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Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 567 grants below total $36,405,358 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $37,802,054 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,396,696 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k127 grants · $889k
- $10k–50k304 grants · $6.3M
- $50k–250k109 grants · $11M
- $250k+27 grants · $18M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROSSNORE SCHOOL & CHILDREN'S HOME | $2,500,000 |
| LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,991,461 |
| BIBLE IN THE SCHOOLS | $1,530,282 |
| COVENANT COLLEGE | $1,162,441 |
| GRACE PEACE CHURCH | $1,046,475 |
| 100FOLD | $1,035,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $860,250 |
| BETHLEHEM CENTERS | $737,413 |
| CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $644,188 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION ATLANTA | $526,100 |
| ILLUMINATIONS FOUNDATION INC | $500,000 |
| WAYSIDE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $465,887 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH - CHATTANOOGA | $461,470 |
| CHOICES PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER | $461,321 |
| FIRST THINGS FIRST | $432,382 |
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 (FY20–24, $9.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% 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 +34% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
599 repeat relationships — 428 still active in FY2024, 171 since wound down; 109 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.9M 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
- GGGENEROUS GIVING INC4× · 2020–2023 · $8.3M · revenue +213% · 65% of their budget
- PSPUBLIC SCHOOL BIBLE STUDY COMMITTEE5× · 2020–2024 · $7.7M · revenue +68% · 58% of their budget
- UMUNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +58% · 36% of their budget
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $302k · revenue +36%
- CSCHATTANOOGA SYMPHONY & OPERA ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $302k · revenue +21%
- LMLigonier Ministries Incone grant, 2020 · $301k · revenue -17%
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.
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
Charis Bible Colleges, Inc. (CBC) was established to train and equip individuals to carry out the Gospel of Jesus Christ through practical application through mentoring, training, and teaching.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commission to Every Nation and the most unlike its peers is The Lot Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
916 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. 916 of the 1,395 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GENEROUS GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC SCHOOL BIBLE STUDY COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST THINGS FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds AMG INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds AAA WOMEN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MONTREAT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds 100 FOLD ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds PRAY CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds ON POINT ↗
- Who funds Bethel Bible Village ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA FC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
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: The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Hugh and Charlotte Maclellan Charitable Charitable Trust · Benwood Foundation Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · Hamico Inc · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation · United Way of Greater Chattanooga · Tucker 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 Chattanooga Christian Community 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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