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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.

$46k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Environment$36kReligion$17kHousing & Shelter$8kPhilanthropy$7kRecreation & Sports$5kHealth$4kInternational$3kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
LULA LAKE LAND TRUST$3,000
SOUTHERN OFF ROAD BICYCLE ASSOCIATION$3,000
GALLATIN RIVER TASK FORCE$2,000
EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT$2,000
SOUTHERN OFF-ROAD BICYCLE ASSOCIATION$2,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA INC$2,000
CHATT FOUNDATION$2,000
FIRST THINGS FIRST INC$1,000
CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD$1,000
CHATTANOOGA BOYS CHOIR$1,000
MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%BIG SKY ROTARY FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $500 → 14%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

MT
IL
NY
IA
VA
TN
NC
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$49k · 12 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
9

Total granted

$49k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

83%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
EnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • LL
    LULA LAKE LAND TRUST
    2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +28%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +35%
  • CR
    CHATTANOOGA ROOM IN THE INN INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $1k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • NP
    NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST TRANSATLANTIC LIMITED
    one grant, 2024 · $7k
  • PF
    PARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIES CHILDREN AND ADULTS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +8%
  • WW
    WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT LONG TERM SUPPORT TR
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
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
Georgia Mountain Trails Partnership Inc

A mission to create outdoor recreation opportunity, connect communities and trails, promote quality of life, and to protect our natural resources.

Recreation & Sports
2
Tenngreen Land Conservancy

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.

Recreation & Sports
3
Tuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance

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.

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4
The Montana Land Reliance

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.

Environment
5
Roane County Medical Center

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.

Health
6
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

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

Environment
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
Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise

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…

Housing & Shelter
9
Big Thompson Watershed Coalition

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…

Environment
10
Chattanooga Regional Homeless Coalition Inc

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…

Community Improvement
11
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust

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.

Environment
12
Harpeth Conservancy

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.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chattanooga Room in the Inn Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 28 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
6/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE TENNESSEE RIVER GORGE TRUST INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE TENNESSEE RIVER GORGE TRUST INCREFLECTION RIDING ARBORETUM AND NATURE CENTER: $10,000 · EnvironmentREFLECTION RIDING ARBORETUM AND NATURE C…THE PISGAH CONSERVANCY: $8,000 · EnvironmentTHE PISGAH CONSERVANCYGallatin River Task Force: $2,000 · EnvironmentGallatin River Task ForceALL SAINTS IN BIG SKY: $8,000 · OtherALL SAINTS IN BIG SKYNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST TRANSATLANTIC LIMITED: $7,000 · OtherNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST TRANSATLAN…CHATT FOUNDATION: $3,000 · OtherCHATT FOUNDATIONCHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $2,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERDMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $1,500 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT LONG TERM SUPPORT TR: $1,000 · OtherGENESIS 12 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHURCH: $1,000 · OtherCHATTANOOGA BOYS CHOIR: $2,000 · OtherCHATTANOOGA BOYS CHOIRPARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIES CHILDREN AND ADULTS INC: $1,000 · OtherCHATTANOOGA ROOM IN THE INN INC: $1,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,000 · Other+2 more: $1,000 · OtherEPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $3,000 · Human ServicesEPISCOPAL…FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PR…NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $500 · Human ServicesNORTHSIDE…Big Sky Rotary Foundation: $500 · Human ServicesBig Sky R…LULA LAKE LAND TRUST: $6,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHERN OFF ROAD BICYCLE ASSOCIATION NC CHAPTER PISGAH AREA: $3,000 · Recreation & SportsSORBA CHATTANOOGA TN CHAPTER: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $3,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationFIRST THINGS FIRST INC: $1,500 · HealthLIFESPRING COMMUNITY HEALTH: $1,000 · Health
Environment$30,000Other$29,500Human Services$7,000Philanthropy$6,000Recreation & Sports$5,000Education$4,000Health$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE TENNESSEE RIVER GORGE TRUST INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PISGAH CONSERVANCY: $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLULA LAKE LAND TRUST: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN OFF ROAD BICYCLE ASSOCIATION NC CHAPTER PISGAH AREA: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHATT FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSORBA CHATTANOOGA TN CHAPTER: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHATTANOOGA BOYS CHOIR: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGallatin River Task Force: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST THINGS FIRST INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIES CHILDREN AND ADULTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHATTANOOGA ROOM IN THE INN INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFESPRING COMMUNITY HEALTH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Sky Rotary Foundation: $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.

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.

Chattanooga Christian…Benwood Foundation IncRobert F Stone Founda…The Community Foundat…Weldon F Osborne Foun…The Maclellan Foundat…Lillian L Colby Chari…The Chrysalis Foundat…Hazel Montague Hutche…Robert L & Kathrina H…Tucker FoundationUnited Way of Greater…
Chattanooga Christian Community FoundationTN29.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Hartley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hartley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 28 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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