· Public charity
The Shepherd's Arms Rescue Mission Inc
Primary purpose is to present jesus christ to the homeless, unemployed, and destitute community of chattanooga's inner city and around the world; to provide education which re-defines self worth according to biblical principles; to offer temporary shelter, physical food, and christian counseling until clients can be integrated back into…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $77,345 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $80,494 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,149 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEHEMIAH PROJECT | $6,185 |
| WIDOW'S HARVEST MINISTRY | $5,930 |
| SCENIC CITY WOMEN'S NETWORK | $5,930 |
| PROJECT FREE 2 FLY | $5,930 |
| HARVEST CHRISTIAN ACADEMY FOR THE DEAF | $5,930 |
| CENTERS OF HOPE | $5,930 |
| THE REDEMPTION PROJECT | $5,930 |
| PROJECT 52 | $5,930 |
| MINISTRY TO ISRAEL | $5,930 |
| NHC HEALTHCARE ACTIVITY DEPT | $5,930 |
| 1040 CONNECTIONS | $5,930 |
| CITY CHURCH OF CHATTANOOGA | $5,930 |
| TIMOTHY TWO PROJECT INTERNATIONAL | $5,930 |
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 (FY20–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +27% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- SCSCENIC CITY WOMEN'S NETWORK6× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +116%
- P5PROJECT 526× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +6%
- 1C1040 CONNECTIONS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- HFHOLDING FORTH THE WORD OF LIFE INCone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -2%
- TSTWELVE SPRINGS INCone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -70%
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.
Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Religious
Conducts daily devotional services and sponsors religious projects in developing countries.
Religious Purposes
Reaching Out To The Nations' mission is to both preach and demonstrate the love of Go through its projects and programs which include preaching, food distribution, widow and orphan assistance and leadership training.
Proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ worldwide
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holding Forth the Word of Life Inc and the most unlike its peers is Epos International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 18 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 KNOXVILLE DREAM CENTER ↗
- Who funds SCENIC CITY WOMEN'S NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 52 ↗
- Who funds Widows Harvest Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds 1040 CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTERS OF HOPE MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE REDEMPTION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Timothy Two Project International ↗
- Who funds EPOS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds REFORMED EVANGELISTIC FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds FREE 2 FLY INC ↗
- Who funds HOLDING FORTH THE WORD OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds TWELVE SPRINGS INC ↗
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 · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Shepherd's Arms Rescue Mission 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.
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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