On June 5, 2025, Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee awarded twenty-six area organizations $239,500 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-nine proposals were received from regional nonprofits and were ranked on impact and merit by the Trinity board. Issues addressed include community partnerships to address behavioral and mental health wellness & addiction, youth health initiative – mental health/addiction/ACEs, access to housing, access to care for vulnerable populations, serving the servants, and open topics. These groups will use the Phase I funding to research and plan details for project operations and sustainability, culminating in a proposal for consideration of Phase II implementation funds.
This year, grants for large and small organizations are being awarded. Twelve phase I large grants and fourteen small grants will go to nonprofits across the community. This year’s recipients and their projects include:
View project descriptions and photos in the Awards Gallery.
Congratulations to the Small Grant winners:
- A Place to Stay – APTS Neighbor Day Center
- Compassion Counseling – Your Worth, Beyond the Feed
- DayBreak – 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, Inc. – 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
Congratulations to the Large Grant winners:
- A Step Ahead Foundation – Exploring a Direct Care Delivery Model for Contraceptive Access in East TN
- 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
