Grant Recipients
2025 Phase I
On June 5, 2025, Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee awarded twenty-six area organizations over $239,000 in grants for this year’s Trinity Health Foundation Phase I awards. These grants will be used to plan community health-related projects competing for Phase II implementation grants later this year. Eighty-seven proposals were received from regional nonprofits and ranked by the Trinity board on impact and merit. Proposals focused on community partnerships to address behavioral and mental health, wellness, and addiction; youth health initiatives (mental health, addiction, and ACEs); housing access; care for vulnerable populations; serving the servants; and open topics. These groups will use the Phase I funding to research and plan the details of project operations and sustainability, culminating in a proposal for consideration for Phase II implementation funds. This year, grants are being awarded to both large and small organizations. Ten Phase I large grants and twelve small grants will go to nonprofits across the community. This year’s recipients and their projects include:
Small Grant Recipients
- A Place to Stay – APTS Neighbor Day Center
- Compassion Counseling – Your Worth, Beyond the Feed
- DayBreak Dementia Respite – Growing a Place to Age
- Family Promise of Knoxville – Static Site Shelter
- Fostering Hope TN – Fostering Hope’s DCS Overnight Support
- Gennisi Charitable Birth Services – Strong Dads, Healthy Families
- Hand UP for Women – A Home on Miracle Ridge
- Jefferson County Habitat for Humanity – Affordable Housing Opportunities and Safe Homes for Seniors
- Olive Tree Early Learning Academy – Building Resilient Futures: Integrating High-Quality Early Education, Economic Mobility, Mentoring, and Trauma-Responsive Interventions
- Penultimate Development – Penultimate Woodworks Entrepreneurship Initiative
- Survivor Fitness Foundation – Well Where You Are: Expanding Survivor Fitness to Underserved Communities
- The Koinonia Foundation – Koinonia Strong: Empowering Individuals with Disabilities to Thrive
- Three Rivers Collaborative – Three Rivers Collaborative Church Leaders Proposal
- Widowed Parent Relief Project – Widowed Parents Expansion Project
Large Grant Recipients
- A Step Ahead Foundation – Exploring a Direct Care Delivery Model for Contraceptive Access in East Tennessee
- Choices Resource Center – Mobile Medical Unit to Introduce Prenatal Support Services to Areas of Vulnerability for a Lack of Prenatal Care
- East Tennessee Health Information Network – Increasing School Nurses’ Access to Real-Time Clinical Data to Improve Delivery of Student Healthcare
- Emerald Youth Foundation – Bringing Health Services to East Knoxville
- Girl Talk, Inc. – Girl Talk, Inc. Sexual Risk Avoidance Education
- Knoxville-Knox County Council on Aging – Delivering Smarter: A New Approach to Senior Nutrition
- McNabb Center – Food as Medicine
- Mental Health Association of East Tennessee – Rural Treatment Access Bank
- Metro Drug Coalition – FLOURISH: Recovery Workforce Education Academy: Strengthening Our Behavioral Health Workforce
- One Knoxville Collective – East Knoxville Soccer Club
- The Good Samaritan Center of Loudon County – Exploring New Service Options in Support of Stable Families
- The Restoration House – Building Families and Laying a Foundation for Families to Thrive
Grant Recipients
2025 Phase II
Small Grant Recipients
- DayBreak Dementia Respite
- Fostering Hope TN
- Penultimate Development
- Survivor Fitness Foundation
- Widowed Parent Relief Project
Large Grant Recipients
- Emerald Youth Foundation
- Girl Talk, Inc.
- Knoxville-Knox County Council on Aging
- Mental Health Association of East Tennessee
- Metro Drug Coalition
Small Grant Awards
To read more about the 2025 Phase I & II SMALL Grant Recipients, visit our awards gallery.
Large Grant Awards
To read more about the 2025 Phase I & II LARGE Grant Recipients, visit our awards gallery.