· Private foundation
Hamico 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 $10k25 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $309k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $855k
- $250k+2 grants · $592k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHI MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $315,050 |
| BAYLOR SCHOOL | $276,760 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA | $207,000 |
| UCF HONORS COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP | $150,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $134,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHATTANOOGA | $80,000 |
| ON POINT | $77,500 |
| CHATTANOOGA AREA FOODBANK | $55,000 |
| ST PETER'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $51,000 |
| LAPAZ CHATTANOOGA | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $50,000 |
| HUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY | $40,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA 20 | $35,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
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, $244k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
95 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 3 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- BSBAYLOR SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +46%
- MHMEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +260% · 33% of their budget
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA5× · 2020–2024 · $847k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION DAFone grant, 2020 · $200k
- UWUCF WOLFORD FAMILY ATHLETICS COMPLEXone grant, 2021 · $167k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +346%
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.
Our mission is to connect chattanooga's technology sector to drive regional economic growth.
Chattanooga design studio seeks to elevate the quality of life for all citizens through guidance, collaboration, innovation, and education that promotes livable, accessible, walkable, and humane urban design.
Encourage economic development
The mission of chattacademy is to reimagine what public education can look like in chattanooga, tennessee. chattacademy's mission is to graduate bilingual, biliterate critical thinkers ready to make an impact on the world through top…
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…
To provide high-quality musical presentations and educational programs in the chattanooga area
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 serve through the power of dance.
Invest chattanooga uses flexible, low-cost capital and strategic public-private partnerships to produce financially sustainable, mixed-income housing with deep permanent affordability that the market alone cannot deliver.
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.
The united way of south central tennessee's mission is to improve lives by advancing opportunities for education, health, and financial stability for all. its vision is to be the primary community solutions leader for human services.
To protect the architectural heritage of chattanooga through historic preservation, advocacy, and education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc and the most unlike its peers is Polly Boyd Scholarship Fund. 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 39 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
78 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. 78 of the 151 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 BAYLOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds ON POINT ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY AT HIGHLAND PARK ↗
- Who funds SISKIN HOSPITAL FOR PHYSICAL REHABILITATION INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LA PAZ DE DIOS INC ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA AREA INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSBUILD ↗
- Who funds The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc ↗
- Who funds A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds MOSE & GARRISON SISKIN MEMORIAL FDN INC D/B/A SISKIN CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LAUNCH INC ↗
- Who funds SIGNAL CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN HATCHER FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC CANCER ↗
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 · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Benwood Foundation Inc · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · Tucker Foundation · The Howard Fund · George R Johnson Family Foundation · Southern Health Plan 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 Hamico 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.
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