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Benwood Foundation Inc at a glance

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Benwood Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
117
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$11MEducation$8.6MArts & Culture$4.4MPhilanthropy$4.3MHousing & Shelter$3.9MEnvironment$2.6MPublic Benefit$2.0MCivil Rights$1.8MOther$0
02FY2024 · 117 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k39 grants · $133k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $655k
  • $50k–250k36 grants · $4.1M
  • $250k+6 grants · $3.0M
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$104M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $60k → 14%PURPOSE POINT COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $200k → 12%PURPOSE POINT COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $200k → 12%PURPOSE POINT COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $100k → 12%LA PAZ CHATTANOOGA: $125k → 12%LA PAZ CHATTANOOGA: $100k → 12%LA PAZ CHATTANOOGA: $100k → 12%LA PAZ CHATTANOOGA: $100k → 12%LA PAZ CHATTANOOGA: $100k → 12%LA PAZ CHATTANOOGA: $90k → 12%LA PAZ CHATTANOOGA: $20k → 12%LA PAZ CHATTANOOGA: $15k → 12%LA PAZ CHATTANOOGA: $6k → 12%LA PAZ CHATTANOOGA: $6k → 12%LA PAZ CHATTANOOGA: $4k → 12%LA PAZ CHATTANOOGA: $3k → 12%ORANGE GROVE CENTER: $2k → 12%ORANGE GROVE CENTER: $2k → 12%ORANGE GROVE CENTER: $1k → 12%ORANGE GROVE CENTER: $1k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA: $1k → 12%NET RESOURCE FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%BETHEL BIBLE VILLAGE: $1k → 12%HOPE FOR THE INNER CITY: $1k → 12%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $25k → 12%PEARL GROUP: $500 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OR
PA
CA
VA
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$37M · 107 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +36% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

107
70

Total granted

$37M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+36%

Still filing today

70%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $783k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CC
    CHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +249%
  • CN
    CHATTANOOGA NEIGHBORHOOD ENTERPRISE
    6× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +91%
  • TR
    THE RIVERCITY COMPANY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +134% · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • CF
    CRABTREE FARMS OF CHATTANOOGA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $306k · revenue +38%
  • BC
    BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION WORKFORCE CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -98%
  • SC
    SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY CAPITAL CORPORATION D/B/A PATHWAY LENDINGgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +90%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Chattanooga Technology Council Inc

Our mission is to connect chattanooga's technology sector to drive regional economic growth.

Community Improvement
2
Invest Chattanooga

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.

Housing & Shelter
3
Preserve Chattanooga Inc Formerly Cornerstones Inc

To protect the architectural heritage of chattanooga through historic preservation, advocacy, and education

Arts & Culture
4
Chattanooga Regional Homeless Coalition Inc

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…

Community Improvement
5
Carter Street Corporation

Encourage economic development

Community Improvement
6
Chattacademy Community Schools Inc

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…

Education
7
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Chattanooga Area Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
8
Nashville Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Tennessee Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The organizations mission is to promote and maintain a business climate favorable to businesses in tennessee.

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10
Tennessee Clean Water Network

To identify, prevent, and remedy water pollution statewide through a network of allies and resources.

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11
United Way of South Central Tennessee

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.

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12
The Chattanooga Ballet

To serve through the power of dance.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

135 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

15
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
57
Early backer (in before they grew)
127/135
Grantees still filing
94/135
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF CHATTANOOGA: $2,000,920 · OtherCITY OF CHATTANOOGAUnified: $1,671,500 · OtherUnifiedURBAN LEAGUE OF CHATTANOOGA: $1,341,380 · OtherURBAN LEAGUE OF CHATTANOOGAIndividual grant recipient: $990,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $600,000 · OtherTN STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION: $600,000 · OtherLA PAZ DE DIOS INC: $668,000 · Other+119 more: $8,771,600 · Other+119 moreThe Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc: $4,112,170 · PhilanthropyThe Community Founda…CHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $3,272,500 · PhilanthropyCHATTANOOGA CHAMBER …CRABTREE FARMS OF CHATTANOOGA INC: $306,000 · Philanthropy+8 more: $180,378 · PhilanthropyTHE RIVERCITY COMPANY: $2,662,594 · Community ImprovementTHE RIVERCITY CO…CHATTANOOGA DESIGN STUDIO: $2,235,000 · Community ImprovementCHATTANOOGA DESI…CAUSEWAY INC: $770,000 · Community ImprovementCAUSEWAY INCTHE ENTERPRISE CENTER INC: $377,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ENTERPRISE C…+6 more: $391,634 · Community Improvement+6 moreCHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $2,058,500 · EducationCHATTANOOG…THE YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $837,000 · EducationTHE YOUNG …CHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $554,500 · EducationCHATTANOOG…TENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION: $400,000 · EducationTENNESSEE …Teach for America Inc: $161,500 · Education+10 more: $199,950 · EducationCOLAB: $1,310,000 · Arts & CultureCOLABARTSBUILD: $713,000 · Arts & CultureARTSBUILDTHE TIVOLI THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TIVOL…Creative Discovery Museum: $306,000 · Arts & CultureCreative …RISE CHATTANOOGA: $134,825 · Arts & Culture+16 more: $705,000 · Arts & Culture+16 moreCHATTANOOGA NEIGHBORHOOD ENTERPRISE: $2,840,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $1,554,175 · EnvironmentGREENSPACES INC: $384,500 · EnvironmentLOOKOUT MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY: $211,000 · Environment+7 more: $84,500 · Environment
Other$16,643,400Philanthropy$7,871,048Community Improvement$6,436,228Education$4,211,450Arts & Culture$3,768,825Housing & Shelter$2,855,000Environment$2,234,175

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc: $4,112,170 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $3,272,500 over 8y, 14% of budgetCHATTANOOGA NEIGHBORHOOD ENTERPRISE: $2,840,000 over 6y, 23% of budgetTHE RIVERCITY COMPANY: $2,662,594 over 8y, 26% of budgetCHATTANOOGA DESIGN STUDIO: $2,235,000 over 7y, 39% of budgetCHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $2,058,500 over 8y, 11% of budgetUnified: $1,671,500 over 6y, 94% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $1,554,175 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCOLAB: $1,310,000 over 8y, 26% of budgetTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $837,000 over 5y, 31% of budgetCAUSEWAY INC: $770,000 over 4y, 89% of budgetARTSBUILD: $713,000 over 6y, 96% of budgetLA PAZ DE DIOS INC: $668,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetTHE TIVOLI THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $554,500 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetPURPOSE POINT COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $500,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetTENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION: $400,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGREENSPACES INC: $384,500 over 8y, 16% of budgetTHE ENTERPRISE CENTER INC: $377,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetERLANGER FOUNDATION: $330,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetCreative Discovery Museum: $306,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetCHATTANOOGA FC FOUNDATION INC: $303,500 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetHabitat for Humanity: $279,000 over 4y, 40% of budgetCHATTANOOGANS IN ACTION FOR LOVE EQUALITY AND BENEVOLENCE: $263,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetCHARLES H COOLIDGE NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR HERITAGE CENTER INC: $257,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF BLACKS IN ENERGY: $244,500 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC: $226,500 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetPROOF PROGRAMS: $225,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetLOOKOUT MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY: $211,000 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION CHATTANOOGA INC: $210,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetTennessee Aquarium: $210,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMEDICOS MISSION FUND: $209,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetBUILDING & CONSTRUCTION WORKFORCE CENTER: $200,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $161,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY CAPITAL CORPORATION D/B/A PATHWAY LENDING: $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT RETURN INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetRISE CHATTANOOGA: $134,825 over 3y, 27% of budgetTHE POP-UP PROJECT: $121,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetCHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $110,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetDYNAMO STUDIOS: $105,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetTHE BESSIE SMITH CULTURAL CENTER: $105,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $103,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF OUTDOOR CHATTANOOGA INC: $97,500 over 3y, 76% of budgetPhilanthropy Southeast Inc: $86,770 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $85,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGlass House Collective: $81,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $78,334 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Robert F Stone Founda…The Community Foundat…Lyndhurst Foundation …Chattanooga Christian…Footprint Foundation …Weldon F Osborne Foun…Hamico IncThe Maclellan Foundat…Robert L & Kathrina H…Tucker FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Schillhahn-Huskey Fou…
Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone FoundationDE133.7× affinity63 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Benwood Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Benwood Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
43report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Benwood Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Benwood Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 196 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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