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Bishop Family Foundation
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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $475k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| THE GENEROSITY TRUST | $75,000 |
| LOVE WITHOUT REASON | $50,000 |
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $50,000 |
| ARTS BUILD | $50,000 |
| CHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $25,000 |
| LONE OAK COMMUNITY CIVIC LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| WHITE OAK BICYCLE CO-OP | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Bishop Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA AREA INC3× · 2021–2023 · $450k · revenue +39%
- CHCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2024 · $445k · revenue +48%
- NNNORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE3× · 2022–2024 · $145k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- WPWAYSIDE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $100k
- BRBRIDGE REFUGEE SERVICES INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -10%
- SMSIGNAL MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +32%
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.
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…
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
Primary health care services: delivery of health care to medically underserved community
In fulfillment of our mission to inspire a culture of understanding and discovery of our natural world through conservation, innovation and leadership, our goal is to build a first class zoo for middle tennessee and to develop a facility…
To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.
Chattanooga design studio seeks to elevate the quality of life for all citizens through guidance, collaboration, innovation, and education that promotes livable, accessible, walkable, and humane urban design.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
To prepare students to lead and serve with distinction while representing christ and his kingdom in all areas of home, church, society and culture.
To identify, prevent, and remedy water pollution statewide through a network of allies and resources.
Arts & business council of greater nashville supports and promotes the arts by driving collaboration between arts and business that contribute to the creativity, vitality, and prosperity of greater nashville/the regions/the city.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Artsbuild and the most unlike its peers is Lone Oak Community Civic League. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 22 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA AREA INC ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds CHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds LOVE WITHOUT REASON INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSBUILD ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE REFUGEE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SIGNAL MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds SIGNAL CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Tennessee Aquarium ↗
- Who funds LONE OAK COMMUNITY CIVIC LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Mountain Goat Trail Alliance Inc ↗
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: Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Benwood Foundation Inc · Lillian L Colby Charitable Fdn Ia · Schillhahn-Huskey Foundation · Hamico Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Jack and Charlotte Frost Family Foundation · The Howard Fund
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 Bishop Family Foundation 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.
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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