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Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc

To lead a network of partners and unite the community to eliminate hunger by feeding, nourishing, and empowering those we serve.

$17k
Granted FY2018
3
Grants FY2018
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2018 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$3,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HELPING HANDS ENDING HUNGER$10,350
VALLEY VIEW STORE HOUSE$3,500
JOYFULL SOUND$3,500
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%JOYFULL SOUND: $4k → 12%VALLEY VIEW STORE HOUSE: $4k → 13%HELPING HANDS ENDING HUNGER: $10k → 18%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.
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 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
Just Us Ministires Inc

Providing groceries for those in need without cost to them for floyd, harralson, and polk counties in georgia and cleburne and cherokee counties in alabama

Human Services
2
Inman Methodist Food Pantry

Food pantry

Food & Nutrition
3
Good Samaritan of Manchester Tn Inc

Food bank

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4
Vermillion County Christian Food Center

Community food pantry

Food & Nutrition
5
Christian Community Ministries of Kershaw County

Christian Community Ministries is a financial crisis ministry helping those who fall within our definition of crisis. Except for one paid administrator, we are a totally volunteer organization. We operate as an extension of the servant…

Religion
6
Community Share Ministry Co

Community Share's mission is to feed, clothe, and house people in need within the Polk County, GA and surrounding communities.

Housing & Shelter
7
Hickory County Cares

Food distribution to the needy

Human Services
8
Our Daily Bread Christian Food Ministry Inc

The purpose of this company is to provide food to homeless and indigent families in our area.

Human Services
9
Dale County Rescue Mission

The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.

Human Services
10
Vanceboro Christian Help Center

To provide assistance to needy individuals and families in our community by way of mobile food pantry.

Religion
11
Christian Service Center Inc

Receive donations and disburse to needy.

Human Services
12
Christian Community Cupboard

Reduce hunger and provide food to families in need.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Resource Center of Chattooga; the most unlike its peers is Cleveland State Community College Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2018–2025.

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

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2018 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/48
Grantees still filing
13/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,350 · EducationTRION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCJOYFULL SOUND: $3,500 · OtherJOYFULL SOUNDVALLEY VIEW STORE HOUSE: $3,500 · OtherVALLEY VIEW STORE HOUSE
Education$10,350Other$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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 TRION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia IncGA41.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia Inc · Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc · North Georgia Electric Membership Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Chattanooga · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · George R Johnson Family Foundation · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Faithhope & Charity Recycle Store Inc

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 Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY24–24
    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.

    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 3 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $33M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2018, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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