· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of THE DANIEL ASHLEY AND IRENE HOUSTON JEWELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $247k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHICKAMAUGA CITY SCHOOLS | $48,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHICKAMAUGA PUBLIC LIBRARY | $20,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $20,000 |
| GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $16,000 |
| LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT FELONY DRUG COURT | $15,000 |
| THE COTTAGE | $15,000 |
| LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $15,000 |
| GORDON LEE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $13,500 |
| GORDON LEE HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT | $12,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $12,000 |
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $10,000 |
| CHICKAMAUGA ACTIVE LIVING CENTER | $10,000 |
| BETHEL BIBLE VILLAGE | $10,000 |
| CHICKAMAUGA RECREATION ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| BACKPACK BLESSINGS | $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 (FY21–25, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +17% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- TCTHE COTTAGE SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER & CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +24%
- BBBethel Bible Village5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +17%
- HMHOUSTON MUSEUM OF DECORATIVE ARTS5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- LMLOOKOUT MOUNTAIN JUDICAL CIRCUITone grant, 2023 · $15k
- GLGORDON LEE HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $13k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA FRIENDS OF THE COLLEGE OF COMMUNITY HEALTH SCIENCESone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
To prepare students to lead and serve with distinction while representing christ and his kingdom in all areas of home, church, society and culture.
Charlotte christian school is a christ-centered, college preparatory school, equipping and developing students to effectively integrate biblical truth and learning nto their daily lives and to impact the culture for christ.
Empowering learners to achieve excellence by linking knowledge to practice.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
Girls inc. of chattanooga inspires and equips girls to be strong, smart and bold leaders within their families, their communities and society.
We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.
Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…
SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
To operate a private school for pre-kindergarten through grade 12 in Wilmington, NC
Provide faith based education with an emphasis on college preparation.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Restore 6-34 Inc. 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 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 77 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 CHICKAMAUGA RECREATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE COTTAGE SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER & CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT ↗
- Who funds BACK PACK BLESSINGS INC ↗
- Who funds Bethel Bible Village ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON MUSEUM OF DECORATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds GIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST THINGS FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds CHARLES H COOLIDGE NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR HERITAGE CENTER INC ↗
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: 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
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 Daniel Ashley and Irene Houston Jewell Memorial 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.
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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