· Private foundation
The Maclellan Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
74% of The Maclellan Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to International Generosity Foundation Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 84 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Maclellan Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 177 organizations, $22M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k101 grants · $272k
- $10k–50k134 grants · $3.1M
- $50k–250k86 grants · $8.7M
- $250k+22 grants · $9.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA THE GENEROSITY TRUST | $1,400,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA THE GENEROSITY TRUST | $1,100,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA THE GENEROSITY TRUST | $750,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $600,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $420,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $400,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA THE GENEROSITY TRUST | $400,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA THE GENEROSITY TRUST | $390,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $350,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA THE GENEROSITY TRUST | $350,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $325,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST | $300,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC | $300,000 |
| VISION COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL | $300,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST | $289,055 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% 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 +48% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
308 repeat relationships — 159 still active in FY2023, 149 since wound down; 71 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.3M 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
- VCVision Communications International6× · 2017–2023 · $2.2M · revenue +185% · 42% of their budget
- PPPREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS7× · 2018–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +541%
- SGSTRATEGIC GLOBAL ASSISTANCE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +56%
Funded once
- GTGENEROSITY TRUST THE CHATTANOOGAone grant, 2018 · $5.6M
- GTGENEROSITY TRUST THE CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $5.1M
- FPFRONT PORCH ALLIANCEone grant, 2018 · $300k
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Downside Up Inc. 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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
408 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. 408 of the 594 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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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: International Generosity Foundation Trust · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Hugh and Charlotte Maclellan Charitable Charitable Trust · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · First Fruit Inc · Tyndale House Ministries · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · G II Charities · Gordon Christian Trust · Benwood Foundation Inc
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 Maclellan 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% 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.
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