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The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc
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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 810 grants below total $25,778,536 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $27,451,355 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,672,819 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k379 grants · $1.2M
- $10k–50k333 grants · $6.9M
- $50k–250k79 grants · $7.5M
- $250k+19 grants · $10M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| General Conference of Seventh Day Adventists | $1,100,000 |
| North Atlantic Salmon Fund | $951,303 |
| YMCA of Metropolitan Chattanooga | $803,554 |
| Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County | $700,000 |
| YMCA of Metropolitan Chattanooga | $650,000 |
| Sweet Briar Institute | $600,000 |
| Skyuka Hall | $554,000 |
| United Way of Greater Chattanooga | $527,102 |
| Sweet Briar Institute | $502,500 |
| Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia Inc | $500,000 |
| St Peter's Episcopal School | $500,000 |
| Southern Adventist University | $500,000 |
| The Layman Foundation Inc co Ruhling and Associates | $400,000 |
| Collegedale Academy | $400,000 |
| Gulf States Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists | $350,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
360 repeat relationships — 258 still active in FY2024, 102 since wound down; 74 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA5× · 2020–2024 · $4.7M · revenue +41%
- SBSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE5× · 2020–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +17%
- SHSKYUKA HALL5× · 2020–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +174% · 50% of their budget
Funded once
- MGMountain Goat Trail Alliance Incone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -41% · 38% of their budget
- GCGENERAL CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTSone grant, 2021 · $400k
- VFVALLEY FEST INCone grant, 2021 · $400k · revenue -80%
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.
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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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of East Tennessee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cumberland Center for Justice and Peace. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
559 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 559 of the 724 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SKYUKA HALL ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE ENTERPRISE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND AND BRADLEY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Creative Discovery Museum ↗
- Who funds CHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH ATLANTIC SALMON FUND ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds MCKEE PARKS TRAILS AND GREENWAYS ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds COLLEGEDALE TOMORROW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LAYMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHATT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S NUTRITION PROGRAM OF HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds MARK MAKING ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA AREA INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
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: Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · Benwood Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Chattanooga · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Hamico Inc · Footprint Foundation Inc · Hugh and Charlotte Maclellan Charitable Charitable Trust · McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie 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 Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.