Tennessee · Public charity
The Chairman Club
Provide grants to youth sports organizations, youth arts, and culture clubs, youth education groups, youth health care associations and more
- $125k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $22,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 11
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations The Chairman Club funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $125k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $135k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $125k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of Tennessee's Babies With Special Needs | $32,500 | 2 | 7% |
| Fostering Hope Tn Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Knoxville Inner City Kids Outr | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Isaiah 117 House | $22,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Wesley House Community Center Co | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| East Tennessee Technology Access Center Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Freedom Village of Hope | $20,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Hoof & Harness Experiential Learning Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Fraternal Order of Police 2 Volunteer Lodge | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Camp Koinonia Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 6% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Chairman Club supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: East Tennessee Foundation · Akima Club Inc · United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc · Gene & Florence Monday Foundation Inc · Lawson Family Foundation · Variety of Eastern Tennessee · Thompson Charitable Foundation · The Melrose Foundation · Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee · The Clayton Homes Foundation · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · Smith Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Chairman Club
- How much does The Chairman Club give?
- The Chairman Club reported 8 grants totaling $125,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 11 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does The Chairman Club fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (38%), Human Services (17%), Education (15%).
- Who are The Chairman Club's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Friends of Tennessee's Babies With Special Needs ($33k), Fostering Hope Tn Inc ($30k), Knoxville Inner City Kids Outr ($25k).
- Does The Chairman Club fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Chairman Club?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Tennessee Foundation, Akima Club Inc, United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc.
- Where is The Chairman Club based?
- The Chairman Club is based in TN.
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