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Schillhahn-Huskey Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $332k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $308k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHI MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $157,500 |
| NONPROFIT RESOURCE CENTER | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA | $50,000 |
| DISCOVERY LEARNERS ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| HAPPY SHOES PROJECT THE | $25,000 |
| SIGNAL CENTERS INC | $25,000 |
| CAMP WILDERNEST WILDLIFE | $24,800 |
| REFLECTION RIDING | $20,000 |
| OPIE ACRES OPOSSUM AND WILDLIFE REHAB INC | $20,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA AUDUBON SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| SISKIN CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA AREA FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| SPLASH | $15,000 |
| LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN COSERVANCY | $12,500 |
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, $416k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +56% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 12 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k 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
- CAChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc5× · 2017–2025 · $158k · revenue +47%
- NNNORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE5× · 2017–2024 · $126k · revenue +107%
- LMLOOKOUT MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY6× · 2018–2025 · $109k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- TTTC THOMPSON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $150k
- MHMEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $100k
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT ERLANGERone grant, 2024 · $100k
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.
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.
To advocate for people who are homless or near homeless, strategically planning for housing and services in the community, maximizing resources and collaboarating with community partners to implement housing and services within the…
To protect the architectural heritage of chattanooga through historic preservation, advocacy, and education
Humane society of the tennessee valley, inc. is dedicated to providing lifesaving programs and resources to enrich the lives of people and companion animals in the communities we serve.
Our mission is to connect chattanooga's technology sector to drive regional economic growth.
Saving animals.helping people. - to eliminate animal overpopulation, cruelty, and neglect. to create a culture of compassionate care, community engagement & advocacy for animals.
The mission of chattacademy is to reimagine what public education can look like in chattanooga, tennessee. chattacademy's mission is to graduate bilingual, biliterate critical thinkers ready to make an impact on the world through top…
To identify, prevent, and remedy water pollution statewide through a network of allies and resources.
To improve student achievement in public schools through highly effective teaching, strong leadership, and strategic partnerships so that children succeed in learning and in life.
To educate and advocate for the conservation and improvement of tennessees environment, communities and public health
Building opportunity, sustainability, and community through bicycles.
To support education, health and access programs that preserve, protect, and enhance Tennessee's natural areas and parks system.
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 The Happy Shoes Project. 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 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 92 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 The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc ↗
- Who funds SONGBIRDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Nonprofit Resource Center ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE TIVOLI THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds REFLECTION RIDING ARBORETUM AND NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Hockey Inc ↗
- Who funds Creative Discovery Museum ↗
- Who funds HUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds AEGIS LAW ENFORCEMENT OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA INC ↗
- Who funds SKYUKA HALL ↗
- Who funds ARTSBUILD ↗
- Who funds WELCOME HOME OF CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds SODDY DAISY FOOD BANK INC ↗
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: Benwood Foundation Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Hamico Inc · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · The Howard Fund · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation · Tucker 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 Schillhahn-Huskey 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.
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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