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The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$169k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$68k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $67k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$174k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH$1,000
THE POP UP PROJECT$1,000
CASTLETON FESTIVAL$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%KAVOD: $1k → 12%KAVOD: $1k → 12%KAVOD: $1k → 12%CHILDRENS NUTRITION PROGRAM OF HAITI: $500 → 12%CHILDRENS NUTRITION PROGRAM OF HAITI: $250 → 12%CHILDRENS NUTRITION PROGRAM OF HAITI: $250 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
ND
NY
WY
OH
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 53 repeat orgs$278k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
23

Total granted

$1.5M
$274k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+2%

Still filing today

74%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TM
    THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL
    5× · 2019–2025 · $395k · revenue +22%
  • SW
    STOVE WORKS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $195k · revenue +32%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA
    4× · 2019–2024 · $138k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • CC
    CHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $58k · revenue -64%
  • CP
    CHATTANOOGA PREPARATORY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Chattanooga Design Studio

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.

Community Improvement
2
Chattanooga Symphony & Opera Association

To provide high-quality musical presentations and educational programs in the chattanooga area

Arts & Culture
3
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment
4
The Charleston Museum

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Preserve Chattanooga Inc Formerly Cornerstones Inc

To protect the architectural heritage of chattanooga through historic preservation, advocacy, and education

Arts & Culture
6
Kentucky College of Art Design

The kentucky college of art and design opens the door to a creative and productive life through an undergraduate education in the contemporary arts.

Education
7
Nashville Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Chattacademy Community Schools Inc

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…

Education
9
The Chattanooga Ballet

To serve through the power of dance.

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10
University of Chattanooga Foundation Inc

Support of higher education through special projects of the university of tennessee at chattanooga

Education
11
Chattahoochee Hills Charter School Inc

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.

Education
12
Charlotte Regional Realtor Association Inc

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Artsbuild; 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.
04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 84 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
40/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL: $395,100 · EducationTHE MCCALLIE SCHOOLCHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $57,500 · EducationCHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC E…RANDOLPH COLLEGE INC: $41,724 · EducationRANDOLPH COLLEGE INCGIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $28,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $19,500 · Education+11 more: $30,650 · Education+11 moreSTOVE WORKS: $194,833 · Arts & CultureSTOVE WORKSHunter Museum of American Art: $116,500 · Arts & CultureHunter Museum of American ArtCreative Discovery Museum: $107,500 · Arts & CultureCreative Discovery MuseumSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $45,500 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION+9 more: $36,100 · Arts & Culture+9 moreUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA…CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $95,700 · OtherCHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERDCHATTANOOGA PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $50,000 · OtherCHATTANOOGA PREPARATORY SCHO…CHATT FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherCHATT FOUNDATIONCHARLES H COOLIDGE NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR HERITAGE CENTER INC: $33,000 · OtherCHARLES H COOLIDGE NATIONAL …Enough Pie: $20,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $17,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC: $17,000 · Other+27 more: $85,200 · Other+27 moreUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA: $138,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMU…+6 more: $5,900 · PhilanthropyWINOUS POINT MARSH CONSERVANCY: $80,000 · Environment+5 more: $5,950 · EnvironmentAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc: $32,000 · AnimalsDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $25,000 · AnimalsA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION CHATTANOOGA INC: $10,000 · HealthHighlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc: $750 · HealthCRC RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC: $750 · HealthRILEY FOUNDATION: $500 · Health
Education$572,474Arts & Culture$500,433Other$453,400Philanthropy$153,900Environment$85,950Animals$57,000Health$12,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $10,000 over 4y, 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 budgetCHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPLASH: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetELLA LIBRARY: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 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 A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION CHATTANOOGA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
  • Who funds CASTLETON FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds BAYLOR SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LULA LAKE LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds ST MARGARET'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau 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.

Benwood Foundation IncRobert F Stone Founda…The Community Foundat…Weldon F Osborne Foun…Lyndhurst Foundation …Chattanooga Christian…Footprint Foundation …McKenzie Foundation D…The Maclellan Foundat…Hamico IncThe Howard FundThe Chrysalis Foundat…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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