GrantmakersTennessee

Tennessee Hospital Association

Brentwood, TN · EIN 62-0534232. Reported 92 grants totalling $4,198,632 to 38 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

38organizations funded
$15,000median reported grant
$4,198,632granted, 2021-2024
68%of grantees funded again the next year
15%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 38 distinct organizations, with 15% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 68% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $27,500; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $334,750. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
4 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
58 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
13 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
7 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
6 grants
$250,000 Or More
4 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Jackson Madison County General HospitalJackson, TN$629,000442024
University Health System IncKnoxville, TN$624,923742024
Saint Thomas Rutherford HospitalSaint Louis, MO$555,000332024
Mountain States Health AllianceJohnson City, TN$399,495642024
Shelby County Health Care CorporationMemphis, TN$372,144442024
Nashville General HospitalNashville, TN$300,000222024
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, TN$199,128442024
Wellmont Health SystemJohnson City, TN$147,500942024
Saint Thomas West HospitalSaint Louis, MO$90,000642024
Sumner Regional Medical CenterGallatin, TN$64,335112022
Claiborne Medical CenterKnoxville, TN$62,500442024
Maury Regional HospitalColumbia, TN$60,000442024
Parkwest Medical CenterKnoxville, TN$60,000442024
Baptist Memorial HospitalMemphis, TN$45,000332024
East Tennessee Childrens Hospital Association IncKnoxville, TN$44,219112022
Macon County General Hospital IncLafayette, TN$39,065222022
Tristar Ashland City Medical CenterNashville, TN$35,105222024
Riverview Regional Medical CenterCarthage, TN$34,000112021
Methodist Healthcare-MemphisMemphis, TN$30,000222022
Nmc Services IncSpringfield, TN$30,000222022
Tennessee Health Care Campaign IncMurfreesboro, TN$30,000112021
Williamson Medical CenterFranklin, TN$30,000222022
Marshall Medical CenterLewisburg, TN$28,760112021
Bolivar General Hospital IncBolivar, TN$27,500112021
Camden General HospitalJackson, TN$27,500112021
Trousdale Medical CenterHartsville, TN$26,355112021
Lauderdale Community HospitalRipley, TN$25,000112021
Tennessee Hospital Education & Research Foundation IncBrentwood, TN$25,000112024
Houston County Community HospitalErin, TN$24,603112021
Hawaii Community FoundationHonolulu, HI$20,000112023
Opportunity TennesseeMemphis, TN$20,000112024
Tennessee State Museum FoundationNashville, TN$20,000332024
Ballad HealthJohnson City, TN$15,000112024
Baptist Memorial Health Care CorporationCharlotte, NC$15,000112021
Memorial Health Care System IncPhoenix, AZ$15,000112021
North Carolina Healthcare Foundation IncRaleigh, NC$10,000112024
South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations HealthcarSioux Falls, SD$10,000112024
Bill Lee Inaugural IncNashville, TN$7,500112023

19 of 38 (50%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 3 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 26 of 38 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Health Care
22 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Public & Societal Benefit
1 org
Arts & Culture
1 org
Community Improvement
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202129$587,700$16,000
202222$1,498,994$15,000
202319$559,750$15,000
202422$1,552,188$15,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

83% of its giving went to organizations in Tennessee. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Tennessee
$3.5M
Missouri
$645K
North Carolina
$25K
Hawaii
$20K
Arizona
$15K
South Dakota
$10K

Down to the city

Knoxville, TN
$792K
Jackson, TN
$656K
Saint Louis, MO
$645K
Johnson City, TN
$562K
Nashville, TN
$562K
Memphis, TN
$467K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center6 shared recipientsAmerican Cancer Society Inc4 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund4 shared recipientsEast Tennessee Foundation3 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc3 shared recipientsThe Community Foundation of Middle3 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Tennessee.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Tennessee Hospital Association's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 5201 Virginia Way, Brentwood, TN, 37027.

EIN 62-0534232 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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