Tennessee Rural Health Recruitment &
Brentwood, TN · EIN 20-3037016. Reported 70 grants totalling $16.7M to 47 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Tennessee Rural Health Recruitment &, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E99) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 47 distinct organizations, with 43% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 33% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $50,000 and $150,000; the smallest was $6,500 and the largest $2,430,324. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Tennessee - Health Science Center Graduate Medical Education | Memphis, TN | $7,134,818 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Nashville, TN | $4,309,436 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Etsu College of Nursing | Johnson City, TN | $1,665,162 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Meharry Medical College | Nashville, TN | $878,858 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Tennessee Department of Mental Health | Nashville, TN | $335,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Sweetwater Hospital Association | Sweetwater, TN | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hardin County Regional Health Center | Savannah, TN | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Rutherford County Primary Care | Murfreesboro, TN | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| State of Franklin Primary Care of Elizabethton | Johnson City, TN | $100,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Healing Hands Health Center Inc | Bristol, TN | $99,384 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Rural Medical Services Inc | Newport, TN | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Karis Community Health | Cleveland, TN | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ridgeview Psychiatric Hospital and and Center Inc | Oak Ridge, TN | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Community Health of East Tennessee | Lafollette, TN | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford | Murfreesboro, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Association for Computing Machinery | Memphis, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Baptist Memorial Hospital Union City Inc | Union City, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chattanooga State Community College | Chattanooga, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Clinic of Shelbyville and Bedford County Inc | Shelbyville, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Covenant Health | Knoxville, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cumberland University | Lebanon, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Free Medical Clinic of America | Knoxville, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends in Need Inc Health Center | Kingsport, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gainesboro Medical Clinic | Gainesboro, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Henry County Medical Center | Paris, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Interfaith Dental Clinic of Nashville | Nashville, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jackson Madison County General Hospital | Jackson, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lincoln Medical Center | Fayetteville, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lipscomb University | Nashville, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Macon County General Hospital Inc | Lafayette, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Medical Education Assistance Corporation | Mountain Home, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nashville State Community College | Nashville, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rainbow Pediatrics | Humboldt, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Siskin Hospital for Physical Rehabilitation | Chattanooga, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tennessee College of Applied Technology | Jackson, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tennessee State University Foundation | Nashville, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Walters State Community College | Morristown, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mercy Health Services Inc | Franklin, TN | $47,366 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United Neighborhood Health Services Inc | Nashville, TN | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hope Family Health Services | Westmoreland, TN | $32,024 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cedar Recovery | Mt Juliet, TN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Church Health Center of Memphis Inc | Memphis, TN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Trinity Health Ministries Inc | Maryville, TN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rural Health Association of Tennessee Inc | Huntingdon, TN | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Tennessee Charitable Care Network | Franklin, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lee University | Cleveland, TN | $7,100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tennessee Academy of Physician Associates Inc | Nashville, TN | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
13 of 47 (28%) 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.
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.
- Etsu College of Nursing
COMMUNITY INCENTIVE/SPONSORSHIP
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 25 of 47 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 18 | $5,265,000 | $50,000 |
| 2022 | 6 | $3,244,250 | $282,196 |
| 2023 | 15 | $3,591,414 | $50,000 |
| 2024 | 31 | $4,559,984 | $50,000 |
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
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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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $50,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Tennessee.
- 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 Rural Health Recruitment &'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.
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