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Jack and Charlotte Frost Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2025
24
Organizations funded FY2024
29%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$79,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$600,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 24
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$55M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Jack and Charlotte Frost Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $675k 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 ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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 arriving24$2.8M50%
FY202424$2.0M29%
FY202324$1.9M29%
FY202221$2.6M52%
FY202121$2.5M90%
FY20203$17kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$3.7MHuman Services$2.3MPhilanthropy$2.0MEducation$2.0MHousing & Shelter$914kYouth Development$616kHealth$430kCommunity Improvement$285kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 30 grantees
All grantees of Jack and Charlotte Frost Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Public School Bible Study Committee$1,851,000626%
Bethel Bible Village$1,101,000611%
Tennessee Children's Home Inc$500,00051%
First Presbyterian Church$425,0001n/a
Memorial Health Care System Foundation Inc$400,00015%
Northside Neighborhood House$325,00053%
University of Chattanooga Foundation Inc$300,00011%
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Chattanooga Area Inc$289,00034%
Chattanooga Christian School Inc$275,00021%
Chambliss Center for Children$225,00031%
The Shepherd's Arms Rescue Mission Inc$175,000214%
Mission of Sight$150,0002n/a
Wayside Presbyterian Church$150,0002n/a
The Brave Effect$102,500544%
Purpose Point Community Resource Center$100,00013%
Nonprofit Resource Center$80,000217%
Habitat for Humanity$75,000124%
Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc$65,00010%
Hope for the Inner City Inc$60,00027%
Urban Collective$55,0002n/a
Renew Ministries Inc$50,0001n/a
Tennessee Baptist Childrens Homes Inc$50,0001n/a
Hopes Haven$25,0001n/a
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Chattanooga$25,00012%
Journey Health Foundation$25,00010%
Friends of the Troops$12,00011%
Hope House Utc$10,0001n/a
Southside Youth Development Inc$10,00019%
Addie Ray Racing Inc$10,0001n/a
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc$5,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.8M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Jack and Charlotte Frost Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPublic School Bible Study Committee: $1,851,000 over 6y, 26% of budgetBethel Bible Village: $1,101,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetTennessee Children's Home Inc: $500,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMemorial Health Care System Foundation Inc: $400,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetNorthside Neighborhood House: $325,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetUniversity of Chattanooga Foundation Inc: $300,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Greater Chattanooga Area Inc: $289,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetChattanooga Christian School Inc: $275,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetChambliss Center for Children: $225,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetThe Shepherd's Arms Rescue Mission Inc: $175,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetThe Brave Effect: $102,500 over 5y, 44% of budgetPurpose Point Community Resource Center: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetNonprofit Resource Center: $80,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetHabitat for Humanity: $75,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc: $65,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHope for the Inner City Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Chattanooga: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetJourney Health Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Troops: $12,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSouthside Youth Development Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetAlcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 21.

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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 FoundationTN46.4× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Steve and Lisa Frost Family Foundation · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Hamico Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · Benwood Foundation Inc · McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation · Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation · United Way of Greater Chattanooga

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 Jack and Charlotte Frost Family Foundation

How much does Jack and Charlotte Frost Family Foundation give?
Jack and Charlotte Frost Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $3,375,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Jack and Charlotte Frost Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (27%), Human Services (17%), Philanthropy (15%).
Who are Jack and Charlotte Frost Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Public School Bible Study Committee ($1.9M), Bethel Bible Village ($1.1M), Tennessee Children's Home Inc ($500k).
Does Jack and Charlotte Frost Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jack and Charlotte Frost Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jack and Charlotte Frost Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation, Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation, The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc.
Where is Jack and Charlotte Frost Family Foundation based?
Jack and Charlotte Frost Family 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 60 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.

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