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The Chairman Club
Provide grants to youth sports organizations, youth arts, and culture clubs, youth education groups, youth health care associations and more
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $135,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $140,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOOF & HARNESS EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING INC | $20,000 |
| FREEDOM VILLAGE OF HOPE | $20,000 |
| EAST TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGY ACCESS CTR INC | $20,000 |
| STREET HOPE TN | $15,000 |
| THE CAMP KOINONIA FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| HELPING MAMAS INC | $13,000 |
| UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC (NICU) | $12,000 |
| FORT SANDERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE MUSE KNOXVILLE | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
Family support service,Emergency assist
Provides support services to individuals with disabilities in the form of outreach, training education, consultants and referrals requarding use of assistive technologies.
Tennessee Kids Belong dramatically improves the experiences and outcomes for children in foster care.
East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…
The mission of My Fathers House Nashville (MFHN) is to provide shelter, parenting education, recovery information and life skills for fathers transitioning out of institutional settings or homelessness.
The mission of the organization is to provide a powerful voice for abused and neglected children by advocating for each child, within the court's jurisdiction, in order to ensure safety, permancy and an opportunity to thrive.
Tennessee Youth Court (TYC) is a teen-driven juvenile delinquency prevention/intervention diversion program based on restorative justice.
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.
The mission of easterseals tennessee is to make profound positive differences in the lives of people with disabilities as they learn, work, and play in their communities.
Advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holston Home for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hoof & Harness Experiential Learning Inc. 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 20 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 EAST TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGY ACCESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOOF & HARNESS EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM VILLAGE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds THE CAMP KOINONIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STREET HOPE TN ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTERING HOPE TN INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING MAMAS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE DREAM CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds Covenant Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds WESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER CO ↗
- Who funds JOY OF MUSIC YOUTH MUSIC SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE INNER CITY KIDS OUTR ↗
- Who funds Yoke Youth Ministries ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TENNESSEE'S BABIES WITH SPECIAL NEEDS ↗
- Who funds THE MUSE KNOXVILLE ↗
- Who funds PEER ACADEMY ↗
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: 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
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 Chairman Club 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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