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The Bbc Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CADAS | $25,000 |
| ARTSBUILD | $10,000 |
| ELIZABETH COLLIER FARMER ATHLETIC AWARD (GPS) | $5,000 |
| ORANGE GROVE CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
| ROOM IN THE INN | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA COMMUNITY KITCHEN | $4,000 |
| ALBERTVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FDN | $4,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF MARSHALL COUNTY | $3,000 |
| ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN | $3,000 |
| SECOND CHANCE SHELTER | $2,000 |
| WATERFRONT CAPITAL CAMPAIGN NAKANAWA | $2,000 |
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND CHATTANOOGA | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
27 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- AARTSBUILD7× · 2018–2024 · $95k · revenue +217%
- SCSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC6× · 2018–2023 · $32k · revenue ×15
- TOTHE ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC7× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- EMELISABETH MITCHELL CHARITABLE TRUSTone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -36% · 51% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $3k
- CAChattanooga Area Food Bank Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +50%
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.
The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
The organization pledges to provide quality programs, service, and technology to meet the unique physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the terminally ill and their families, and to educate the community about end of life issues.
Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
Uniting people and resources in building a stronger, healthier community
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
We guide and encourage donors who are motivated toward kingdom-building generosity. our mission is carried out through four primary initiatives: providing donor-advised funds, inspiring and encouraging generosity within families along the…
The mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…
Serving the chrisitan community in the strengthening of local churches, promoting responsible christian character and maturity through educational programs, and preparing graduates for vocational and volunteer church-related service.
Dunwoody college changes lives by building opportunities for graduates to have successful careers, to develop into leaders and entrepreneurs, and to engage in "the better performance of life's duties." quote is from the last will and…
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chatt Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Elisabeth Mitchell Charitable Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 36 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 ARTSBUILD ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHATT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELISABETH MITCHELL CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds ALBERTVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF MARSHALL COUNTY ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds PATH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE SHELTER ↗
- Who funds BERRY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds Rhodes College ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KATE'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA BOYS CHOIR ↗
- Who funds CHRIS 180 INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
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 · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Bbc 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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