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The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$169k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
27
Grants FY2025
54
Organizations funded FY2024
9%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$67,504
Organizations funded a year
2 to 58
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$174k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 9% of the organizations The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyHealthAnimalsOther
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 arriving27$169k19%
FY202454$365k9%
FY202356$447k14%
FY202258$498k88%
FY20215$28k100%
FY20195$316k100%
FY20182$1k0%
FY20172$1kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$748kArts & Culture$542kPhilanthropy$151kReligion$117kEnvironment$94kAnimals$61kFood & Nutrition$35kYouth Development$22kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The McCallie School$395,10050%
Stove Works$194,833422%
United Way of Greater Chattanooga$138,00040%
Hunter Museum of American Art$116,50041%
Creative Discovery Museum$107,50041%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$100,0001n/a
Winous Point Marsh Conservancy$80,00042%
Chattanoogahamilton County Public Education Fund$57,50011%
Smithsonian Institution$45,50040%
Randolph College Inc$41,72450%
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All grantees of The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The McCallie School$395,10050%
Stove Works$194,833422%
United Way of Greater Chattanooga$138,00040%
Hunter Museum of American Art$116,50041%
Creative Discovery Museum$107,50041%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$100,0001n/a
Winous Point Marsh Conservancy$80,00042%
Chattanoogahamilton County Public Education Fund$57,50011%
Smithsonian Institution$45,50040%
Randolph College Inc$41,72450%
Chatt Foundation$35,00030%
Charles H Coolidge National Medal of Honor Heritage Center Inc$33,00011%
Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc$32,00030%
Girls Preparatory School Inc$28,00040%
Delta Waterfowl Foundation$25,00030%
Enough Pie$20,00039%
University of the South$19,50040%
Metropolitan Ministries Inc$17,50040%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Chattanooga Inc$17,00040%
The Pop-Up Project$16,00041%
Artsbuild$10,50032%
A Step Ahead Foundation Chattanooga Inc$10,00040%
The Kenan-Flagler Business School Foundation$10,00010%
Virginia Episcopal School$8,5003n/a
Castleton Festival$5,50041%
Baylor School$5,00010%
Southern Environmental Law Center$4,50030%
Lula Lake Land Trust$3,50050%
St Margaret's School Foundation$3,50040%
Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc$3,50040%
Kavod$3,00030%
Cardigan Mountain School$3,00030%
Veriditas Inc$3,00030%
Reflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center$2,60040%
Beta Chapter of Pdt Inc$2,50010%
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church$2,5001n/a
Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy$2,00030%
Sculpture Fields at Montague Park$1,75030%
Lookout Mountain Conservancy$1,50030%
Women's Fund of Greater Chattanooga$1,00030%
Lowcountry Land Trust Inc$1,00010%
Children's Nutrition Program of Haiti Inc$1,00030%
Millwald Theatre Inc$1,00010%
Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc$75030%
Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc$75030%
Crc Recovery Foundation Inc$75030%
Center for Action and Contemplation$60030%
Riley Foundation$5001n/a
Splash$50010%
Ella Library$50010%
American Public Education Foundation$5001n/a
Crabtree Farms of Chattanooga Inc$30030%
Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated$30030%
Skyuka Hall$25010%
The Dawn Redwoods Charitable Trust$25010%
IBU Foundation$25010%
Hart Gallery Tn$2501n/a
Voices for a Safer Tennessee Coalit$2501n/a
Chattanooga Bach Choir Inc$15010%
Garden Club of Lookout Mountain$10010%
Unc Hussman School of Journalism and Media Foundation$10010%
Ussga Memorial Fund Inc$10010%
The Wassaic Project Inc$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($207k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe McCallie School: $395,100 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetStove Works: $194,833 over 4y, 22% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Chattanooga: $138,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHunter Museum of American Art: $116,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCreative Discovery Museum: $107,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWinous Point Marsh Conservancy: $80,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetChattanoogahamilton County Public Education Fund: $57,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $45,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRandolph College Inc: $41,724 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetChatt Foundation: $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCharles H Coolidge National Medal of Honor Heritage Center Inc: $33,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc: $32,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGirls Preparatory School Inc: $28,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEnough Pie: $20,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetUniversity of the South: $19,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Ministries Inc: $17,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Chattanooga Inc: $17,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Pop-Up Project: $16,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetArtsbuild: $10,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetA Step Ahead Foundation Chattanooga Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Kenan-Flagler Business School Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCastleton Festival: $5,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBaylor School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Environmental Law Center: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLula Lake Land Trust: $3,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSt Margaret's School Foundation: $3,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKavod: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCardigan Mountain School: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVeriditas Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetReflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center: $2,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBeta Chapter of Pdt Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChattanooga Girls Leadership Academy: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSculpture Fields at Montague Park: $1,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLookout Mountain Conservancy: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWomen's Fund of Greater Chattanooga: $1,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLowcountry Land Trust Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Nutrition Program of Haiti Inc: $1,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMillwald Theatre Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHighlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc: $750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHighlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCrc Recovery Foundation Inc: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Action and Contemplation: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSplash: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetElla Library: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCrabtree Farms of Chattanooga Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChoate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated: $300 over 3y, 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 56.

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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.

Benwood Foundation IncTN53.1× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation Inc

How much does The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation Inc give?
The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation Inc reported 27 grants totaling $168,504 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 58 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Arts & Culture (30%), Philanthropy (8%).
Who are The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The McCallie School ($395k), Stove Works ($195k), United Way of Greater Chattanooga ($138k).
Does The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Benwood Foundation Inc, Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation, The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc.
Where is The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation Inc based?
The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation Inc is based in TN.

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 84 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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