United Way of East Tennessee
Johnson City, TN · EIN 62-6001105. Reported 43 grants totalling $1,046,500 to 27 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, 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 United Way of East Tennessee, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T70).
- How spread out its giving is. 27 distinct organizations, with 12% 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.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,500. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $73,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girls Incorporated | Johnson City, TN | $129,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Coalition for Kids Inc | Johnson City, TN | $123,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Johnson City Boys Club Inc | Johnson City, TN | $123,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Salvation Army | Brookhaven, GA | $119,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Frontier Health | Gray, TN | $61,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Johnson City Schools | Johnson City, TN | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Elizabethton Area Senior Citizens C Enter | Elizabethton, TN | $47,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Elizabethton Boys & Girls Club | Elizabethton, TN | $41,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $37,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Washington County Schools | Johnson City, TN | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee Inc | Kingsport, TN | $30,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Family Promise of Greater Johnson City Inc | Johnson City, TN | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Carter County Drug Prevention | Elizabethton, TN | $29,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| A Step Ahead Foundation Tri-Cities | Johnson City, TN | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Appalachia Service Project Inc | Johnson City, TN | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Appalachian Opportunity Fund | Johnson City, TN | $19,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Association for Retarded Citizens of Washington County Inc | Johnson City, TN | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Assistance & Resource Ministries | Elizabethton, TN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Change Is Possible Inc | Erwin, TN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Johnson County Senior Center | Mountain City, TN | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jonesborough Senior Center | Jonesborough, TN | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Johnson City, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| First Tennessee Human Resource Agency | Johnson City, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Girl Scouts | Johnson City, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Johnson County Community Center | Mountain City, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Project Access | Johnson City, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hometown Service Coalition | Mountain City, TN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
16 of 27 (59%) received money in more than one year over the 2 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 kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 16 of 27 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 | 16 | $450,500 | $15,500 |
| 2023 | 27 | $596,000 | $15,500 |
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
85% 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.
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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 $15,500 -- 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 United Way of East Tennessee's own Form 990 Schedule I 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: 605 West Walnut Street, Johnson City, TN, 37604.
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