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Riverview Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$670k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Environment$3.3MEducation$2.1MRecreation & Sports$1.2MArts & Culture$904kCommunity Improvement$418kHealth$287kHousing & Shelter$185kScience & Tech$170kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $525k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION$200,000
TENNESSEE RIVER GORGE TRUST$75,000
NUCI PHILLIPS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$75,000
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY$75,000
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$50,000
CUMBERLAND TRAILS CONFERENCE$50,000
THRIVE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP INC$30,000
COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM$25,000
LULA LAKE LAND TRUST$25,000
CITY OF ELBERTON GEORGIA$22,830
NATIONAL PARK PARTNERS$22,000
HOMEGROWN NATIONAL PARK INC$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $50k → 13%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $50k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
CT
CO
VA
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Riverview Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 36% of the giving stays in TN; read by stated purpose it is 34% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Riverview Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.1% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.8M · 33 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
40

Total granted

$6.8M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+44%

Still filing today

82%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentRecreation & SportsArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther

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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +112%
  • OS
    OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $830k · revenue +92%
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    5× · 2018–2024 · $475k · revenue +119%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE RIVERCITY COMPANYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +134%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $114k
  • TC
    THE CLASSIC CENTER CULTURAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -47%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Tenngreen Land Conservancy

The organization's primary mission is conserving land where people and nature can thrive by creating green corridors linking existing public lands using conservation easments and outright purchase.

Recreation & Sports
2
Three Rivers Land Trust Inc

Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland

Environment
3
Catawba Lands Conservancy

As a nationally accredited land trust, we conserve and manage land for public benefit in North Carolinas Southern Piedmont. We have conserved 235 properties, totaling 17,786 acres of land. We also facilitate the creation of a 1600 mile…

Environment
4
Mountain Conservation Trust of Georgia Inc

To promote permanent conservation of the natural resources and scenic beauty of the mountains and foothills of north georgia through land protection, collaborative partnerships and education.

Environment
5
Atlantic Coast Conservancy Inc

The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…

Environment
6
The South Fork Conservancy Incorporated

The mission of the South Fork Conservancy is to restore and preserve habitat along the tributaries of Peachtree Creek. We give the community access to these healthy, restored greenspaces by designing, building and maintaining nature trails.

Environment
7
Tennessee State Parks Conservancy

To support education, health and access programs that preserve, protect, and enhance Tennessee's natural areas and parks system.

Environment
8
Congaree Land Trust

The congaree land trust was established to promote voluntary conservation of scenic lands, open spaces, farms, forests, natural areas and significant habitats in central south carolina.

Environment
9
The Land Trust of North Alabama Inc

The land trust leads regional and community collaborations that plan, preserve and provide stewardship for green space in north alabama. our mission is to preserve and protect north alabama's scenic, historic, and ecological resources…

Environment
10
Appalachian Trail Conservancy

To help protect the 2,200 mile appalachian national scenic trail and 370,000 acres of land in the appalachian trail (a.t. or the trail) corridor; advocate for the trail; compile and disseminate educational information; and cooperatively…

Recreation & Sports
11
Lake Champlain Land Trust Inc

The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…

Environment
12
Wild South

We inspire people to enjoy, value and protect the wild character and natural legacy of the South.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Tennessee River Gorge Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Historic Cobbham Foundation Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyTennessee Industry & Profes…Industry & Sector Associati…Regional Arts OrganizationsFamily Philanthropic Founda…Healthcare Systems and Foun…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr16%31%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%2/52
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,513

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.

05the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 77 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
35/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC — $830,000 · EnvironmentOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRU…THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $475,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDLOOKOUT MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY — $275,000 · EnvironmentLOOKOUT MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCYTHE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC — $187,500 · EnvironmentTHE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE …LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC — $140,000 · EnvironmentLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INCATHENS LAND TRUST INC — $125,000 · EnvironmentTHE TENNESSEE RIVER GORGE TRUST INC — $100,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHEASTERN CAVE CONSERVANCY INC — $80,000 · Environment+4 more — $169,500 · Environment+4 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION — $1,716,650 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA…BOOKS FOR KEEPS INC — $215,500 · EducationBOOKS FOR KEEPS INC+3 more — $130,000 · Education+3 moreTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $300,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYIndividual grant recipient — $120,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $114,476 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherSOUTHEASTERN CLIMBERS COALITION INC — $98,200 · OtherTHE NUCI PHILLIPS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $265,000 · OtherTHE NUCI PHILLIPS MEMORIAL FOUNDAT…SONGS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 · OtherTHE RIVERCITY COMPANY — $150,000 · OtherTHE RIVERCITY COMPANYMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC — $100,000 · Other+32 more — $1,385,035 · Other+32 moreFIREFLY TRAIL INC — $445,000 · Recreation & SportsMountain Goat Trail Alliance Inc — $75,000 · Recreation & SportsCUMBERLAND TRAILS CONFERENCE — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsPATH FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Recreation & Sports+3 more — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsSONGBIRDS FOUNDATION INC — $275,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CLASSIC CENTER CULTURAL FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE CHICKAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL MILITARY PARK — $72,000 · Arts & CultureCOUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureGEORGIA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureSOUNDCORPS INC — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHRIVE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP INC — $220,010 · Public BenefitScenic Dade Development Company — $105,000 · Public BenefitLULA LAKE LAND TRUST — $190,000 · PhilanthropyHISTORIC COBBHAM FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 · PhilanthropyCRABTREE FARMS OF CHATTANOOGA INC — $32,000 · Philanthropy
Environment$2,382,000Education$2,062,150Other$2,757,711Recreation & Sports$650,000Arts & Culture$567,000Public Benefit$325,010Philanthropy$287,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION — $1,716,650 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC — $830,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $475,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFIREFLY TRAIL INC — $445,000 over 5y, 87% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOOKOUT MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY — $275,000 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetSONGBIRDS FOUNDATION INC — $275,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetTHE NUCI PHILLIPS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $265,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetTHRIVE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP INC — $220,010 over 5y, 17% of budgetBOOKS FOR KEEPS INC — $215,500 over 6y, 12% of budgetLULA LAKE LAND TRUST — $190,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC — $187,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTHE RIVERCITY COMPANY — $150,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC — $140,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetATHENS LAND TRUST INC — $125,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetSONGS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetScenic Dade Development Company — $105,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CLASSIC CENTER CULTURAL FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTHE TENNESSEE RIVER GORGE TRUST INC — $100,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN CLIMBERS COALITION INC — $98,200 over 2y, 16% of budgetMountain Goat Trail Alliance Inc — $75,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCHARLES H COOLIDGE NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR HERITAGE CENTER INC — $75,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCONSERVATION LEGACY — $74,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHICKAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL MILITARY PARK — $72,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetSANDY CREEK NATURE CENTER INC — $68,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetTennessee Aquarium — $66,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH — $65,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC COBBHAM FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 over 1y, 73% of budgetCUMBERLAND TRAILS CONFERENCE — $50,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATH FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN CHATTANOOGA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetREFLECTION RIDING ARBORETUM AND NATURE CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetOCONEE RIVER LAND TRUST — $41,500 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetGEORGIA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetCRABTREE FARMS OF CHATTANOOGA INC — $32,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetTHE ACCESS FUND — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHATTANOOGA DESIGN STUDIO — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHOMEGROWN NATIONAL PARK INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWILD TRAILS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetIN OUR BACKYARDS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMIRACLE LEAGUE OF CHATTANOOGA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF OUTDOOR CHATTANOOGA INC — $10,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetBIKE WALK TENNESSEE — $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCONTEMPORARY PERFORMING ARTS OF CHATTANOOGA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budget
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.

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.

Lyndhurst Foundation …Benwood Foundation IncRobert F Stone Founda…Footprint Foundation …The Community Foundat…Chattanooga Christian…Tucker FoundationHazel Montague Hutche…The Maclellan Foundat…American Water Charit…The Chattanooga Touri…Schillhahn-Huskey Fou…
Lyndhurst Foundation IncTN53.4× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · Benwood Foundation Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · Footprint Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Tucker Foundation · Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · The Chattanooga Tourism Foundation · Schillhahn-Huskey 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 Riverview 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Riverview Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Riverview Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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