United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc
Kingsport, TN · EIN 62-0481461. Reported 160 grants totalling $8,937,145 to 48 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 United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc, 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. 48 distinct organizations, with 9% 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 much its list changes. 95% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $36,124. Half of what it reported fell between $17,800 and $87,834; the smallest was $5,502 and the largest $214,023. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Health | Gray, TN | $791,039 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Girls Incorporated of Kingsport | Kingsport, TN | $670,965 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater Kingsport Inc | Kingsport, TN | $587,420 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| United Way of East Tennessee Highlands | Johnson City, TN | $536,233 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $456,583 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Meals on Wheels of Kingsport Incorporated | Kingsport, TN | $450,847 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Kingsport Child Development Center | Kingsport, TN | $438,999 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Eo Companies | Abingdon, VA | $397,191 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Salvation Army | Kingsport, TN | $391,554 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Friends in Need Inc Health Center | Kingsport, TN | $374,622 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Gray Community Chest | Gray, TN | $331,878 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| United Way of Hawkins County Inc | Rogersville, TN | $312,802 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Sullivan South Area Community Chest | Kingsport, TN | $301,357 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Brothers-Big Sisters of East Tennessee | Knoxville, TN | $253,900 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mountain Region Speech and Hearing Center | Kingsport, TN | $243,070 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| CASA for Kids Inc | Kingsport, TN | $190,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Childrens Advocacy Center of Sullivan County Inc | Blountville, TN | $184,706 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Small Miracles Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc | Kingsport, TN | $173,980 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hope House | Kingsport, TN | $167,371 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Greater Indian Springs Community Chest | Blountville, TN | $153,941 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Literacy Council of Kingsport Inc | Kingsport, TN | $142,020 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Blountville Community Chest | Blountville, TN | $121,961 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fall Branch Community Chest | Fall Branch, TN | $117,564 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| United Way of Unicoi County | Erwin, TN | $92,519 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| United Way of Bristol Tnva | Bristol, TN | $90,946 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Upper East Tennessee Human Development Agency | Kingsport, TN | $84,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Sullivan County Imagination Library | Kingsport, TN | $81,800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Sulphur Springs Community Chest | Gray, TN | $74,712 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Family Promise of Greater Kingsport | Kingsport, TN | $69,887 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| First Tennessee Human Resource Agency | Johnson City, TN | $69,717 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Legal Aid of East Tennessee Inc | Knoxville, TN | $68,262 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Greene County United Way Inc | Greeneville, TN | $56,474 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Greater West Carters Valley Community Chest | Church Hill, TN | $55,932 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Johnson City, TN | $53,800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Girl Scout Council of the Southern Appalachians Inc | Knoxville, TN | $51,800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Piney Flats Community Chest | Piney Flats, TN | $48,627 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Appalachian Miles for Smiles | Kingsport, TN | $48,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Community Chest of the Town of Mount Carmel Inc | Mt Carmel, TN | $41,514 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Contact Concern of Kingsport | Kingsport, TN | $35,811 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hope Haven Ministries Inc | Kingsport, TN | $24,297 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Appalachia Service Project Inc | Johnson City, TN | $19,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Oasis of Kingsport | Kingsport, TN | $18,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Baileyton Community Chest | Greeneville, TN | $12,247 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Kingsport Lifesaving Crew Inc | Kingsport, TN | $11,810 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sullivan Co Anti-Drug Coalition | Bristol, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sullivan County Family Justice Center | Blountville, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bloomingdale Volunteer Fire Dept Inc | Kingsport, TN | $9,030 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| First Book | Washington, DC | $7,707 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
39 of 48 (81%) 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 kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 31 of 48 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 | 44 | $2,253,956 | $31,336 |
| 2022 | 38 | $2,348,385 | $44,319 |
| 2023 | 39 | $2,244,055 | $40,000 |
| 2024 | 39 | $2,090,749 | $35,953 |
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
90% 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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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 $36,124 -- 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 Greater Kingsport Inc'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.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 44 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 301 Louis Street Rm/Ste 201, Kingsport, TN, 37660.
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