Tennessee · Public charity
United Way of Greater Chattanooga
Uniting people and resources in building a stronger, healthier community
- $4.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 78
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 82
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $4.0M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $27,174
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $275,900
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 82
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $33M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations United Way of Greater Chattanooga funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $618k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 78 | $4.0M | 1% |
| FY2024 | 82 | $4.1M | 28% |
| FY2023 | 61 | $4.6M | 54% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $4.8M | 7% |
| FY2021 | 60 | $3.9M | 43% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $4.5M | 17% |
| FY2019 | 42 | $4.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partnership for Families Children & Adults | $3,743,799 | 7 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Chattanooga Inc | $2,251,042 | 7 | 18% |
| Northside Neighborhood House | $1,958,954 | 7 | 13% |
| Chambliss Center for Children | $1,653,969 | 7 | 3% |
| The Orange Grove Center Inc | $1,506,048 | 7 | 1% |
| Girls Inc of Chattanooga | $1,385,949 | 7 | 26% |
| Signal Centers Inc | $1,311,685 | 7 | 2% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Chattanooga | $1,226,675 | 7 | 1% |
| Helen Ross McNabb Center Inc | $1,203,400 | 5 | 1% |
| Cherokee Area Council Incorporated Boy Scouts of America | $1,161,435 | 7 | 32% |
Show all 132 grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
United Way of Greater Chattanooga supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 101 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Benwood Foundation Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Lillian L Colby Charitable Fdn Ia · Memorial Health Care System Inc · Hamico Inc · George R Johnson Family Foundation
How this is measured
About United Way of Greater Chattanooga
- How much does United Way of Greater Chattanooga give?
- United Way of Greater Chattanooga reported 78 itemized grants totaling $3,984,241, out of $4,765,435 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 82 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does United Way of Greater Chattanooga fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (27%), Human Services (24%), Health (21%).
- Who are United Way of Greater Chattanooga's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Partnership for Families Children & Adults ($3.7M), Boys and Girls Clubs of Chattanooga Inc ($2.3M), Northside Neighborhood House ($2.0M).
- Does United Way of Greater Chattanooga fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Greater Chattanooga?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc, Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation, Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc.
- Where is United Way of Greater Chattanooga based?
- United Way of Greater Chattanooga is based in TN.
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