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Rossville Memorial Center

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$46k
Granted FY2026still arriving
13
Grants FY2026still arriving
4
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$89kFood & Nutrition$69kPublic Benefit$44kAnimals$44kYouth Development$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kArts & Culture$4kReligion$3k
02FY2026 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$598k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES$7,000
FAIRYLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$6,000
CHATTANOOGA COMMUNITY KITCHEN$5,000
CHATTANOOGA FOOD BANK$5,000
MCKAMEY ANIMAL HOSPITAL$4,000
SOUTHSIDE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT$3,500
DADE ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM$3,000
CRABTREE FARMS$3,000
WELCOME HOME CHATTANOOGA$2,500
MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY$2,500
UNIVERSITY CHARTER SCHOOL$2,000
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN SCHOOL$1,000
WEST BROW FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 28% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%UNIVERSITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $6k → 31%THAYER BAPTIST CHURCH: $3k → 21%WELCOME HOME CHATTANOOGA: $3k → 12%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 24%UNIVERSITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $3k → 31%WELCOME HOME CHATTANOOGA: $3k → 12%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $11k → 15%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $7k → 15%FAIRYLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $15k → 12%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $7k → 15%FAIRYLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $6k → 12%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $7k → 15%FAIRYLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $6k → 12%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $7k → 15%FAIRYLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $5k → 12%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $7k → 15%FAIRYLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $5k → 12%DADE ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM: $5k → 11%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $4k → 15%FAIRYLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $5k → 12%DADE ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM: $3k → 11%BARKING LEGS THEATER: $4k → 12%DADE ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM: $3k → 11%FAIRYLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $4k → 12%DADE ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM: $3k → 11%DADE ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM: $3k → 11%CHATTANOOGA FOOD BANK: $8k → 12%CHATTANOOGA COMMUNITY KITCHEN: $8k → 12%CHATTANOOGA FOOD BANK: $6k → 12%CHATTANOOGA COMMUNITY KITCHEN: $6k → 12%CHATTANOOGA FOOD BANK: $6k → 12%CHATTANOOGA COMMUNITY KITCHEN: $6k → 12%CHATTANOOGA COMMUNITY KITCHEN: $5k → 12%CHATTANOOGA FOOD BANK: $5k → 12%CHATTANOOGA FOOD BANK: $5k → 12%CHATTANOOGA COMMUNITY KITCHEN: $5k → 12%CHATTANOOGA COMMUNITY KITCHEN: $5k → 12%CHATTANOOGA FOOD BANK: $5k → 12%CHATTANOOGA FOOD BANK: $3k → 12%CRABTREE FARMS: $3k → 12%CRABTREE FARMS: $3k → 12%MCKAMEY ANIMAL HOSPITAL: $6k → 12%MCKAMEY ANIMAL HOSPITAL: $4k → 12%MCKAMEY ANIMAL HOSPITAL: $4k → 12%MCKAMEY ANIMAL HOSPITAL: $4k → 12%MCKAMEY ANIMAL HOSPITAL: $3k → 12%MCKAMEY ANIMAL HOSPITAL: $3k → 12%MCKAMEY ANIMAL HOSPITAL: $3k → 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.
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.
$322k · 17 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2026, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
8

Total granted

$322k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+10%

Still filing today

35%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Food & NutritionAnimalsEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CA
    Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc
    7× · 2019–2026 · $38k · revenue +55%
  • CF
    CHATT FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2026 · $37k · revenue +68%
  • UC
    University Charter School
    5× · 2020–2026 · $15k · revenue +176%

Funded once

  • BL
    BARKING LEGS THEATER
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • TB
    THAYER BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
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
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $50,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIESFAIRYLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $46,000 · OtherFAIRYLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCHATT FOUNDATION: $36,500 · OtherCHATT FOUNDATIONAPSU FOUNDATION: $29,400 · OtherAPSU FOUNDATIONMCKAMEY ANIMAL HOSPITAL: $27,000 · OtherMCKAMEY ANIMAL HOSPITALDADE ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM: $22,000 · OtherDADE ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM+14 more: $53,200 · Other+14 moreChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc: $37,500 · Food & NutritionChattanooga …University Charter School: $15,000 · EducationSOUTHSIDE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC: $10,500 · Youth DevelopmentCRABTREE FARMS OF CHATTANOOGA INC: $8,000 · PhilanthropyHUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE INC: $2,000 · Animals
Other$264,100Food & Nutrition$37,500Education$15,000Youth Development$10,500Philanthropy$8,000Animals$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc: $37,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHATT FOUNDATION: $36,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity Charter School: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHSIDE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC: $10,500 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetCRABTREE FARMS OF CHATTANOOGA INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL INCORPORATED BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHATT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University Charter School ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHSIDE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds CRABTREE FARMS OF CHATTANOOGA INC ↗
  • Who funds CHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL INCORPORATED BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE INC ↗

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.

United Way of Greater…Robert F Stone Founda…Benwood Foundation IncThe Community Foundat…Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way of Greater ChattanoogaTN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Chattanooga · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · Benwood Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Rossville Memorial Center funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rossville Memorial Center. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
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    How do I get to Rossville Memorial Center?

    Find your warmest path to Rossville Memorial Center 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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