· Community foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND AND BRADLEY COUNTY’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 49 grants below total $2,255,590 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,577,564 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $321,974 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 $10k10 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $584k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $831k
- $250k+1 grant · $765k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF TN AT CHATTANOOGA | $765,000 |
| CITY FIELDS | $175,176 |
| TROUSDALE SCHOOL | $124,000 |
| THE CARING PLACE | $90,746 |
| BUFFALO BILL CENTER OF THE WEST | $75,624 |
| CLEVELAND FAMILY YMCA | $70,500 |
| BROAD STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $65,500 |
| BRADLEY CLEVELAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $60,500 |
| WOODSONG FOREST SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| CLEVELAND EMERGENCY SHELTER | $57,456 |
| WESTWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH | $51,067 |
| CLEVELAND STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $45,500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $44,025 |
| UNITED WAY OF OCOEE REGION | $42,500 |
| ST MARY'S SCHOOL | $40,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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 +21% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 15 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
- CFCITY FIELDS6× · 2019–2024 · $465k · revenue +94%
- TCTHE CARING PLACE6× · 2018–2024 · $424k · revenue +251%
- TTThe Trousdale School3× · 2022–2024 · $266k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- SDSOUTHEAST DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $616k · revenue -98% · 100% of their budget
- CCCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INCone grant, 2023 · $100k
- COCITY OF CLEVELANDone grant, 2021 · $81k
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.
Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.
Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…
Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.
Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.
We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.
Family promise of greater chattanooga's mission is to provide help for homeless families with children be housed and self-sufficient.
Okaloosa habitat for humanity is a non-profit, christian organization dedicated to eliminating substandard housing in okaloosa county. we provide opportunites for the community to show god's love in action. through partnership with people…
Our mission is to break the cycle of child abuse by empowering children, families and communities.
Miracle hill ministries is committed to life transformation for children and adults experiencing homelessness. more information and program outcomes may be found at www.miraclehill.org.
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
Childcare Worldwide (CW) transforms children's lives by exposing them to the gospel of Jesus Christ, providing for their physical needs, and sponsoring their education. We connect sponsors with children through Christ-based life centers.…
Habitat for humanity of greater chattanooga (hfh-gc) brings together businesses, churches, and other community organizations in partnership with low income families to spark authentic transformation in our city through the construction of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Caring Place and the most unlike its peers is Southeast Development Foundation. 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 32 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 108 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 SOUTHEAST DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY FIELDS ↗
- Who funds THE CARING PLACE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE OCOEE REGION ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds The Trousdale School ↗
- Who funds KARIS COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE OCOEE REGION ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND EMERGENCY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER CALLING WRESTLING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MONGOLIAN ASIA REACHINC ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY CLEVELAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DESTIN CHARITY WINE AUCTION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
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: 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
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 Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County 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.