Skip to content
Chattanoogahamilton County Public Education Fund at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Chattanoogahamilton County Public Education Fund

To improve student achievement in public schools through highly effective teaching, strong leadership, and strategic partnerships so that children succeed in learning and in life.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$280k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$3.5MScience & Tech$309k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $351,717, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,028,643 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,676,926 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
  • $250k+1 grant · $280k
$280,114
Median grant
1
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-TECHNOLOGY ASSISTANCE$280,114
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE KNOXVILLE$71,603
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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%UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE CHATTANOOGA: $8k → 12%LEE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS: $6k → 17%CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY: $8k → 13%AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE: $8k → 14%TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS: $6k → 17%AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE: $6k → 14%CHATTANOOGA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE-COLLEGE ACCESS SUPPORT: $154k → 12%CHATTANOOGA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE-COLLEGE ACCESS SUPPORT: $57k → 12%CHATTANOOGA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $6k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-TN CARES DEVICES FOR STUDENTS: $690k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-TECHNOLOGY ASSISTANCE: $387k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-TECHNOLOGY ASSISTANCE: $314k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-TECHNOLOGY ASSISTANCE: $309k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-TECHNOLOGY ASSISTANCE: $280k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-TECHNOLOGY ASSISTANCE: $196k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-TECHNOLOGY ASSISTANCE: $179k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-TECHNOLOGY ASSISTANCE: $178k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-LITERACY GRANT: $143k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS: $100k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS: $93k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - ENGAGE SPARK GRANTS: $69k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-VARIOUS DISCRETIONARY GRANTS: $56k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-VARIOUS DISCRETIONARY GRANTS: $54k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-TEACHERPRENEUR: $43k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-TEACHERPRENEUR: $43k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION VARIOUS DISCRETIONARY GRANTS: $43k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-TEACHERPRENEUR: $40k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-ENGAGE FUNDING: $35k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-TEACHERPRENEUR GRANTS: $31k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-OPPORTUNITY ZONE SCHOOLS: $29k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-ENGAGE FUNDING: $21k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-TEACHERPRENEUR: $11k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-TEACHERPRENEUR GRANTS: $8k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS: $8k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-ENGAGE SPARK GRANTS: $7k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-ENGAGE FUNDING: $7k → 12%HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - WOODMORE FUND: $5k → 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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 5 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$3.7M
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+16%

Still filing today

60%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • CS
    CHATTANOOGA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2023 · $216k · revenue +196%
  • AS
    Agnes Scott College
    2× · 2023–2024 · $14k · revenue +9%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $12k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • LU
    LEE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +14%
  • CA
    Clark Atlanta University Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +16%
  • TS
    TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
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
04the grantee network

5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 8 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
5/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAMILTON COUNTY SCHOOLS TN DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $3,380,935 · OtherHAMILTON COUNTY SCHOOLS TN DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION+4 more: $147,593 · OtherCHATTANOOGA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $216,262 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $11,674 · Education+1 more: $7,500 · Education
Other$3,528,528Education$235,436

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHATTANOOGA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $216,262 over 3y, 13% of budgetAgnes Scott College: $13,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEE UNIVERSITY: $12,690 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $11,674 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 CHATTANOOGA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Agnes Scott College ↗
  • Who funds LEE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Clark Atlanta University Inc ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Chattanoogahamilton County Public Education Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chattanoogahamilton County Public Education Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%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 · 0–60%
    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.

    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 8 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Chattanoogahamilton County Public Education’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home