Skip to content

Tennessee · Private foundation

Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$280k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
72
Grants FY2025
76
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$27,350
Organizations funded a year
64 to 76
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
14
Total assets, FY2025
$3.8M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesReligionOther
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
FY2025still arriving72$280k4%
FY202476$280k13%
FY202374$280k28%
FY202266$280k23%
FY202164$298kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$457kReligion$240kHuman Services$138kHealth$132kAnimals$118kArts & Culture$77kYouth Development$59kCrime & Legal$31kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
WI
NY
WY
PA
CA
VA
AR
TN
NC
DC
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Turpentine Creek Foundation Inc$90,35041%
The McCallie School$80,00150%
Montverde Academy Inc$50,20030%
King University$50,00050%
Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy$43,10050%
Austin Peay State University Foundation$29,00050%
Addison's Toy Chest Inc$28,530311%
Blount County Children's Advocacy Center Inc$25,83351%
Welcome Home of Chattanooga$24,45651%
Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church$23,0005n/a
Show all 79 grantees
All grantees of Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Turpentine Creek Foundation Inc$90,35041%
The McCallie School$80,00150%
Montverde Academy Inc$50,20030%
King University$50,00050%
Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy$43,10050%
Austin Peay State University Foundation$29,00050%
Addison's Toy Chest Inc$28,530311%
Blount County Children's Advocacy Center Inc$25,83351%
Welcome Home of Chattanooga$24,45651%
Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church$23,0005n/a
Tennessee Aquarium$22,50050%
Girls Preparatory School Inc$22,00050%
Cars Racin for a Dream$20,000217%
Masterpath Inc$18,2002n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$18,06650%
Montessori Elementary at Highland Park$18,00030%
Public School Bible Study Committee$18,00040%
Charlotte Latin Schools$14,50040%
Bright School Inc$13,50030%
Lula Lake Land Trust$13,00051%
Hunter Museum of American Art$12,70050%
The Shepherd's Arms Rescue Mission Inc$12,06750%
The Webb School$11,00020%
Good Neighbors of Blount County$11,00051%
Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc$10,67450%
Chatt Foundation$10,67450%
Chattanooga Room in the Inn Inc$10,47450%
Rhodes College$10,00050%
Campus Outreach Serve Inc$10,0002n/a
Wdm Theatre Co$10,0001n/a
Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography Foundation$9,8201n/a
Children's Nutrition Program of Haiti Inc$9,75050%
Planned Parenthood Southeast Inc$9,50050%
Chattanooga Boys Choir$9,50034%
Stronghold Rescue & Relief$9,50040%
Bowen Theory Education Center Inc$9,0003n/a
The Education Foundation$9,000539%
Chattanooga Symphony & Opera Association$8,66620%
Mark Making$8,50041%
The Childrens Theatre of Charlotte Inc$8,00040%
The Orange Grove Center Inc$8,00050%
United Service Organizations Inc$7,69450%
Baylor School$7,50050%
Crabtree Farms of Chattanooga Inc$7,50040%
Jeff Gordon Childrens Foundation$7,20050%
Friends of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park$7,00020%
The Launch Pad$6,83320%
Go Jen Go Foundation Inc$6,70050%
Womens Impact Fund$6,50050%
Erlanger Foundation$6,00020%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$5,66740%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$5,00030%
First Presbyterian Church$5,0001n/a
Mississippi State University Foundation Inc$5,00030%
Mills Family Foundation Inc$5,0001n/a
Pats Place Child Advocacy Center$4,50030%
Lookout Mountain Conservancy$4,50030%
Southern Environmental Law Center$4,00030%
Reflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center$4,00020%
American Cancer Society Inc$3,50020%
Siskin Hospital for Physical Rehabilitation Inc$3,50020%
Vanderbilt University$3,50030%
The Pop-Up Project$3,50030%
The Aim Center Inc$3,50020%
Westminster Presbyterian Church$3,0001n/a
First Things First Inc$3,00010%
Habitat for Humanity$3,00031%
Samaritan's Purse$2,61120%
National Outdoor Leadership School$2,33340%
Purpose Point Community Resource Center$2,00010%
Joedance Film Festival Inc$2,00021%
A Step Ahead Foundation Inc$2,00010%
Chambliss Center for Children$1,00010%
Equal Justice Initiative$1,00010%
University of Chattanooga Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Unified$1,00011%
American Prairie Foundation$1,0001n/a
Help the Persecuted Inc$1,0001n/a
ArtsPlus$70010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($438k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 68 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTurpentine Creek Foundation Inc: $90,350 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetThe McCallie School: $80,001 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMontverde Academy Inc: $50,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKing University: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChattanooga Girls Leadership Academy: $43,100 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAustin Peay State University Foundation: $29,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAddison's Toy Chest Inc: $28,530 over 3y, 11% of budgetBlount County Children's Advocacy Center Inc: $25,833 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWelcome Home of Chattanooga: $24,456 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTennessee Aquarium: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGirls Preparatory School Inc: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCars Racin for a Dream: $20,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $18,066 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMontessori Elementary at Highland Park: $18,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPublic School Bible Study Committee: $18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCharlotte Latin Schools: $14,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBright School Inc: $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLula Lake Land Trust: $13,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetHunter Museum of American Art: $12,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Shepherd's Arms Rescue Mission Inc: $12,067 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Webb School: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGood Neighbors of Blount County: $11,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc: $10,674 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChatt Foundation: $10,674 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetChattanooga Room in the Inn Inc: $10,474 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetRhodes College: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Nutrition Program of Haiti Inc: $9,750 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Southeast Inc: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChattanooga Boys Choir: $9,500 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetStronghold Rescue & Relief: $9,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Education Foundation: $9,000 over 5y, 39% of budgetChattanooga Symphony & Opera Association: $8,666 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMark Making: $8,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetThe Childrens Theatre of Charlotte Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Orange Grove Center Inc: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Service Organizations Inc: $7,694 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor School: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCrabtree Farms of Chattanooga Inc: $7,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetJeff Gordon Childrens Foundation: $7,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park: $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Launch Pad: $6,833 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGo Jen Go Foundation Inc: $6,700 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWomens Impact Fund: $6,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetErlanger Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $5,667 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMississippi State University Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPats Place Child Advocacy Center: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 68.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

Chattanooga Christian Community FoundationTN58× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

Compare Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation with peer funders

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation

How much does Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation give?
Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation reported 72 grants totaling $280,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 64 and 76 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Religion (17%), Human Services (10%).
Who are Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Turpentine Creek Foundation Inc ($90k), The McCallie School ($80k), Montverde Academy Inc ($50k).
Does Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation, The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc, Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation.
Where is Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation based?
Hazel Montague Hutcheson 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 113 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Hazel Montague Hutcheson’s filings →

More from the funding graph