· Public charity
United Way of the Ocoee Region
To be a community-based organization that leads the efforts in identifying community needs, facilitating collaboration, and maximizing resources to positively impact our community and surrounding areas.
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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k18 grants · $362k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $996k
- $250k+1 grant · $410k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KARIS COMMUNITY HEALTH | $410,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE OCOEE REGION | $238,000 |
| THE CARING PLACE | $177,000 |
| CITY FIELDS | $150,000 |
| FAMILY RESOURCE AGENCY | $100,000 |
| YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHATTANOOGA | $90,000 |
| BRADLEY CLEVELAND PUBLIC | $70,000 |
| LEGAL AID OF EAST TN | $66,000 |
| COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADV | $55,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $50,000 |
| THE HOPE CENTER INC | $48,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE | $35,000 |
| LUDIC SPECTRUM CENTER | $29,937 |
| BRADLEY PREVENTION COALITION | $22,400 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA | $20,000 |
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 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
49 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- KCKARIS COMMUNITY HEALTH7× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +129% · 87% of their budget
- TCTHE CARING PLACE8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +326% · 29% of their budget
- CFCITY FIELDS8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue ×31 · 59% of their budget
Funded once
- CSCLEVELAND STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $250k
- LLUDICone grant, 2017 · $68k
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2017 · $59k
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.
Provide advocacy for abused and neglected children in juvenile court.
Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation
To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.
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…
Family promise of greater chattanooga's mission is to provide help for homeless families with children be housed and self-sufficient.
Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling
To advocate for people who are homless or near homeless, strategically planning for housing and services in the community, maximizing resources and collaboarating with community partners to implement housing and services within the…
To coordinate a collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach to child abuse cases. To provide private forensic interviews and medical exams in a child-friendly environment.
To facilitate ethical stewardship of philanthropic resources by helping connect those resources with the needs of cleveland and bradley county.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Covenant Care Services, Inc. is a non-profit faith-based adoption agency serving birthmothers and adoptive families in the state of Georgia. The Organization counsels women experiencing unplanned pregancy and educates them about the option…
To equip men to initiate and lead for christ in their homes, churches, communities and the marketplace.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Caring Place and the most unlike its peers is CareEQUIP. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 72 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 KARIS COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE CARING PLACE ↗
- Who funds CITY FIELDS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE OCOEE REGION ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND EMERGENCY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds LUDIC SPECTRUM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds ON POINT ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds CHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL INCORPORATED BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY CLEVELAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCOEE OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds Family Cornerstones Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEALTH OPPORTUNITY PROTECTION & ENCOURAGEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF BRADLEY COUNTY TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF BRADLEY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LEE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CareEQUIP ↗
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: Tucker Foundation · Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · George R Johnson Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Chattanooga · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Benwood Foundation Inc · Tennessee Health Foundation Inc · The Bob & Susan Card Charitable Foundation · The McReynolds Family Foundation · McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie 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 United Way of the Ocoee Region 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.