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The Chrysalis Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$217k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Food & Nutrition$642kHealth$387kReligion$350kHuman Services$257kHousing & Shelter$206kPhilanthropy$96kArts & Culture$86kEducation$65kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $200k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$882k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHATTANOOGA COMMUNITY KITCHEN$40,000
CHATTANOOGA AREA FOOD BANK$30,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$25,000
THE HUNGER COALITION$25,000
BLAINE COUNTY CHARITABLE FUND$25,000
TOCO HILLS COMMUNITY ALLIANCE$20,000
REFUGEE WOMEN'S NETWORK$20,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$15,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA$7,500
A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION CHATTANOOGA$5,000
ARTS BUILD$2,500
HUNTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$1,200
REFLECTION RIDING$250
HOUSE OF REFUGE$250
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $242k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $25k → 14%REFUGEE WOMEN'S NETWORK: $20k → 14%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $25k → 14%REFUGEE WOMEN'S NETWORK: $12k → 14%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $25k → 14%TOCO HILLS COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $20k → 14%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $20k → 14%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $20k → 14%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $20k → 14%CHILDREN'S NUTRITION PROGRAM OF HAITI: $25k → 12%CHILDREN'S NUTRITION PROGRAM OF HAITI: $10k → 12%CHILDRENS NUTRITION PROGRAM OF HAITI: $20k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 34 repeat orgs$141k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
18

Total granted

$2.1M
$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+21%

Still filing today

74%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther

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

  • CF
    CHATT FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $310k · revenue +62%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $270k · revenue +47%
  • NN
    NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $135k · revenue +107%

Funded once

  • PE
    PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +21%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +361%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Chattanooga Regional Homeless Coalition Inc

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…

Community Improvement
2
Chattanooga Design Studio

Chattanooga design studio seeks to elevate the quality of life for all citizens through guidance, collaboration, innovation, and education that promotes livable, accessible, walkable, and humane urban design.

Community Improvement
3
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Chattanooga Area Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
4
Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise

Mission: to create economically diverse neighborhoods filled with financially empowered citizens and housing for all.vision: all chattanoogans can afford a safe place in a strong neighborhood to call home. belief: we believe the future of…

Housing & Shelter
5
Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
6
Chattahoochee Hospice Inc

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.

Human Services
7
Chattanooga Rescue Mission

To show the love of christ to the needy in our area by providing their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.

Housing & Shelter
8
Family Promise of Greater Chattanooga Inc

Family promise of greater chattanooga's mission is to provide help for homeless families with children be housed and self-sufficient.

Human Services
9
The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc

Together with our community and partners, we transform generosity into lasting change towards a prosperous and just chattanooga where all can thrive and achieve their full potential.

Philanthropy
10
Invest Chattanooga

Invest chattanooga uses flexible, low-cost capital and strategic public-private partnerships to produce financially sustainable, mixed-income housing with deep permanent affordability that the market alone cannot deliver.

Housing & Shelter
11
Chattanooga Outreach

To provide for the physical, social, and spiritual needs of the homeless and needy.

Education
12
Charleston Habitat for Humanity Inc

Charleston Habitat for Humanitys (CHFH) vision is a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Seeking to put God's love into action, Charleston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope. By…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chattanooga Room in the Inn 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 38 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%0%<5yr18%8%5–10yr21%8%10–20yr15%27%20–35yr9%32%35–55yr10%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%0%<5yr18%8%5–10yr21%24%10–20yr15%16%20–35yr9%31%35–55yr10%21%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/41
the rest of the field
19%
1,575/8,079

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.

04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 55 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/39
Grantees still filing
31/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHATT FOUNDATION — $310,000 · OtherCHATT FOUNDATIONMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC — $270,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INCCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT ERLANGER — $225,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT ERLANGERCHAMBLISS CHILDRENS HOME — $110,000 · OtherCHAMBLISS CHILDRENS HOMEHabitat for Humanity — $70,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC — $47,000 · Other+32 more — $344,450 · Other+32 moreNORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $135,000 · Human ServicesNORTHSIDE NE…CHILDREN'S NUTRITION PROGRAM OF HAITI INC — $55,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S N…REFUGEE WOMENS NETWORK INC — $32,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEE WOME…TOCO HILLS COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesTOCO HILLS C…BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC — $128,000 · Food & NutritionBLAINE COUN…Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc — $95,000 · Food & NutritionChattanooga…CRABTREE FARMS OF CHATTANOOGA INC — $95,050 · PhilanthropyBoston Foundation Inc — $20,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA — $20,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $2,000 · PhilanthropyA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION CHATTANOOGA INC — $115,000 · HealthARTSBUILD — $72,500 · Arts & CultureHunter Museum of American Art — $5,400 · Arts & CultureCHATTANOOGA SYMPHONY & OPERA ASSOCIATION — $4,500 · Arts & CulturePRESERVE CHATTANOOGA INC FORMERLY CORNERSTONES INC — $3,100 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $250 · Arts & CultureBLAINE COUNTY CHARITABLE FUND INC — $40,000 · Public Benefit
Other$1,376,450Human Services$242,000Food & Nutrition$223,000Philanthropy$137,050Health$115,000Arts & Culture$85,750Public Benefit$40,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHATT FOUNDATION — $310,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC — $270,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetNORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $135,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC — $128,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION CHATTANOOGA INC — $115,000 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetCRABTREE FARMS OF CHATTANOOGA INC — $95,050 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc — $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetARTSBUILD — $72,500 over 9y, 6.4% of budgetHabitat for Humanity — $70,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetCHILDREN'S NUTRITION PROGRAM OF HAITI INC — $55,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC — $47,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY CHARITABLE FUND INC — $40,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetREFUGEE WOMENS NETWORK INC — $32,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPIONEER MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $25,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHOMES & HAVENS — $22,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR MINDFUL LIVING — $19,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARYELLEN LOCHER FOUNDATION INC — $10,700 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetST MARYS SEWANEE A CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL — $7,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHunter Museum of American Art — $5,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHATTANOOGA ENDEAVORS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY DINING ROOM INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHAITI OUTREACH INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHATTANOOGA SYMPHONY & OPERA ASSOCIATION — $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSE OF REFUGE INC — $3,750 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPRESERVE CHATTANOOGA INC FORMERLY CORNERSTONES INC — $3,100 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSun Valley Community School Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLULA LAKE LAND TRUST — $2,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetREFLECTION RIDING ARBORETUM AND NATURE CENTER — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHATTANOOGA ROOM IN THE INN INC — $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHATTANOOGA WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL ARTISTS — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Chattanooga Christian…Benwood Foundation IncWeldon F Osborne Foun…Robert F Stone Founda…Hamico IncLyndhurst Foundation …Robert L & Kathrina H…The Community Foundat…The Hacker and Kitty …Hazel Montague Hutche…McKenzie Foundation D…The Maclellan Foundat…
Chattanooga Christian Community FoundationTN43.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Benwood Foundation Inc · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · Hamico Inc · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation Inc · Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation · McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation 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 The Chrysalis 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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