· Private foundation
The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $67k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STOVE WORKS | $67,504 |
| HUNTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $42,500 |
| WINOUS POINT MARSH CONSERVANCY | $24,000 |
| MCCALLIE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD | $4,000 |
| LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $2,500 |
| HOLY TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,500 |
| METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PLATEAU | $2,000 |
| A STEP AHEAD CHATTANOOGA | $2,000 |
| REFLECTION RIDING | $1,100 |
| ST MARGARETS SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CASTLETON FESTIVAL | $1,000 |
| CREATIVE DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +20% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 5 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- TMTHE MCCALLIE SCHOOL5× · 2019–2025 · $395k · revenue +22%
- SWSTOVE WORKS4× · 2022–2025 · $195k · revenue +32%
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA4× · 2019–2024 · $138k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLone grant, 2019 · $100k
- CCCHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2022 · $58k · revenue -64%
- CPCHATTANOOGA PREPARATORY SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $50k
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.
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.
To provide high-quality musical presentations and educational programs in the chattanooga area
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
To protect the architectural heritage of chattanooga through historic preservation, advocacy, and education
The kentucky college of art and design opens the door to a creative and productive life through an undergraduate education in the contemporary arts.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
The mission of chattacademy is to reimagine what public education can look like in chattanooga, tennessee. chattacademy's mission is to graduate bilingual, biliterate critical thinkers ready to make an impact on the world through top…
To serve through the power of dance.
Support of higher education through special projects of the university of tennessee at chattanooga
The mission of the charter school is to inspire all their children to the highest levels of academic achievement through a rigorous curriculum that integrates the wonders of the natural world.
The charlotte regional realtor (r) association (crra) is a trade association serving members in mecklenburg, iredell and haywood counties. at december 31, 2024, crra had 14,020 members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Artsbuild and the most unlike its peers is American Public Education Foundation. 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 34 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 84 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 THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STOVE WORKS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds Hunter Museum of American Art ↗
- Who funds Creative Discovery Museum ↗
- Who funds WINOUS POINT MARSH CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds CHATT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLES H COOLIDGE NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR HERITAGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
- Who funds Enough Pie ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC ↗
- Who funds THE POP-UP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ARTSBUILD ↗
- Who funds THE KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION CHATTANOOGA INC ↗
- Who funds CASTLETON FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds LULA LAKE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc ↗
- Who funds ST MARGARET'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Benwood Foundation Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Footprint Foundation Inc · McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Hamico Inc · The Howard Fund · The Chrysalis 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 Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation 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.
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 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.