Tennessee · Private foundation
Chazen Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $30k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $115k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Chazen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $24k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $49k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $72k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $53k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $75k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $78k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $64k | 29% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor School | $50,000 | 4 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater Chattanooga | $45,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hunter Museum of American Art | $37,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc | $26,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Creative Discovery Museum | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Mizpah Congregation | $19,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Lee University | $10,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Artsbuild | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Little Miss Mag Early Learning Center | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Chattanooga Inc | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($274k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Chazen Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Hamico Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Benwood Foundation Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · The Howard Fund · The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation Inc · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · Tennessee Health Foundation Inc · Kennedy Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Chazen Family Foundation
- How much does Chazen Family Foundation give?
- Chazen Family Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $30,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Chazen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (33%), Education (20%), Health (19%).
- Who are Chazen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Baylor School ($50k), United Way of Greater Chattanooga ($45k), Hunter Museum of American Art ($38k).
- Does Chazen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Chazen Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Chazen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation, The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc, Hamico Inc.
- Where is Chazen Family Foundation based?
- Chazen Family Foundation is based in TN.
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