Tennessee · Private foundation
Tucker Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $4.3M
- Granted FY2022
- 77
- Grants FY2022
- 76
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2022
Read this first · the figures below need context
52% of Tucker Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Of Greater Chattanooga Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 54 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Tucker Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 56 organizations, $4M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2022
- $11,500
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $817,819
- Organizations funded a year
- 65 to 76
- FY2020 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 10
- Total assets, FY2022
- $69M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 26% of the organizations Tucker Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $498k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 76 | $3.5M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 71 | $3.3M | 55% |
| FY2020 | 65 | $1.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| On Point | $1,054,974 | 5 | 22% |
| The Young Women's Leadership Academy Foundation Inc | $500,011 | 2 | 8% |
| Open Space Institute Land Trust Inc | $500,011 | 2 | 1% |
| Lookout Mountain Conservancy | $482,318 | 5 | 13% |
| The Tennessee River Gorge Trust Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 16% |
| The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc | $260,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Lee University | $251,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The New Museum at the Bradford Brinton Ranch | $230,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Chattanooga Christian School Inc | $217,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Bradley Cleveland Public Education Foundation | $209,282 | 5 | 7% |
Show all 113 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 60 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Tucker Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 104 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Benwood Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · George R Johnson Family Foundation · Hamico Inc · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation · Lillian L Colby Charitable Fdn Ia
How this is measured
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About Tucker Foundation
- How much does Tucker Foundation give?
- Tucker Foundation reported 77 grants totaling $4,326,542 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 65 and 76 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
- What does Tucker Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (30%), Environment (14%), Education (13%).
- Who are Tucker Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: On Point ($1.1M), The Young Women's Leadership Academy Foundation Inc ($500k), Open Space Institute Land Trust Inc ($500k).
- Does Tucker Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tucker Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Tucker Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation, Benwood Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc.
- Where is Tucker Foundation based?
- Tucker Foundation is based in TN.
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