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The Daniel Ashley and Irene Houston Jewell Memorial Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$350k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
41
Grants FY2025
45
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$48,000
Organizations funded a year
37 to 45
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$4.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The Daniel Ashley and Irene Houston Jewell Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving41$350k15%
FY202445$453k22%
FY202340$372k40%
FY202237$318k19%
FY202138$297kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$675kHuman Services$261kRecreation & Sports$240kCrime & Legal$158kArts & Culture$96kFood & Nutrition$95kReligion$71kScience & Tech$48kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends of the Chickamauga Public Library$105,0005n/a
Chickamauga Recreation Association$85,000513%
The Cottage Sexual Assault Center & Childrens Advocacy Center Inc$75,00053%
Children's Advocacy Center of the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit$62,50044%
Bethel Bible Village$50,00050%
Back Pack Blessings Inc$50,00056%
Georgia Institute of Technology$48,0005n/a
Girls Preparatory School Inc$25,00050%
Houston Museum of Decorative Arts$25,00054%
First Things First Inc$22,50050%
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All grantees of The Daniel Ashley and Irene Houston Jewell Memorial Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends of the Chickamauga Public Library$105,0005n/a
Chickamauga Recreation Association$85,000513%
The Cottage Sexual Assault Center & Childrens Advocacy Center Inc$75,00053%
Children's Advocacy Center of the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit$62,50044%
Bethel Bible Village$50,00050%
Back Pack Blessings Inc$50,00056%
Georgia Institute of Technology$48,0005n/a
Girls Preparatory School Inc$25,00050%
Houston Museum of Decorative Arts$25,00054%
First Things First Inc$22,50050%
Georgia Tech Foundation Inc$20,00020%
The Trust for Public Land$20,00020%
Charles H Coolidge National Medal of Honor Heritage Center Inc$15,00021%
Walker County Department of Education$15,0002n/a
Friends of the Gordon-Lee Mansion$13,0003n/a
Chattanooga Boys Choir$11,50032%
Restore 6-34 Inc$10,00022%
Signal Centers Inc$10,00020%
Young Harris College$8,00020%
The McCallie School$6,00020%
Lift Youth Center Inc$5,00011%
Dilworth Center for Chemical Dependency$5,00010%
Georgia FFA Foundation Inc$5,00011%
Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc$5,00010%
Lipford Foundation Inc$5,0001n/a
Berry College Inc$4,00010%
Chris McDaniel Ministries Inc$2,50011%
Blood Assurance Inc$2,00010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Daniel Ashley and Irene Houston Jewell Memorial Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChickamauga Recreation Association: $85,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetThe Cottage Sexual Assault Center & Childrens Advocacy Center Inc: $75,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetChildren's Advocacy Center of the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit: $62,500 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetBethel Bible Village: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBack Pack Blessings Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetGirls Preparatory School Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Museum of Decorative Arts: $25,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetFirst Things First Inc: $22,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGeorgia Tech Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trust for Public Land: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCharles H Coolidge National Medal of Honor Heritage Center Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetChattanooga Boys Choir: $11,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetRestore 6-34 Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSignal Centers Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Harris College: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe McCallie School: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLift Youth Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDilworth Center for Chemical Dependency: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGeorgia FFA Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBerry College Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChris McDaniel Ministries Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBlood Assurance Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Chattanooga Christian Community FoundationTN27.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Frank P Pierce Foundation Inc · Hamico Inc · George R Johnson Family Foundation · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · United Way of Greater Chattanooga · Benwood Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Daniel Ashley and Irene Houston Jewell Memorial Foundation

How much does The Daniel Ashley and Irene Houston Jewell Memorial Foundation give?
The Daniel Ashley and Irene Houston Jewell Memorial Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $350,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 45 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does The Daniel Ashley and Irene Houston Jewell Memorial Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Human Services (15%), Recreation & Sports (13%).
Who are The Daniel Ashley and Irene Houston Jewell Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Friends of the Chickamauga Public Library ($105k), Chickamauga Recreation Association ($85k), The Cottage Sexual Assault Center & Childrens Advocacy Center Inc ($75k).
Does The Daniel Ashley and Irene Houston Jewell Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Daniel Ashley and Irene Houston Jewell Memorial Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Daniel Ashley and Irene Houston Jewell Memorial Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation, The Maclellan Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc.
Where is The Daniel Ashley and Irene Houston Jewell Memorial Foundation based?
The Daniel Ashley and Irene Houston Jewell Memorial Foundation is based in GA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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