· Private foundation
Lonnie & Kitty Strickland Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of LONNIE & KITTY STRICKLAND CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $245k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $30,000 |
| TUSCALOOSA CITY SCHOOLS FUND | $25,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $25,000 |
| THE SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| MCCLLEON WOMEN'S SHELTER CARE OF THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CHATTANOOGA | $25,000 |
| STRICK'S GIFT | $20,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $12,500 |
| ALABAMA PUBLIC TELEVISION | $12,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA AREA FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| NEXT DOOR | $10,000 |
| HOPE INCLUDED | $10,000 |
| MEDICOS MISSION FUND | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CHATT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BLACK WARRIOR HERITAGE SOCIETY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +6% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 20 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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
- BSBAYLOR SCHOOL3× · 2023–2025 · $11k · revenue +24%
- OFOUTREACH FOUNDATION OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INC2× · 2023–2024 · $8k · revenue +6%
- HIHome In Place5× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- SISCHOOL IN HAITIone grant, 2024 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $25k
- BDBETTER DECISIONSone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
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.
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
Earthenable works to solve the housing crisis in africa by revolutionizing the rural housing industry through innovative, affordable, and sustainable home-building solutions. its mission is to create healthier, safer, and climate-resilient…
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.
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 foster a sustainable network of community health workers and to train frontline public health professionals who possess a deep understanding of and strong ties to the local community.
To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
Primary health care services: delivery of health care to medically underserved community
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alive Hospice Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hope Included. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 102 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 MEDICOS MISSION FUND ↗
- Who funds WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BETTER DECISIONS ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK WARRIOR HERITAGE SOCIETY FNDTN ↗
- Who funds Hope Included ↗
- Who funds CHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CHATT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH FOUNDATION OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INC ↗
- Who funds Home In Place ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds OASIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MOVE INCLUSIVE DANCE ↗
- Who funds Elder Mountain Volunteer Service Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ELEPHANT FOUNDATION ↗
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: The James I Harrison Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Reese Phifer Jr Memorial Attn Susan Cork · Nick's Kids Foundation Inc · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · McAbee Family Foundation · Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation · Benwood Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham
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 Lonnie & Kitty Strickland Charitable Foundation 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.