· Private foundation
Frank P Pierce Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $191k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $499k
- $250k+1 grant · $333k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $333,333 |
| CHEROKEE REGIONAL LIBRARY SYSTEM | $138,600 |
| CHARLES H COOLIDGE MEDAL OF HONOR HERITAGE CENTER | $100,000 |
| THE GENEROSITY TRUST (DBA NAME OF THE CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOU | $85,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC | $75,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| LIFT YOUTH CENTER INC | $50,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA INC | $25,000 |
| RESTORE 634 INC | $25,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA OUTREACH INC DBA UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $25,000 |
| CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE LOOKOUT MT JUDICIAL CIRCUIT | $25,000 |
| WHITFIELD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $10,500 |
| FRIENDS OF SPECIAL CHILDREN | $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 (FY17–24, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 27% of Frank P Pierce Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +55% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 6 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k 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
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $667k · revenue +16%
- LYLIFT YOUTH CENTER INC3× · 2022–2024 · $275k · revenue +95%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2024 · $150k · revenue +372%
Funded once
- MHMEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM INCone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +8%
- CCCHICKAMAUGA CITY SCHOOL SYSTEMone grant, 2018 · $464k
- YNYMCA NORTH GEORGIA CAMPAIGNone grant, 2023 · $200k
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 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…
Together with our community and partners, we transform generosity into lasting change towards a prosperous and just chattanooga where all can thrive and achieve their full potential.
To prepare students to lead and serve with distinction while representing christ and his kingdom in all areas of home, church, society and culture.
The organization pledges to provide quality programs, service, and technology to meet the unique physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the terminally ill and their families, and to educate the community about end of life issues.
Chattanooga cancer support services has been serving our community for over 80 years. we are dedicated to making a difference in cancer care for underserved adults and their families by offering an integrated approach to programs that…
To benefit and carry out the educational purposes of chattanooga state community college.
Uniting people and resources in building a stronger, healthier community
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.
Our mission is to connect chattanooga's technology sector to drive regional economic growth.
The community foundation of the chattahoochee valley enables and promotes philanthropy that inspires, facilitates and fosters a vibrant and engaged chattahoochee valley.
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…
To show the love of christ to the needy in our area by providing their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whitfield Healthcare Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Restore 6-34 Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 38 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 ERLANGER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFT YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Sixth Cavalry Museum ↗
- Who funds CHARLES H COOLIDGE NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR HERITAGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Restore 6-34 Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SPECIAL CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT ↗
- Who funds GORDON LEE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIES CHILDREN AND ADULTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds WHITFIELD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA NORTHWESTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA HAMILTON COUNTY RESCUE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds CATOOSA COUNTY STOCKING FULL OF LOVE 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: Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Benwood Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Daniel Ashley and Irene Houston Jewell Memorial Foundation · Kennedy Foundation Inc · North Georgia Electric Membership Foundation · Hamico Inc · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation
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 P Pierce Foundation Inc 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.