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Hudson Foundation Inc at a glance

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Hudson Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$21k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Philanthropy$30kEducation$23kHuman Services$22kFood & Nutrition$14kHealth$13kHousing & Shelter$5kYouth Development$3kEmployment$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $500
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$33k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Way of Greater Chattanooga$10,000
Winchester Christian Academy$10,000
Children's Nutrition Prog of Haiti$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 13%High Socks for Hope Inc: $3k → 17%Children's Nutrition Prog of Haiti: $2k → 12%Children's Nutrition Prog of Haiti: $500 → 12%Friends of Special Children: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$58k · 5 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
17

Total granted

$58k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+31%

Still filing today

100%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA
    3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +23%
  • WC
    WINCHESTER CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +111%
  • CA
    Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc
    2× · 2021–2023 · $9k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • AU
    AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +31%
  • CP
    Choices Pregnancy Center
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Chattanooga Regional Homeless Coalition Inc

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…

Community Improvement
2
Family Promise of Greater Chattanooga Inc

Family promise of greater chattanooga's mission is to provide help for homeless families with children be housed and self-sufficient.

Human Services
3
Chattanooga Christian School Inc

To prepare students to lead and serve with distinction while representing christ and his kingdom in all areas of home, church, society and culture.

Education
4
Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation

We guide and encourage donors who are motivated toward kingdom-building generosity. our mission is carried out through four primary initiatives: providing donor-advised funds, inspiring and encouraging generosity within families along the…

Philanthropy
5
Chattanooga Outreach

To provide for the physical, social, and spiritual needs of the homeless and needy.

Education
6
Greater Chattanooga Christian Services Inc

Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling

Human Services
7
Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise

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…

Housing & Shelter
8
Chattahoochee Hospice Inc

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.

Human Services
9
University of Chattanooga Foundation Inc

Support of higher education through special projects of the university of tennessee at chattanooga

Education
10
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Chattanooga Area Inc

Habitat for humanity of greater chattanooga (hfh-gc) brings together businesses, churches, and other community organizations in partnership with low income families to spark authentic transformation in our city through the construction of…

Housing & Shelter
11
Children's Hunger Fund

Our mission is to deliver hope to suffering children by equipping local churches for gospel-centered mercy ministry.

International
12
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Special Children. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Choices Pregnancy Center: $10,000 · OtherChoices Pregnancy CenterIndividual grant recipient: $7,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientThe Salvation Army: $5,000 · OtherThe Salvation ArmyCHATT FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherCHATT FOUNDATIONCHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $3,000 · OtherCHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDRENIndividual grant recipient: $2,731 · OtherIndividual grant recipientChoices Pregnancy Resource Center: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · Other+5 more: $2,550 · Other+5 moreUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA: $30,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANO…WINCHESTER CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $13,000 · EducationWINCHESTER CHRISTIAN AC…AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUND…Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc: $9,000 · Food & NutritionChattanoo…CHILDREN'S NUTRITION PROGRAM OF HAITI INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesHigh Socks for Hope Inc: $2,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF SPECIAL CHILDREN: $1,000 · Human ServicesCHATTANOOGA RESCUE MISSION: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterCHATTANOOGA ENDEAVORS INC: $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$39,281Philanthropy$30,000Education$23,000Food & Nutrition$9,000Human Services$6,000Housing & Shelter$5,000Crime & Legal$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWINCHESTER CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHATTANOOGA RESCUE MISSION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHATT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S NUTRITION PROGRAM OF HAITI INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHigh Socks for Hope Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF SPECIAL CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHATTANOOGA ENDEAVORS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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…Weldon F Osborne Foun…The Chrysalis Foundat…Robert L & Kathrina H…Hamico IncRobert F Stone Founda…The Maclellan Foundat…Give Back FoundationRaymond James Charita…Natl Christian Charit…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…
Chattanooga Christian Community FoundationTN19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · The Chrysalis Foundation · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Hamico Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Give Back Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hudson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hudson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Hudson Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Hudson Foundation Inc 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.

    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 22 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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