· Public charity
Memorial Health Care System Inc
As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
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.
The 9 grants below total $1,941,341 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,076,105 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $134,764 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $69k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC | $1,785,091 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST TN | $69,000 |
| THE LIGHT HOUSE COLLECTIVE | $20,000 |
| LAPAZ DE DIOS | $20,000 |
| MEDICAL FOUNDATION OF CHATTANOOGA | $20,000 |
| HUNTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $7,750 |
| THE BETHLEHEM CENTER | $7,500 |
| FIRST-CENTENARY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - ABIDE RESPITE MINISTRY | $6,000 |
| ELLA LIBRARY | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $321k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
40 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 5 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $384k · revenue +33%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $208k · revenue +171%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES4× · 2022–2025 · $189k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- LCLIFE CARE CENTER OF RED BANKone grant, 2018 · $27k
- HSHOPE SPUR INCone grant, 2024 · $20k
- BGBEAUTIFUL GAME INCone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
Mission: to create economically diverse neighborhoods filled with financially empowered citizens and housing for all.vision: all chattanoogans can afford a safe place in a strong neighborhood to call home. belief: we believe the future of…
Education regarding matters of public concern to improve the quality and increase the quantity of economic growth and employment opportunities.
Advance the highest quality of home and community-based care.
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.
We guide and encourage donors who are motivated toward kingdom-building generosity. our mission is carried out through four primary initiatives: providing donor-advised funds, inspiring and encouraging generosity within families along the…
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.
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.
Our mission is to connect chattanooga's technology sector to drive regional economic growth.
Facilitate networking among hospitals
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.
The provision and promotion of quality healthcare to the public through the operation of one or more health centers in medically underserved areas of the central savannah river area (csra).
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
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 American Diabetes Association. 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 40 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 76 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 MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL FOUNDATION OF CHATTANOOGA INC ↗
- Who funds WELCOME HOME OF CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CHATTANOOGA INC ↗
- Who funds TOP OF GEORGIA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds ALLEO HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds SISKIN HOSPITAL FOR PHYSICAL REHABILITATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc ↗
- Who funds Hunter Museum of American Art ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIES CHILDREN AND ADULTS INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA AREA INC ↗
- Who funds LA PAZ DE DIOS INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
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 Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · United Way of Greater Chattanooga · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Lillian L Colby Charitable Fdn Ia · Southern Health Plan Inc · Benwood Foundation Inc · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · Tennessee Health Foundation Inc
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 Memorial Health Care System 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.