Tennessee · Private foundation
Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 85
- Grants FY2025
- 77
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 73 to 82
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $24M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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 | 74 | $1.2M | 14% |
| FY2024 | 77 | $1.1M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 80 | $1.1M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 82 | $1.2M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 73 | $880k | 34% |
| FY2020 | 73 | $890k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bryan College | $290,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Bethel Bible Village | $206,650 | 6 | 1% |
| Public School Bible Study Committee | $179,755 | 6 | 1% |
| Volunteers in Medicine Chattanooga Inc | $169,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Nonprofit Resource Center | $162,500 | 3 | 24% |
| Memorial Health Care System Foundation Inc | $156,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Girls Preparatory School Inc | $140,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Partnership for Families Children and Adults Inc | $130,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Lifespring Community Health | $115,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Chattanooga Inc | $114,500 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 111 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 99 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: Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · Benwood Foundation Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Hamico Inc · United Way of Greater Chattanooga · McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation · Tucker Foundation · Lillian L Colby Charitable Fdn Ia · Schillhahn-Huskey Foundation
How this is measured
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About Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc
- How much does Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc give?
- Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc reported 85 grants totaling $1,352,424 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 73 and 82 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (18%), Philanthropy (17%), Education (16%).
- Who are Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Bryan College ($291k), Bethel Bible Village ($207k), Public School Bible Study Committee ($180k).
- Does Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation, The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc, Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation.
- Where is Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc based?
- Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc is based in TN.
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