· Private foundation
Benwood Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k39 grants · $133k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $655k
- $50k–250k36 grants · $4.1M
- $250k+6 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHATTANOOGA NEIGHBORHOOD ENTERPRISE | $1,000,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA DESIGN STUDIO | $650,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA HOUSING AUTHORITY | $500,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $280,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA DESIGN STUDIO | $275,000 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF CHATTANOOGA | $250,000 |
| COLAB | $225,000 |
| RIVER CITY COMPANY | $200,000 |
| PURPOSE POINT COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| YOUNG WOMENS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC | $200,000 |
| TIVOLI THEATRE FOUNDATION INC | $150,000 |
| ARTSBUILD | $150,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $150,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
107 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $783k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CCCHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +249%
- CNCHATTANOOGA NEIGHBORHOOD ENTERPRISE6× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +91%
- TRTHE RIVERCITY COMPANY8× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +134% · 26% of their budget
Funded once
- CFCRABTREE FARMS OF CHATTANOOGA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $306k · revenue +38%
- BCBUILDING & CONSTRUCTION WORKFORCE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -98%
- SCSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY CAPITAL CORPORATIONPATHWAY LENDINGone grant, 2023 · $150k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is to connect chattanooga's technology sector to drive regional economic growth.
Invest chattanooga uses flexible, low-cost capital and strategic public-private partnerships to produce financially sustainable, mixed-income housing with deep permanent affordability that the market alone cannot deliver.
To protect the architectural heritage of chattanooga through historic preservation, advocacy, and education
To advocate for people who are homless or near homeless, strategically planning for housing and services in the community, maximizing resources and collaboarating with community partners to implement housing and services within the…
Encourage economic development
The mission of chattacademy is to reimagine what public education can look like in chattanooga, tennessee. chattacademy's mission is to graduate bilingual, biliterate critical thinkers ready to make an impact on the world through top…
Habitat for humanity of greater chattanooga (hfh-gc) brings together businesses, churches, and other community organizations in partnership with low income families to spark authentic transformation in our city through the construction of…
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
The organizations mission is to promote and maintain a business climate favorable to businesses in tennessee.
To identify, prevent, and remedy water pollution statewide through a network of allies and resources.
The united way of south central tennessee's mission is to improve lives by advancing opportunities for education, health, and financial stability for all. its vision is to be the primary community solutions leader for human services.
To serve through the power of dance.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc and the most unlike its peers is Psi Lambda Educational Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
135 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 135 of the 196 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA NEIGHBORHOOD ENTERPRISE ↗
- Who funds THE RIVERCITY COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA DESIGN STUDIO ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Unified ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds COLAB ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAUSEWAY INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSBUILD ↗
- Who funds LA PAZ DE DIOS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TIVOLI THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PURPOSE POINT COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds GREENSPACES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ENTERPRISE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ERLANGER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Creative Discovery Museum ↗
- Who funds CRABTREE FARMS OF CHATTANOOGA INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA FC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGANS IN ACTION FOR LOVE EQUALITY AND BENEVOLENCE ↗
- Who funds CHARLES H COOLIDGE NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR HERITAGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF BLACKS IN ENERGY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC ↗
- Who funds PROOF PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Footprint Foundation Inc · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Hamico Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Tucker Foundation · United Way of Greater Chattanooga · Schillhahn-Huskey Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Benwood Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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