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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.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$4.3MHuman Services$515kEducation$434kCommunity Improvement$289kArts & Culture$272kPublic Benefit$241kPhilanthropy$184kRecreation & Sports$170kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $1,941,341, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,076,105 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $134,764 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $69k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.8M
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$505M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC$1,785,091
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST TN$69,000
LAPAZ DE DIOS$20,000
MEDICAL FOUNDATION OF CHATTANOOGA$20,000
THE LIGHT HOUSE COLLECTIVE$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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE BETHLEHEM CENTER: $8k → 15%AMER RED CROSS-ALL CHAP: $20k → 14%SEXUAL ASSAULT ADVOCACY: $9k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST TN: $97k → 12%AMER RED CROSS-ALL CHAP: $20k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST TN: $69k → 12%AMER RED CROSS-ALL CHAP: $20k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST TN: $13k → 12%SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS ADVOCACY: $5k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST TN: $10k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%LAPAZ DE DIOS: $20k → 12%HOPE FOR THE INNER CITY: $6k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
KY
VA
TN
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 40 repeat orgs$349k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
30

Total granted

$6.5M
$289k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+63%

Still filing today

63%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $384k · revenue +33%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $208k · revenue +171%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES
    4× · 2022–2025 · $189k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • LC
    LIFE CARE CENTER OF RED BANK
    one grant, 2018 · $27k
  • OL
    OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • HS
    HOPE SPUR INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise

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…

Housing & Shelter
2
Chattanooga Chamber Foundation

Education regarding matters of public concern to improve the quality and increase the quantity of economic growth and employment opportunities.

Philanthropy
3
Community Health Accreditation Program Inc

Advance the highest quality of home and community-based care.

Health
4
Invest Chattanooga

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.

Housing & Shelter
5
Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
6
Chattanooga Design Studio

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.

Community Improvement
7
Chattahoochee Hospice Inc

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.

Human Services
8
Chattanooga Technology Council Inc

Our mission is to connect chattanooga's technology sector to drive regional economic growth.

Community Improvement
9
Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance

Facilitate networking among hospitals

Health
10
Cumberland Medical Center

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.

Health
11
Christ Community Health Services Augusta Inc

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).

Health
12
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 76 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/46
Grantees still filing
32/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $3,370,332 · OtherMEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INCTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE: $268,497 · OtherCHATTANOOGA HAMILTON COUNTY GOVT: $235,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST TENNESSEE INC: $181,200 · Other+46 more: $1,254,098 · Other+46 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc: $383,750 · HealthAmerican H…WELCOME HOME OF CHATTANOOGA: $114,852 · HealthWELCOME HO…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $71,500 · HealthAMERICAN C…VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CHATTANOOGA INC: $56,500 · HealthVOLUNTEERS…SISKIN HOSPITAL FOR PHYSICAL REHABILITATION INC: $38,000 · HealthSISKIN HOS…+1 more: $5,000 · HealthCATHOLIC CHARITIES: $188,624 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $85,000 · Human ServicesLA PAZ DE DIOS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS ADVOCACY CENTER: $13,750 · Human Services+2 more: $13,500 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC: $208,000 · EducationCHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $17,000 · EducationONE LOVE LEARNING FOUNDATION INC: $16,525 · EducationIVY ACADEMY INC: $13,990 · Education+2 more: $14,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA: $146,586 · PhilanthropyThe Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc: $37,600 · PhilanthropyTOP OF GEORGIA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $55,000 · Community ImprovementPARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIES CHILDREN AND ADULTS INC: $31,500 · Community ImprovementURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA: $27,000 · Community ImprovementCHATTANOOGA REGIONAL HOMELESS COALITION INC: $12,500 · Community ImprovementHunter Museum of American Art: $37,207 · Arts & CultureCHATTANOOGA BOYS CHOIR: $15,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$5,309,627Health$669,602Human Services$320,874Education$269,515Philanthropy$184,186Community Improvement$126,000Arts & Culture$52,207

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $3,370,332 over 2y, 22% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $383,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC: $208,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES: $188,624 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EAST TENNESSEE INC: $181,200 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetGreater Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce: $152,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA: $146,586 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMEDICAL FOUNDATION OF CHATTANOOGA INC: $135,026 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetWELCOME HOME OF CHATTANOOGA: $114,852 over 5y, 10% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $85,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $71,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CHATTANOOGA INC: $56,500 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetTOP OF GEORGIA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $55,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetALLEO HEALTH FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN CHATTANOOGA: $38,650 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSISKIN HOSPITAL FOR PHYSICAL REHABILITATION INC: $38,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc: $37,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHunter Museum of American Art: $37,207 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIES CHILDREN AND ADULTS INC: $31,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA: $27,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA AREA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $17,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetONE LOVE LEARNING FOUNDATION INC: $16,525 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetCHATTANOOGA BOYS CHOIR: $15,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetTHE SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS ADVOCACY CENTER: $13,750 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHATTANOOGA REGIONAL HOMELESS COALITION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetChattanooga Goodwill Industries Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAST CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCATOOSA COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCHATTANOOGA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChattanooga Cares Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR THE INNER CITY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetELLA LIBRARY: $6,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCF ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHATT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELANDBRADLEY CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…United Way of Greater…Weldon F Osborne Foun…Chattanooga Christian…Robert F Stone Founda…The Maclellan Foundat…Robert L & Kathrina H…Lillian L Colby Chari…Southern Health Plan …Benwood Foundation IncLyndhurst Foundation …Tennessee Health Foun…
The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga IncTN40.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Memorial Health Care System Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Memorial Health Care System Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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