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 that will compete 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 both large organization and small organization grants 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:  

• 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/li>
• 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 Foundaton – 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

• A Step Ahead Foundation – Exploring a Direct Care Delivery Model for Contraceptive Access in East TN
• Choices Resource Center – Mobile Medical Unit to Introduce Prenata 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: Strenghthening 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

• The Phase II Small Grant recipients will be announced in October 2025.

• The Phase II Large Grant recipients will be announced in October 2025.