 to 54 organizations across tax years 2021-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Jane L Pettway Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $9,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $6,750 and $10,800; the smallest was $2,500 and the largest $40,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Helen Ross Mcnabb Center Inc | Knoxville, TN | $87,430 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Friends of Knox County Library | Knoxville, TN | $42,685 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Goodwill Industries Knoxville | Knoxville, TN | $42,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Loudon County Government | Loudon, TN | $41,600 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| YWCA of Knoxville | Knoxville, TN | $40,650 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Hope Resource Center | Knoxville, TN | $38,700 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Safespace Inc | Sevierville, TN | $38,400 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Interfaith Health Clinic Inc | Knoxville, TN | $37,800 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Knoxville Family Justice Center | Knoxville, TN | $37,800 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Episcopal School of Knoxville | Knoxville, TN | $37,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Sertoma Center Inc | Knoxville, TN | $36,800 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Salvation Army a Georgia Corporation | Knoxville, TN | $34,800 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Volunteer Ministry Center | Knoxville, TN | $33,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| St Paul's Episcopal Church Kingsport | Kingsport, TN | $31,950 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Restoration House | Knoxville, TN | $31,800 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Fish Hospitality Pantries Inc | Knoxville, TN | $28,680 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Legal Aid of East Tennessee Inc | Knoxville, TN | $28,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Michael Dunn Center | Kingston, TN | $27,100 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Parrott-Wood Memorial Lib | Strawberry Plains, TN | $27,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| White Pine Public Library | White Pine, TN | $26,350 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| St James Episcopal Church | Knoxville, TN | $25,200 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Maynardville Public Library | Maynardville, TN | $24,452 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee | Maryville, TN | $24,400 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Knoxville Leadership Foundation | Knoxville, TN | $23,950 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Aid to Distressed Families Appalachian Counties (adfac) | Oak Ridge, TN | $23,300 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Centro Hispano De East Tennessee | Knoxville, TN | $22,400 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| East Tennessee Human Resource Agency | Knoxville, TN | $21,970 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Emory Valley Center | Oak Ridge, TN | $21,850 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Seeed Inc | Knoxville, TN | $21,700 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Street Hope Tn | Powell, TN | $21,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Public Library at Tellico Village | Loudon, TN | $18,955 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Compassion Coalition | Knoxville, TN | $16,450 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Luttrell Public Library | Luttrell, TN | $16,448 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Catholic Charities of East Tennessee | Knoxville, TN | $16,300 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Madisonville Public Library | Madisonville, TN | $15,950 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Florence Crittenton Agency Inc | Knoxville, TN | $14,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Friends of the Jefferson City Library | Jefferson City, TN | $13,723 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Childhelp Tennessee | Knoxville, TN | $13,300 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Focus Ministries | Knoxville, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Senior Citizens Home Asst Srvc | Knoxville, TN | $9,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Haven House Inc | Alcoa, TN | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| A Step Ahead Foundation of East Tennessee | Knoxville, TN | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Public Library of Tellico Village | Loudon, TN | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Washburn Public Library | Washburn, TN | $7,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Free Medical Clinic | Knoxville, TN | $7,200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dandridge Memorial Library | Dandridge, TN | $6,300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Johns Cathedral | Knoxville, TN | $5,400 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Five Libraries of Loudon County | Loudon, TN | $5,033 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bean Station Public Library | Bean Station, TN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Emerald Youth Foundation | Knoxville, TN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Family Promise of Knoxville | Knoxville, TN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Raising a Voice | Knoxville, TN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rutledge Public Library | Rutledge, TN | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Church of the Good Shepherd | Knoxville, TN | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
39 of 54 (72%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 82%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Interfaith Health Clinic Inc
AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOR - Sertoma Center Inc
HOPE AND WELLNESS IN 2021 - Goodwill Industries Knoxville
CERTIFIED NURSE ASSISTANT - Safespace Inc
EMER.&SUPPORT SERVICE FOR - Fish Hospitality Pantries Inc
WOMEN'S COMM SCHOOL, BOOST - White Pine Public Library
COMPLETING ADA COMPLIANCE
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 59 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 45 | $489,533 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 42 | $385,205 | $8,527 |
| 2023 | 38 | $334,388 | $9,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $9,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Tennessee.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Jane L Pettway Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 4823 Old Kingston Pike Suite 100, Knoxville, TN, 37919. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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