· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| LIONS CLUB | $10,000 |
| WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA CHATTANOOGA | $10,000 |
| GOSPEL CONVERSATIONS WITH SAM | $10,000 |
| WDYN | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- HOHAITI OUTREACH MINISTRIESone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -31%
- RCResurrection Chattanoogaone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 HAITI OUTREACH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WILD OPS ↗
- 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 Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds SIGNAL CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds ABIDE WOMENS HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Nonprofit Resource Center ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Steve and Lisa Frost Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steve and Lisa Frost Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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