· Private foundation
Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k65 grants · $171k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $109k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TURPENTINE CREEK FOUNDATION INC | $27,350 |
| MCCALLIE SCHOOL | $23,001 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $15,300 |
| CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD | $12,500 |
| CHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY | $11,000 |
| CARS RACING FOR A DREAM | $10,000 |
| KING UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| SOCIETY OF DIAGNOSTIC MEDICAL SONOGRAPHY FOUNDATION | $9,820 |
| ADDISON'S TOY CHEST | $7,530 |
| BRIGHT SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| ALS CENTER AT ERLANGER | $7,000 |
| TENNESSEE AQUARIUM | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY | $6,000 |
| NEW HOPE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $5,833 |
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 (FY21–25, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +9% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
87 repeat relationships — 69 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- TCTURPENTINE CREEK FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $90k · revenue +18%
- TMTHE MCCALLIE SCHOOL5× · 2021–2025 · $80k · revenue +12%
- MAMONTVERDE ACADEMY INC3× · 2021–2023 · $50k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- WTWDM THEATRE COone grant, 2024 · $10k
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $5k
- ESELKINS SENIOR ACTIVITIES AND WELLNESSone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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.
To prepare students to lead and serve with distinction while representing christ and his kingdom in all areas of home, church, society and culture.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
Through excellence in education, charlotte country day school develops the potential of each student by fostering intellectual curiosity, principled character, ethical leadership and a responsibility to serve. the key values and…
We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…
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.
Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chattanooga Room in the Inn Inc and the most unlike its peers is Unified. 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 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
72 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. 72 of the 113 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 TURPENTINE CREEK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MONTVERDE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds KING UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADDISON'S TOY CHEST INC ↗
- Who funds BLOUNT COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WELCOME HOME OF CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds Tennessee Aquarium ↗
- Who funds GIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CARS RACIN FOR A DREAM ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC SCHOOL BIBLE STUDY COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY AT HIGHLAND PARK ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LULA LAKE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Hunter Museum of American Art ↗
- Who funds THE SHEPHERD'S ARMS RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBORS OF BLOUNT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE WEBB SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds CHATT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA ROOM IN THE INN INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPUS OUTREACH SERVE 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 · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · Benwood Foundation Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Footprint Foundation Inc · Hamico Inc · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation · Tucker 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 Hazel Montague Hutcheson 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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