Who are Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Southeast Development Foundation ($616k), City Fields ($465k), The Caring Place ($424k).

Does Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include George R Johnson Family Foundation, Tucker Foundation, The McReynolds Family Foundation.

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Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County

To facilitate ethical stewardship of philanthropic resources by helping connect those resources with the needs of cleveland and bradley county.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 49
Itemized grants FY2024: 47
Organizations funded FY2023: 62%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $2.3M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $15,750
Largest grant, FY2024: $765,000
Organizations funded a year: 9 to 47; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 11
Total assets, FY2024: $15M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 62% of the organizations Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $650k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesInternationalHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	49	$2.3M	31%
FY2023	47	$1.2M	62%
FY2022	32	$1.5M	34%
FY2021	28	$856k	14%
FY2020	36	$2.2M	33%
FY2019	33	$838k	64%
FY2018	10	$358k	70%
FY2017	9	$185k	n/a

92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.3MCommunity Improvement$1.1MHuman Services$1.1MPhilanthropy$1.0MHousing & Shelter$464kReligion$386kYouth Development$338kHealth$278kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Southeast Development Foundation	$616,000	1	100%
City Fields	$464,709	6	18%
The Caring Place	$424,442	6	8%
United Way of the Ocoee Region	$370,950	6	2%
Habitat for Humanity	$317,989	6	93%
The Trousdale School	$266,000	3	7%
Karis Community Health	$133,500	4	5%
Broad Street United Methodist Church	$124,500	2	n/a
Friends of the Greenway Inc	$120,000	4	n/a
Junior Achievement of the Ocoee Region	$106,400	6	19%

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All grantees of Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Southeast Development Foundation	$616,000	1	100%
City Fields	$464,709	6	18%
The Caring Place	$424,442	6	8%
United Way of the Ocoee Region	$370,950	6	2%
Habitat for Humanity	$317,989	6	93%
The Trousdale School	$266,000	3	7%
Karis Community Health	$133,500	4	5%
Broad Street United Methodist Church	$124,500	2	n/a
Friends of the Greenway Inc	$120,000	4	n/a
Junior Achievement of the Ocoee Region	$106,400	6	19%
Cleveland Emergency Shelter Inc	$102,456	4	32%
Higher Calling Wrestling Club Inc	$100,265	4	46%
Mongolian Asia Reachinc	$100,000	2	24%
Campus Crusade for Christ Inc	$100,000	1	n/a
Bradley Cleveland Public Education Foundation	$69,700	2	9%
Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation Inc	$61,580	1	n/a
Cleveland State Community College	$50,648	2	n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc	$46,000	3	0%
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Ocoee Region	$42,199	2	1%
Family Cornerstones Inc	$40,350	3	15%
Lee University	$39,600	2	0%
Family Promise of Bradley County	$36,488	3	5%
100 Black Men of Bradley County Inc	$30,000	3	35%
Samaritan's Purse	$28,000	2	0%
Equal Justice Initiative	$25,000	2	0%
Lifesong for Orphans Inc	$22,500	1	0%
Art is Here Partnership	$21,000	2	n/a
Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc	$20,500	2	0%
Living Stones Church Inc	$20,200	2	n/a
Lydia's House Inc	$20,000	1	1%
The St Luke Foundation for Haiti	$20,000	2	0%
Foundation House Ministries	$19,900	2	5%
Holston Home for Children Inc	$16,100	2	0%
Memorial Health Care System Foundation Inc	$11,000	1	0%
Austin Hatcher Foundation for Pediatric Cancer	$10,000	1	1%
Favor International Inc	$10,000	1	0%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$10,000	1	0%
Free 2 Fly Inc	$10,000	1	3%
Casa Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Shorter University	$7,500	1	0%
CareEQUIP	$7,500	1	11%
Pennsylvania State University	$7,500	1	n/a
Mercyhurst University	$7,500	1	0%
Maryellen Locher Foundation Inc	$7,000	1	n/a
Fellowship of Christian Athletes	$7,000	1	0%
America's Charities	$6,799	1	0%

Plus 62 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.3M), not named here.

Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 37.

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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.

George R Johnson Family FoundationTN34.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George R Johnson Family Foundation · Tucker Foundation · The McReynolds Family Foundation · United Way of the Ocoee Region · Fitzgerald Family Foundation · CS Foundation Inc · Allan Jones Foundation · The Bob & Susan Card Charitable Foundation · Sharpe Family Foundation Inc · Athens Federal Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities 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.

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About Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County

How much does Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County give?: Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County reported 49 itemized grants totaling $2,255,590, out of $2,577,564 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 47 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (36%), Community Improvement (11%), Human Services (11%).
Who are Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Southeast Development Foundation ($616k), City Fields ($465k), The Caring Place ($424k).
Does Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include George R Johnson Family Foundation, Tucker Foundation, The McReynolds Family Foundation.
Where is Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County based?: Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County is based in TN.