Virginia · Public charity
Food City Charitable Foundation
Provide local non profit organizations throughout our region with the additional funds needed to decrease their short falls.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 67
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 55
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.5M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $105,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 55
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.1M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Food City Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325k 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 | 67 | $1.5M | 24% |
| FY2024 | 55 | $1.2M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $778k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $884k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $440k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $561k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $499k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $569k | 43% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Mission School Inc | $884,600 | 8 | 3% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Vall | $305,250 | 9 | 0% |
| The Happy Shoes Project | $220,000 | 5 | 63% |
| Speedway Children's Charities | $208,600 | 8 | 1% |
| Barter Foundation Inc State Theatre of Virginia | $185,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Ballad Health Foundation | $173,481 | 7 | 0% |
| Feeding Southwest Virginia | $171,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Chattanooga Foundation Inc | $169,464 | 2 | 1% |
| Mountain Hope Good Shepherd Clinic Inc | $137,155 | 2 | 2% |
| The Salvation Army | $132,500 | 9 | n/a |
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Where it is load-bearing
Food City Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 101 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Tennessee Health Foundation Inc · Wellmont Health System · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · Mountain States Health Alliance · Eastman Credit Union · Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc · East Tennessee Foundation · The United Company Foundation · The James W and Frances Gibson McGlothlin Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Hamico Inc · Benwood Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Food City Charitable Foundation
- How much does Food City Charitable Foundation give?
- Food City Charitable Foundation reported 67 itemized grants totaling $1,469,201, out of $1,747,035 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 55 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Food City Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (20%), Human Services (16%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Food City Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mountain Mission School Inc ($885k), Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Vall ($305k), The Happy Shoes Project ($220k).
- Does Food City Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Food City Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tennessee Health Foundation Inc, Wellmont Health System, Haslam Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Food City Charitable Foundation based?
- Food City Charitable Foundation is based in VA.
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