· Private foundation
Steve and Lisa Frost Family 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $576k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GENEROSITY TRUST | $150,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE OF CHATTANOOGA | $100,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $100,000 |
| LONE OAK COMMUNITY CENTER | $75,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY | $51,200 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SOUTHSIDE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT | $50,000 |
| HOUSE OF REFUGE | $40,000 |
| SIGNAL SOCIAL SERVICES | $30,000 |
| BRIDGE BUILDER COLLECTIVE | $30,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA | $20,000 |
| WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA CHATTANOOGA | $10,000 |
| GOSPEL CONVERSATIONS WITH SAM | $10,000 |
| LIONS CLUB | $10,000 |
| WDYN | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–24, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- CGCHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY5× · 2021–2025 · $226k · revenue +29%
- SYSOUTHSIDE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC5× · 2021–2025 · $157k · revenue +59% · 47% of their budget
- CAChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $155k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- GTGenerosity Trust (Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation dba Generosityone grant, 2021 · $160k
- UFUC Foundationone grant, 2022 · $50k
- CPChattanooga Preparatory Schoolone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling
Family promise of greater chattanooga's mission is to provide help for homeless families with children be housed and self-sufficient.
To provide for the physical, social, and spiritual needs of the homeless and needy.
To equip men to initiate and lead for christ in their homes, churches, communities and the marketplace.
Habitat for humanity of greater chattanooga (hfh-gc) brings together businesses, churches, and other community organizations in partnership with low income families to spark authentic transformation in our city through the construction of…
We provide accessible biblical counseling and training, walking alongside hurting people, which leads to Christ-centered hope, help, and healing, for the Triangle and beyond.
By creating a safe and structured two year residential program the Hope House of Tennessee will aim to equip and empower personal and educational growth economic self-sufficiency and a deeper understanding of Christs unconditional love.
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 show the love of christ to the needy in our area by providing their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
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.
To prepare students to lead and serve with distinction while representing christ and his kingdom in all areas of home, church, society and culture.
Children's Christian summer Bible camp, retreats, Bible lessons and release time
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for the Inner City Inc and the most unlike its peers is House of Refuge 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 18 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) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 6% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 48 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 CHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds Bethel Bible Village ↗
- Who funds LONE OAK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds WILD OPS ↗
- Who funds HAITI OUTREACH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER CH ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR THE INNER CITY INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC SCHOOL BIBLE STUDY COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds STANDING STONE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ABIDE WOMENS HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SIGNAL CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds Nonprofit Resource Center ↗
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 · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Jack and Charlotte Frost Family Foundation · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Benwood Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Frank Jb & Emma S Varallo Foundation · Schillhahn-Huskey Foundation · Hamico Inc
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 Steve and Lisa Frost Family 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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