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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA | $10,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA AREA FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA | $5,000 |
| HUNTER MUSEUM OF ART | $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 (FY17–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BSBAYLOR SCHOOL4× · 2017–2020 · $50k · revenue +46%
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA5× · 2017–2023 · $45k · revenue +23%
- HMHunter Museum of American Art8× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +127%
Funded once
- SNST NICHOLAS SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $10k
- UWUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -18%
- CNCHILDREN'S NUTRITION PROGRAM OF HAITI INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +51%
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.
Girls inc. of chattanooga inspires and equips girls to be strong, smart and bold leaders within their families, their communities and society.
To advance state policies and practices that ensure all tennessee children from birth through 3rd grade get the high quality early education they need to power our state's future.
The united way of south central tennessee's mission is to improve lives by advancing opportunities for education, health, and financial stability for all. its vision is to be the primary community solutions leader for human services.
Inspiring girls ages 5-19 to become strong, smart & bold
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.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
The mission is to create memorable learning experiences through the joy of play, in hands-on exhibits and programs. we accomplish this mission by reaching out to the mid-south school children, families, and the tourist visitor.
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.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
The mission of chattacademy is to reimagine what public education can look like in chattanooga, tennessee. chattacademy's mission is to graduate bilingual, biliterate critical thinkers ready to make an impact on the world through top…
To improve the quality of the educational experience in the hamilton county schools by providing support in the form of fundraising opportunities, recognition awards, and other charitable programs.
The mission of the charter school is to inspire all their children to the highest levels of academic achievement through a rigorous curriculum that integrates the wonders of the natural world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Artsbuild and the most unlike its peers is Polly Boyd Scholarship Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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. 22 of the 30 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 BAYLOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds Hunter Museum of American Art ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Creative Discovery Museum ↗
- Who funds LEE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ARTSBUILD ↗
- Who funds LITTLE MISS MAG EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S NUTRITION PROGRAM OF HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds SIGNAL CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOSE & GARRISON SISKIN MEMORIAL FDN INC D/B/A SISKIN CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SISKIN HOSPITAL FOR PHYSICAL REHABILITATION INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE RIVER GARDENS ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CONSCIENCE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds POLLY BOYD SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
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 · 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
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 Chazen 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.