· Public charity
United Way of Greater Chattanooga
Uniting people and resources in building a stronger, healthier community
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k49 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k22 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+2 grants · $529k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Partnership for Families Children & Adults | $275,900 |
| Northside Neighborhood House | $252,801 |
| Chambliss Center for Children | $231,212 |
| Boys and Girls Club | $198,782 |
| Girls Incorporated | $182,153 |
| LA PAZ | $156,173 |
| Signal Centers Inc | $137,529 |
| YMCA | $125,706 |
| CHATTANOOGA AREA FOOD BANK | $110,431 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters | $109,134 |
| Chattanooga Chamber Foundation | $103,500 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA | $92,069 |
| THE BETHLEHEM CENTER | $81,879 |
| Chattanooga Goodwill Industries | $78,243 |
| The AIM Center Inc | $77,758 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $5.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 20% of United Way of Greater Chattanooga’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in TN; by stated purpose, 77%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.
91 repeat relationships: 77 still active in FY2025, 14 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +77%
- NNNORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE7× · 2019–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +107%
- CCCHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN7× · 2019–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +69%
Funded once
- FCFORTWOOD CENTER INCone grant, 2019 · $201k
- PPPURPOSE POINT COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTERone grant, 2023 · $135k · revenue -45%
- AHAUSTIN HATCHER FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC CANCERone grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue -8%
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.
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.
Uniting people and resources in building a stronger, healthier community
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Providing services to clients to assist in preventing homelessness, training partner organizations on reporting system and reporting to governments, statistical information.
Chattanooga design studio seeks to elevate the quality of life for all citizens through guidance, collaboration, innovation, and education that promotes livable, accessible, walkable, and humane urban design.
The united way of south central tennessee's mission is to improve lives by advancing opportunities for education, health, and financial stability for all. its vision is to be the primary community solutions leader for human services.
Provide advocacy for abused and neglected children in juvenile court.
Volunteer East Tennessee inspires service by equipping organizations and mobilizing volunteers to connect with one another and strengthen communities.
Encourage economic development
Invest chattanooga uses flexible, low-cost capital and strategic public-private partnerships to produce financially sustainable, mixed-income housing with deep permanent affordability that the market alone cannot deliver.
Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…
The we care mission is to serve economically disadvantaged residents of rhea county, tn by enabling them to help themselves. (offering a hand up not a hand out)
To be the voice for children who have been victims of abuse and/or neglect. Our vision is to serve every child in the Cheaha Region by providing them with a caring and competent trained volunteer.
How this is measured
103 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 103 of the 136 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds SIGNAL CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds HELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL INCORPORATED BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Goodwill Industries Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CATOOSA ↗
- Who funds THE AIM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LA PAZ DE DIOS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA ROOM IN THE INN INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds LITTLE MISS MAG EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA AREA INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT RETURN INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESPRING COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds LAUNCH INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ACADEMY FOR EDUCATION AND LEARNING ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CRISIS CENTER OF WALKER DADE CATOOSA& CHATTOOGA COINC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds GREENSPACES INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR ALCOHOL & DRUG ABUSE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHEAST TENNESS ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PRO RE BONA EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds PURPOSE POINT COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN HATCHER FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC CANCER ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Way of Greater Chattanooga funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Greater Chattanooga. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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