· Private foundation
Lyndhurst Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k55 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $893k
- $50k–250k42 grants · $3.9M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHA Charitable Benefit Corporation | $750,000 |
| CNE | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $325,000 |
| Trust for Public Land-TN Office | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $236,500 |
| CNE | $225,000 |
| City of Chatt-Transportation Dept | $200,000 |
| River City Company | $200,000 |
| Tivoli Theatre Foundation | $200,000 |
| ArtsBuild | $170,000 |
| Public Education Fdn | $150,000 |
| ArtsBuild | $140,000 |
| Austin Hatcher Foundation | $125,000 |
| Chatt Audubon Society Inc | $115,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $850k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +46% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
121 repeat relationships — 75 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M 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
- TRTHE RIVERCITY COMPANY5× · 2020–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +58% · 26% of their budget
- OSOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC3× · 2020–2022 · $2.2M · revenue +297% · 41% of their budget
- AARTSBUILD5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +166%
Funded once
MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $326k · revenue -17%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $125k
- MMMEDICOS MISSION FUNDone grant, 2022 · $120k · revenue -9%
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.
Our mission is to connect chattanooga's technology sector to drive regional economic growth.
Arts & business council of greater nashville supports and promotes the arts by driving collaboration between arts and business that contribute to the creativity, vitality, and prosperity of greater nashville/the regions/the city.
Encourage economic development
The mission of the urbanart commission is to create opportunities for artists and neighborhoods to connect and shape spaces through public art.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
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…
Invest chattanooga uses flexible, low-cost capital and strategic public-private partnerships to produce financially sustainable, mixed-income housing with deep permanent affordability that the market alone cannot deliver.
Education regarding matters of public concern to improve the quality and increase the quantity of economic growth and employment opportunities.
To provide facilities, services, and programs of the highest quality for the greatest benefit of the people, institutions, and communities of the state, and to take a leadership role in fostering the performing arts, arts education,…
To restore and protect clean water and healthy ecosystems for rivers in tennessee by employing scientific expertise and collaborative relationships to develop, promote, and support broad community stewardship and action.
To identify, prevent, and remedy water pollution statewide through a network of allies and resources.
Creative works is organized to accelerate cultural and economic change by focusing on connecting, inspiring and educating the memphis creative community.
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 Harvard Club of Ny Historical Foundation. 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 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
135 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. 135 of the 244 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE RIVERCITY COMPANY ↗
- Who funds OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSBUILD ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA DESIGN STUDIO ↗
- Who funds THE TIVOLI THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CHA CHARITABLE BENEFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GREENSPACES INC ↗
- Who funds LAUNCH INC ↗
- Who funds RISE CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds THRIVE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION WORKFORCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LA PAZ DE DIOS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE POP-UP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TENNESSEE RIVER GORGE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SOUNDCORPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHATTERY ↗
- Who funds COLAB ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds SPLASH ↗
- Who funds Scenic Dade Development Company ↗
- Who funds CHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
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: Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · Benwood Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Footprint Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Riverview Foundation Inc · McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation · Hamico Inc · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation · George R Johnson Family Foundation
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 Lyndhurst 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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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