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Schillhahn-Huskey Foundation at a glance

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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.

$654k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$158k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Education$1.3MHealth$1.1MArts & Culture$746kPhilanthropy$566kAnimals$334kEnvironment$303kRecreation & Sports$300kFood & Nutrition$243kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $332k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $308k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHI MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$157,500
NONPROFIT RESOURCE CENTER$100,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA$50,000
DISCOVERY LEARNERS ACADEMY$25,000
SIGNAL CENTERS INC$25,000
HAPPY SHOES PROJECT THE$25,000
CAMP WILDERNEST WILDLIFE$24,800
REFLECTION RIDING$20,000
SISKIN CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE$20,000
OPIE ACRES OPOSSUM AND WILDLIFE REHAB INC$20,000
CHATTANOOGA AUDUBON SOCIETY$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
CHATTANOOGA AREA FOOD BANK$15,000
SPLASH$15,000
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN COSERVANCY$12,500
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NONPROFIT RESOURCE CENTER: $105k → 12%NONPROFIT RESOURCE CENTER: $100k → 12%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $50k → 14%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $22k → 14%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $22k → 14%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $22k → 14%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $10k → 14%NET RESOURCE FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%THE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT: $30k → 12%HAPPY SHOES PROJECT THE: $25k → 12%HAPPY SHOES PROJECT THE: $10k → 12%TENNESSEE KIDS BELONG: $10k → 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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 37 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +39% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
41

Total granted

$4.1M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+39%

Still filing today

43%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthEducationEnvironmentOther
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
    5× · 2017–2025 · $158k · revenue +47%
  • NN
    NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE
    5× · 2017–2024 · $126k · revenue +107%
  • LM
    LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY
    6× · 2018–2025 · $109k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • TT
    TC THOMPSON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $150k
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT ERLANGER
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • MH
    MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
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 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
2
Chattanooga Regional Homeless Coalition Inc

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…

Community Improvement
3
Preserve Chattanooga Inc Formerly Cornerstones Inc

To protect the architectural heritage of chattanooga through historic preservation, advocacy, and education

Arts & Culture
4
Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley Inc

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.

Animals
5
Chattanooga Technology Council Inc

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

Community Improvement
6
Animal Care Trust

Saving animals.helping people. - to eliminate animal overpopulation, cruelty, and neglect. to create a culture of compassionate care, community engagement & advocacy for animals.

Animals
7
Chattacademy Community Schools Inc

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…

Education
8
Tennessee Clean Water Network

To identify, prevent, and remedy water pollution statewide through a network of allies and resources.

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9
Chattanoogahamilton County Public Education Fund

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.

Education
10
Tennessee Environmental Council

To educate and advocate for the conservation and improvement of tennessees environment, communities and public health

Environment
11
Two Bikes Chattanooga

Building opportunity, sustainability, and community through bicycles.

Education
12
Tennessee State Parks Conservancy

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

Environment
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 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.
04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 92 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
34/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BRIGHT SCHOOL CHATTANOOGA: $1,055,000 · OtherTHE BRIGHT SCHOOL CHATTANOOGAMEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $172,500 · OtherSISKIN HOSPITAL: $160,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $160,000 · OtherTC THOMPSON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $150,000 · Other+61 more: $1,898,943 · Other+61 moreSONGBIRDS FOUNDATION INC: $435,000 · Arts & CultureSONGBIRDS FOU…THE TIVOLI THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TIVOLI TH…Creative Discovery Museum: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCreative Disc…ARTSBUILD: $40,000 · Arts & CultureARTSBUILD+4 more: $55,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreThe Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc: $491,400 · PhilanthropyThe Commun…CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 · PhilanthropyCHATTANOOG…Nonprofit Resource Center: $205,000 · Human ServicesNORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $126,000 · Human ServicesTHE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT: $65,000 · Human Services+2 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesLOOKOUT MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY: $108,500 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $85,000 · EnvironmentREFLECTION RIDING ARBORETUM AND NATURE CENTER: $81,000 · EnvironmentChattanooga Audubon Society: $20,000 · EnvironmentChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc: $157,831 · Food & NutritionSODDY DAISY FOOD BANK INC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionSKYUKA HALL: $48,490 · EducationDISCOVERY LEARNERS' ACADEMY: $25,000 · EducationBRIGHT SCHOOL INC: $25,000 · EducationCHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $20,000 · EducationMOSE & GARRISON SISKIN MEMORIAL FDN INC D/B/A SISKIN CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $20,000 · Education
Other$3,596,443Arts & Culture$680,000Philanthropy$566,400Human Services$416,000Environment$294,500Food & Nutrition$187,831Education$138,490

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc: $491,400 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSONGBIRDS FOUNDATION INC: $435,000 over 7y, 25% of budgetNonprofit Resource Center: $205,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetMEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $172,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc: $157,831 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $126,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetLOOKOUT MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY: $108,500 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetCHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $100,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TIVOLI THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $85,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREFLECTION RIDING ARBORETUM AND NATURE CENTER: $81,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT: $65,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetChattanooga Hockey Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetHUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE INC: $50,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCreative Discovery Museum: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAEGIS LAW ENFORCEMENT OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA INC: $49,768 over 1y, 36% of budgetSKYUKA HALL: $48,490 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetARTSBUILD: $40,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSODDY DAISY FOOD BANK INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetWARRIOR FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetWELCOME HOME OF CHATTANOOGA: $30,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCAMP WILDERNEST WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $29,800 over 2y, 12% of budgetLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRIGHT SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSIGNAL CENTERS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTENNESSEE VALLEY RAILROAD MUSEUM INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMOSE & GARRISON SISKIN MEMORIAL FDN INC D/B/A SISKIN CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPLASH: $15,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetNET RESOURCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetCHARLES H COOLIDGE NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR HERITAGE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHATTANOOGA FC FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE OCOEE REGION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTENNESSEE KIDS BELONG INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetKelcurt Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCHATTANOOGA ROOM IN THE INN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBe The Change Youth Initiative: $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION CHATTANOOGA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE MOMENTUM NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetHabitat for Humanity: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDYNAMO STUDIOS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetODC NETWORK: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF EAST TENNESSEE: $4,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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 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 HUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE INC ↗
  • Who funds Creative Discovery Museum ↗
  • Who funds AEGIS LAW ENFORCEMENT OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA INC ↗
  • Who funds SKYUKA HALL ↗
  • Who funds ARTSBUILD ↗
  • Who funds SODDY DAISY FOOD BANK 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.

Benwood Foundation IncRobert F Stone Founda…Chattanooga Christian…The Community Foundat…Weldon F Osborne Foun…Hamico IncLyndhurst Foundation …The Howard FundRobert L & Kathrina H…The Maclellan Foundat…McKenzie Foundation D…Tucker Foundation
Benwood Foundation IncTN61.5× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Schillhahn-Huskey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Schillhahn-Huskey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%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
    23report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Schillhahn-Huskey Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Schillhahn-Huskey Foundation 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 92 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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