· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THE BEACON CENTER OF TENNESSEE | $7,500 |
| YMCA COMMUNITY PROGRAM | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| CHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL | $5,500 |
| HAMILTON FLOURISHING | $5,000 |
| PRISON PREVENTION MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 CHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE TIVOLI THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEN OF VALOR ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY AT HIGHLAND PARK ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Frank Jb & Emma S Varallo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank Jb & Emma S Varallo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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