· Private foundation
Crichton Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $260k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| the Land Trust for Tennessee | $50,000 |
| Cumberland Heights Foundation Inc | $50,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of SC Tn | $25,000 |
| East Lake Expression Engine | $20,000 |
| Friends of Chattanooga Prep | $20,000 |
| Room In The Inn | $20,000 |
| Well Outreach Foundation | $20,000 |
| Maury Regional Healthcare Fndn | $20,000 |
| Miracle League of Columbia | $20,000 |
| CHATT Foundation | $15,000 |
| Lookout Mountain Presby Church | $15,000 |
| South Central Family Center Inc | $15,000 |
| James K Polk Memorial Association | $10,000 |
| Every Valley Leadership Academy | $10,000 |
| Wm Magee Ctr for Wellness Education Fndn | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +11% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
- CHCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $325k · revenue +49%
- FOFRIENDS OF CHATTANOOGA PREP INC6× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +944%
- MRMAURY REGIONAL HEATHCARE FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- CACOLUMBIA ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -3%
- MLMIRACLE LEAGUE OF COLUMBIA AT MAURY COUNTY PARKone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -66%
- LMLOOKOUT MOUNTAIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
Mental health cooperative inc. (mhc) provides integrated health services that include behavioral health care, primary health care, addiction services, and community-based care management. mhc also provides emergency psychiatric services…
Provide behavioral health services to clients located in middle and east tennessee
Operation of public tv station.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Pregnancy testing, limited obstetrical ultrasounds, sti testing and treatment, and educational programs.
To empower individuals living with disabilities and challenges to gain independence
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Mission: to create economically diverse neighborhoods filled with financially empowered citizens and housing for all.vision: all chattanoogans can afford a safe place in a strong neighborhood to call home. belief: we believe the future of…
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
The partnership supports maury county and city governments to enhance and promote economic development opportunities in the county.
Memphis recovery centers, inc. (mrc) provides compassionate treatment services for youth and adults suffering from substance addiction and co-occurring disorders, utilizing professional methods to improve spiritual, physical, emotional,…
Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Maury County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Maury United Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 40 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 CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TENN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHATTANOOGA PREP INC ↗
- Who funds MAURY REGIONAL HEATHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHATT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST LAKE EXPRESSION ENGINE ↗
- Who funds CASA OF MAURY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR THE INNER CITY INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CENTRAL FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAURY COUNTY ARTS GUILD ↗
- Who funds EVERY VALLEY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JAMES K POLK MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF COLUMBIA AT MAURY COUNTY PARK ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Centers of Middle Tennessee Inc ↗
- Who funds RENEWAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ABE'S GARDEN ↗
- Who funds ROSE HILL CEMETERY CORPORATION CO KAYLA SOUTHERN ↗
- Who funds Maury United Ministries ↗
- Who funds CENTER OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Jeff & Tina Adams Family Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Frist Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · The Independent Charitable Gift Fund · United Way of Maury County 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 Crichton 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.