· Private foundation
Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of ROBERT L & KATHRINA H MACLELLAN FOUNDA 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $154k
- $50k–250k22 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+3 grants · $970k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $350,000 |
| KING UNIVERSITY | $320,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC | $300,000 |
| HAMILTON COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $150,000 |
| THE MACLELLAN FOUNDATION (SCOTLAND) | $131,325 |
| AAA WOMENS SERVICES INC | $100,000 |
| LIFESPRING COMMUNITY HEALTH | $100,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA FC FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES | $80,000 |
| EAST LAKE EXPRESSION ENGINE | $80,000 |
| YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN CHATTANOOGA | $75,000 |
| ON POINT | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| SIGNAL CENTERS | $75,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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 +44% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
77 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 7 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $452k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA8× · 2017–2024 · $728k · revenue +23%
- CCCHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC6× · 2017–2022 · $596k · revenue +135%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN CHATTANOOGA7× · 2018–2024 · $390k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- TMTHE MACLELLAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $131k
- TYTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue -94%
- HCHAMILTON COUNTY GOVERNMENTone grant, 2019 · $55k
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.
To equip men to initiate and lead for christ in their homes, churches, communities and the marketplace.
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
To develope the next generation of christian leaders by providing education, mentoring, vocational experience, and leadership training
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…
Charlotte christian school is a christ-centered, college preparatory school, equipping and developing students to effectively integrate biblical truth and learning nto their daily lives and to impact the culture for christ.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
Family promise of greater chattanooga's mission is to provide help for homeless families with children be housed and self-sufficient.
To partner with families in providing students a christ-centered and academically challenging education equipping them with a biblical worldview as they grow in understandings, attitudes, skills, and in favor with god and man.
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 Downside Up Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% 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.
105 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. 105 of the 147 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 CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KING UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ON POINT ↗
- Who funds Givers Legacy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC SCHOOL BIBLE STUDY COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds CHALMERS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESPRING COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds The House University Ministries ↗
- Who funds MISSION INCREASE ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LA PAZ DE DIOS INC ↗
- Who funds Bethel Bible Village ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST LAKE EXPRESSION ENGINE ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds RICHMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PURPOSE POINT COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOSE & GARRISON SISKIN MEMORIAL FDN INC D/B/A SISKIN CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds AAA WOMEN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA FC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAUNCH INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR THE INNER CITY INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC ↗
- 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: Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Hamico Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · Benwood Foundation Inc · Hugh and Charlotte Maclellan Charitable Charitable Trust · United Way of Greater Chattanooga · Tucker Foundation · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · The Howard Fund
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 Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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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