· Private foundation
The Hartley 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REFLECTION RIDING ARBORETUM AND NATURE CENTER | $10,000 |
| ALL SAINTS IN BIG SKY | $5,000 |
| TENNESSEE RIVER GORGE TRUST INC | $5,000 |
| THE PISGAH CONSERVANCY | $3,000 |
| SOUTHERN OFF ROAD BICYCLE ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| LULA LAKE LAND TRUST | $3,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA INC | $2,000 |
| GALLATIN RIVER TASK FORCE | $2,000 |
| SOUTHERN OFF-ROAD BICYCLE ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT | $2,000 |
| CHATT FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $1,000 |
| FIRST THINGS FIRST INC | $1,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD | $1,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA BOYS CHOIR | $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 (FY24–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% 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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 0 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- LLLULA LAKE LAND TRUST2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +28%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +35%
- CRCHATTANOOGA ROOM IN THE INN INC2× · 2024–2025 · $1k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- NPNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST TRANSATLANTIC LIMITEDone grant, 2024 · $7k
- G1GENESIS 12 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $1k
- LCLIFESPRING COMMUNITY HEALTHone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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.
A mission to create outdoor recreation opportunity, connect communities and trails, promote quality of life, and to protect our natural resources.
The organization's primary mission is conserving land where people and nature can thrive by creating green corridors linking existing public lands using conservation easments and outright purchase.
At Yosemite Rivers Alliance, we unite conservation and community to protect and restore the three rivers that ?ow through the Yosemite Regionthe Tuolumne, Stanislaus, and Merced.
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
Roane County Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
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.
Mission: to create economically diverse neighborhoods filled with financially empowered citizens and housing for all.vision: all chattanoogans can afford a safe place in a strong neighborhood to call home. belief: we believe the future of…
Vision: a healthy and resilient big thompson watershed benefitting fish, wildlife, and the people itserves through collaborative efforts for current and future generations. mission: working with others to take action that protects and…
To advocate for people who are homless or near homeless, strategically planning for housing and services in the community, maximizing resources and collaboarating with community partners to implement housing and services within the…
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust leads and inspires action to conserve and enhance the landscape of the Mountains to Sound Greenway, ensuring a long-term balance between people and nature.
To restore and protect clean water and healthy ecosystems for rivers in tennessee by employing scientific expertise and collaborative relationships to develop, promote, and support broad community stewardship and action.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chattanooga Room in the Inn Inc and the most unlike its peers is Big Sky Rotary 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 36 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 28 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 REFLECTION RIDING ARBORETUM AND NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE TENNESSEE RIVER GORGE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE PISGAH CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LULA LAKE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN OFF ROAD BICYCLE ASSOCIATION NC CHAPTER PISGAH AREA ↗
- Who funds CHATT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA BOYS CHOIR ↗
- Who funds SORBA CHATTANOOGA TN CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds Gallatin River Task Force ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST THINGS FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESPRING COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIES CHILDREN AND ADULTS INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA ROOM IN THE INN INC ↗
- Who funds LightWell Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Big Sky Rotary 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: Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Benwood Foundation Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Lillian L Colby Charitable Fdn Ia · The Chrysalis Foundation · Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Tucker Foundation · United Way of Greater Chattanooga
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 Hartley 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.