· Private foundation
Kennedy Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $534k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION | $1,600,000 |
| MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| HOUSTON MUSEUM OF DECORATIVE ARTS | $100,000 |
| SKYUKA HALL | $84,000 |
| THE COOLIDGE NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR HERITAGE CENTER | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SPECIAL CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL GEORGIA | $20,000 |
| ERLANGER HEALTH | $20,000 |
| SAINT ANNES EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $20,000 |
| RETRIEVING INDEPENDENCE INC | $10,000 |
| HAITI DEAF ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| AGAPE YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER | $10,000 |
| DEO CLINIC INC | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC | $3,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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 +47% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 9 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $439k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $3.9M · revenue +372%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL INC3× · 2022–2024 · $125k · revenue +258%
- AARTSBUILD3× · 2017–2024 · $36k · revenue +180%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF CHATTANOOGAone grant, 2017 · $30k
- CPCHATTANOOGA PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2022 · $25k
- COCHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERDone grant, 2017 · $12k
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.
To improve student achievement in public schools through highly effective teaching, strong leadership, and strategic partnerships so that children succeed in learning and in life.
Chattanooga design studio seeks to elevate the quality of life for all citizens through guidance, collaboration, innovation, and education that promotes livable, accessible, walkable, and humane urban design.
To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.
Wtci enriches lives through quality programs and services that educate, engage, and inspire a lifetime of learning and exploration.
The united way of south central tennessee's mission is to improve lives by advancing opportunities for education, health, and financial stability for all. its vision is to be the primary community solutions leader for human services.
Founded in 1923, the chattanooga theatre centre is a nonprofit community theatre celebrating its 102nd season of bringing quality theatre productions, classes, and workshops to the citizens of chattanooga and surrounding areas. the mission…
To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
To be a successful physician led, professionally managed medical practice that benefits our patients and our community, while supporting the UT Health Science Center's mission through clinical excellence, financial responsibility and a…
The mission of chattacademy is to reimagine what public education can look like in chattanooga, tennessee. chattacademy's mission is to graduate bilingual, biliterate critical thinkers ready to make an impact on the world through top…
Our mission is to connect chattanooga's technology sector to drive regional economic growth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc and 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.
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 54 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 67 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 ERLANGER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON MUSEUM OF DECORATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds SKYUKA HALL ↗
- Who funds ARTSBUILD ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SPECIAL CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds ERLANGER HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Agape Community Center ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds MARY CAMERON ROBINSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEO CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds RETRIEVING INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA 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 · Hamico Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · Benwood Foundation Inc · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation · Tucker Foundation · American Water Charitable Foundationinc
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 Kennedy Foundation Inc 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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