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Hamilton County Schools Foundation

The Hamilton County Schools Foundation's mission is to support educational opportunities and excellence for ALL students through the effective mobilization of resources, relationships, and innovation. Together with the community, we advocate for great public schools and help secure the resources that our students need to be successful.

$152k
Granted FY2023
1
Itemized grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$141k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$140,688
Largest grant, FY2023
$140,688
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$340k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Hamilton County Schools Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
Human ServicesEducationArts & Culture
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$141k0%
FY20224$508k75%
FY20211$176kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Education$815kArts & Culture$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hamilton County Schools Tn Department of Education$750,3103n/a
Northside Neighborhood House$50,00012%
Chattanoogahamilton County Public Education Fund$14,47210%
Dynamo Studios$10,00014%

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.

The Howard FundTN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Howard Fund · United Way of Greater Chattanooga · Benwood Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Hamilton County Schools Foundation

How much does Hamilton County Schools Foundation give?
Hamilton County Schools Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $140,688, out of $151,688 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Hamilton County Schools Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (99%), Arts & Culture (1%).
Who are Hamilton County Schools Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2023: Hamilton County Schools Tn Department of Education ($750k), Northside Neighborhood House ($50k), Chattanoogahamilton County Public Education Fund ($14k).
Does Hamilton County Schools Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hamilton County Schools Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Howard Fund, United Way of Greater Chattanooga, Benwood Foundation Inc.
Where is Hamilton County Schools Foundation based?
Hamilton County Schools Foundation is based in TN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 4 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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