· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $247k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHICKAMAUGA CITY SCHOOLS | $48,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHICKAMAUGA PUBLIC LIBRARY | $20,000 |
| GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $16,000 |
| THE COTTAGE | $15,000 |
| LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $15,000 |
| LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT FELONY DRUG COURT | $15,000 |
| GORDON LEE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $13,500 |
| GORDON LEE HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT | $12,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $12,000 |
| CHICKAMAUGA ACTIVE LIVING CENTER | $10,000 |
| BACKPACK BLESSINGS | $10,000 |
| BETHEL BIBLE VILLAGE | $10,000 |
| CHICKAMAUGA RECREATION ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- GPGIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +80%
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Bethel Bible Village ↗
- Who funds BACK PACK BLESSINGS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON MUSEUM OF DECORATIVE ARTS ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Daniel Ashley and Irene Houston Jewell Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Daniel Ashley and Irene Houston Jewell Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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