· Private foundation
Frank Jb & Emma S Varallo Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Frank Jb & Emma S Varallo Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Frank Jb & Emma S Varallo Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $634k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k19 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $471k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GENEROSITY TRUST | $186,000 |
| BIBLE IN THE SCHOOLS | $110,000 |
| THE FAITH BASED & COMMUNITY INITIATIVE FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| THE CREATIVE DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $60,000 |
| SISKIN HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $25,000 |
| MEDAL OF HONOR HERITAGE CENTER | $15,000 |
| GRACE ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| YMCA COMMUNITY PROGRAM | $7,500 |
| THE BEACON CENTER OF TENNESSEE | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| CHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL | $5,500 |
| THE UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CHATTANOOGA PREP | $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 (FY17–22, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
38 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2022, 21 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 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
- PSPUBLIC SCHOOL BIBLE STUDY COMMITTEE6× · 2017–2022 · $182k · revenue +68%
- FBFAITH BASED AND COMMUNITY INITIATIVE FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2023 · $135k · revenue +321%
- BBBethel Bible Village5× · 2017–2021 · $66k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- CCCSone grant, 2019 · $12k
- TGTHE GENEROSITY TRUST KINGDOM PARTNERSone grant, 2021 · $11k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
To equip men to initiate and lead for christ in their homes, churches, communities and the marketplace.
To partner with families in providing students a christ-centered and academically challenging education equipping them with a biblical worldview as they grow in understandings, attitudes, skills, and in favor with god and man.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.
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 organization is a christian school with the purpose of educating students in grades pre-k-12 with a christian curriculum with christian teachers in a christian environment.
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.
Family promise of greater chattanooga's mission is to provide help for homeless families with children be housed and self-sufficient.
To advocate for people who are homless or near homeless, strategically planning for housing and services in the community, maximizing resources and collaboarating with community partners to implement housing and services within the…
Christ-centered school educating children of diverse racial & socioeconomic backgrounds by establishing a biblical worldview & preparing each child to flourish academically, emotionally, socially & spiritually.
Private school for grades k-12
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Inc of Chattanooga and the most unlike its peers is Prison Prevention Ministries Inc. 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 40 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) — 3% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 66 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 CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC SCHOOL BIBLE STUDY COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds FAITH BASED AND COMMUNITY INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Creative Discovery Museum ↗
- Who funds Bethel Bible Village ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL INCORPORATED BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BEACON CENTER OF TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S NUTRITION PROGRAM OF HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds Prison Prevention Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds FIRST THINGS FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES H COOLIDGE NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR HERITAGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSBUILD ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TIVOLI THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY AT HIGHLAND PARK ↗
- Who funds MEN OF VALOR ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
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 · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Benwood Foundation Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Hamico Inc · Tucker Foundation · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Schillhahn-Huskey Foundation · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family 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 Frank Jb & Emma S Varallo 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.
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