Tennessee · Private foundation
Wayside Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $57k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $21,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 16
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $118k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Wayside Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 17 | $57k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $53k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $56k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $50k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $78k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $39k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clear Creek Church of Christ | $37,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Bethel Bible Village | $16,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Public School Bible Study Committee | $14,850 | 6 | 0% |
| First Presbyterian Church | $9,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Mastermedia International Inc | $7,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Grace School of Theology | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Lifespring Community Health | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Blazing Hope Ranch | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| First Baptist Church | $3,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Chattanooga Room in the Inn Inc | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($229k), not named here.
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 · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Wayside Foundation
- How much does Wayside Foundation give?
- Wayside Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $56,850 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Wayside Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (61%), Education (27%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are Wayside Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Clear Creek Church of Christ ($37k), Bethel Bible Village ($16k), Public School Bible Study Committee ($15k).
- Does Wayside Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wayside Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wayside Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation, Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation, Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc.
- Where is Wayside Foundation based?
- Wayside Foundation is based in TN.
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