· Private foundation
Kennedy Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SAINT ANNES EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $20,000 |
| ERLANGER HEALTH | $20,000 |
| RETRIEVING INDEPENDENCE INC | $10,000 |
| DEO CLINIC INC | $10,000 |
| HAITI DEAF ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| AGAPE YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 67 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ERLANGER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON MUSEUM OF DECORATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- 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 DEO CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds MARY CAMERON ROBINSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds RETRIEVING INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kennedy Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kennedy Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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