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Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
85
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Health$1.3MPhilanthropy$1.3MEducation$1.2MHuman Services$946kReligion$596kYouth Development$589kHousing & Shelter$365kCommunity Improvement$290kOther$0
02FY2025 · 85 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $126k
  • $10k–50k49 grants · $774k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $453k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GENEROSITY TRUST THE$100,000
UC FOUNDATION INC$83,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA$69,592
THE NONPROFIT RESOURCE CENTER$50,000
CHATTANOOGA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$50,000
ERLANGER HEALTH$50,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIES CHILDREN AND ADULTS INC$50,000
BETHEL BIBLE VILLAGE$35,000
LIFESPRING COMMUNITY HEALTH$30,000
PUBLIC SCHOOL BIBLE STUDY COMMITTEE$30,000
BRYAN COLLEGE$30,000
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CHATTANOOGA INC$30,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
CHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN$25,000
CHI MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $719k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%STREET GRACE INC: $15k → 9%STREET GRACE INC: $10k → 9%HAMILTON COUNTY COALITION: $20k → 12%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $20k → 14%LOVE WITHOUT REASON: $10k → 12%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $17k → 14%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $15k → 14%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $15k → 14%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $5k → 12%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $5k → 12%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $5k → 12%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $5k → 12%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $10k → 14%SHEPHERD'S ARMS RESCUE MISSION: $30k → 12%SHEPHERD'S ARMS RESCUE MISSION: $25k → 12%SHEPHERD'S ARMS RESCUE MISSION: $25k → 12%SHEPHERD'S ARMS RESCUE MISSION: $20k → 12%SHEPHERD'S ARMS RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 12%SHEPHERD'S ARMS RESCUE MISSION: $4k → 12%AIM CENTER INC: $10k → 12%THE AIM CENTER INC: $3k → 12%THE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT: $15k → 12%THE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT: $15k → 12%THE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT: $15k → 12%THE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT: $10k → 12%THE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT: $10k → 12%CHILDREN'S NUTRITION PROGRAM OF HAITI: $1k → 12%ORANGE GROVE CENTER: $15k → 12%ORANGE GROVE CENTER: $15k → 12%ORANGE GROVE CENTER: $15k → 12%CHILDREN'S NUTRITION PROGRAM OF HAITI: $3k → 12%FIRST BAPTIST CARES: $10k → 12%BETHEL BIBLE VILLAGE: $36k → 12%BETHEL BIBLE VILLAGE: $36k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA: $10k → 12%BETHEL BIBLE VILLAGE: $35k → 12%FIRST BAPTIST CARES: $10k → 12%BETHEL BIBLE VILLAGE: $35k → 12%BETHEL BIBLE VILLAGE: $35k → 12%BETHEL BIBLE VILLAGE: $30k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA: $5k → 12%HOPE FOR THE INNER CITY: $30k → 12%HOPE FOR THE INNER CITY: $30k → 12%HOPE FOR THE INNER CITY: $15k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.8M · 96 repeat orgs$588k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

96 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

96
50

Total granted

$5.8M
$449k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+11%

Still filing today

76%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthReligionCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther

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

  • BB
    Bethel Bible Village
    6× · 2020–2025 · $207k · revenue +31%
  • PS
    PUBLIC SCHOOL BIBLE STUDY COMMITTEE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $180k · revenue +68%
  • VI
    VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CHATTANOOGA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $169k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • BO
    BASILICA OF STS PETER AND PAUL
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • BC
    BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION WORKFORCE CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -96%
  • Y
    YMCA
    one grant, 2023 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Chattanooga Regional Homeless Coalition Inc

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…

Community Improvement
2
Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise

Mission: to create economically diverse neighborhoods filled with financially empowered citizens and housing for all.vision: all chattanoogans can afford a safe place in a strong neighborhood to call home. belief: we believe the future of…

Housing & Shelter
3
Chattanooga Design Studio

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.

Community Improvement
4
Chattanooga Technology Council Inc

Our mission is to connect chattanooga's technology sector to drive regional economic growth.

Community Improvement
5
Christ Led Communities Inc Formerly Christian Leadership Concepts

To equip men to initiate and lead for christ in their homes, churches, communities and the marketplace.

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6
Invest Chattanooga

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.

Housing & Shelter
7
Campbell County Christian Academy Inc

To partner with families in providing students a christ-centered and academically challenging education equipping them with a biblical worldview as they grow in understandings, attitudes, skills, and in favor with god and man.

Education
8
Carter Street Corporation

Encourage economic development

Community Improvement
9
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
10
Tennesseans for Quality Early Education

To advance state policies and practices that ensure all tennessee children from birth through 3rd grade get the high quality early education they need to power our state's future.

Education
11
Chattanooga Chamber Foundation

Education regarding matters of public concern to improve the quality and increase the quantity of economic growth and employment opportunities.

Philanthropy
12
Tennessee Valley Coalition to End Homelessness Inc

Providing services to clients to assist in preventing homelessness, training partner organizations on reporting system and reporting to governments, statistical information.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gaining Ground. 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 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr16%11%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr12%19%20–35yr16%28%35–55yr14%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr16%5%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr12%21%20–35yr16%20%35–55yr14%39%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/113
the rest of the field
14%
259/1,804

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.

04the grantee network

107 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. 107 of the 158 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/107
Grantees still filing
76/107
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UC FOUNDATION INC — $222,500 · OtherUC FOUNDATION INCMEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC — $156,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC — $114,500 · OtherNATIONAL CENTER FOR YOUTH ISSUES — $114,000 · OtherCHATTANOOGA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $100,584 · Other+91 more — $2,309,250 · Other+91 moreCHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $557,316 · PhilanthropyCHATTANOOGA CHRIS…The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc — $450,522 · PhilanthropyThe Community Fou…AUSTIN HATCHER FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC CANCER — $70,000 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN HATCHER FO…UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA — $65,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GRE…+2 more — $15,500 · PhilanthropyBRYAN COLLEGE — $290,500 · EducationBRYAN COLLEGEPUBLIC SCHOOL BIBLE STUDY COMMITTEE — $179,755 · EducationPUBLIC SCHOOL BI…GIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $140,000 · EducationGIRLS PREPARATOR…SKYUKA HALL — $95,564 · EducationSKYUKA HALLTeach for America Inc — $70,000 · EducationTeach for Americ…CHATTANOOGA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $63,650 · EducationCHATTANOOGA STAT…CHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $40,000 · EducationCHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC — $37,000 · Education+8 more — $150,500 · Education+8 moreBethel Bible Village — $206,650 · Human ServicesBethel Bible V…Nonprofit Resource Center — $162,500 · Human ServicesNonprofit Reso…THE SHEPHERD'S ARMS RESCUE MISSION INC — $114,000 · Human ServicesTHE SHEPHERD'S…NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $87,000 · Human ServicesNORTHSIDE NEIG…HOPE FOR THE INNER CITY INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesHOPE FOR THE I…THE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT — $65,000 · Human ServicesTHE HAPPY SHOE…KINGDOM PARTNERS — $50,000 · Human ServicesKINGDOM PARTNE…THE ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC — $45,000 · Human Services+8 more — $126,000 · Human Services+8 moreVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CHATTANOOGA INC — $169,000 · HealthVOLUNTEERS I…LIFESPRING COMMUNITY HEALTH — $115,000 · HealthLIFESPRING C…WELCOME HOME OF CHATTANOOGA — $107,000 · HealthWELCOME HOME…CHATTANOOGA AUTISM CENTER INC — $65,000 · HealthCHATTANOOGA …ON POINT — $60,000 · HealthON POINTFIRST THINGS FIRST INC — $55,000 · HealthFIRST THINGS…ERLANGER HEALTH — $50,000 · HealthERLANGER HEA…SISKIN HOSPITAL FOR PHYSICAL REHABILITATION INC — $47,500 · HealthSISKIN HOSPI…A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION CHATTANOOGA INC — $42,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER CH — $35,000 · HealthTHE LAUNCH PAD — $30,000 · Health+3 more — $20,000 · HealthPARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIES CHILDREN AND ADULTS INC — $130,000 · Community ImprovementLAUNCH INC — $35,000 · Community ImprovementBUILDING & CONSTRUCTION WORKFORCE CENTER — $25,000 · Community ImprovementURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA — $20,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ENTERPRISE CENTER INC — $12,500 · Community ImprovementTHE GREATER CHATTANOOGA PUBLIC TELEVISION CORPORATION — $60,000 · Arts & CultureARTSBUILD — $60,000 · Arts & CultureCreative Discovery Museum — $39,980 · Arts & CultureTHE TIVOLI THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,016,834Philanthropy$1,158,338Education$1,066,969Human Services$931,150Health$795,500Community Improvement$222,500Arts & Culture$174,980

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $557,316 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc — $450,522 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBRYAN COLLEGE — $290,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBethel Bible Village — $206,650 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetPUBLIC SCHOOL BIBLE STUDY COMMITTEE — $179,755 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CHATTANOOGA INC — $169,000 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetNonprofit Resource Center — $162,500 over 3y, 24% of budgetMEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC — $156,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetGIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $140,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIES CHILDREN AND ADULTS INC — $130,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetLIFESPRING COMMUNITY HEALTH — $115,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC — $114,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR YOUTH ISSUES — $114,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SHEPHERD'S ARMS RESCUE MISSION INC — $114,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetWELCOME HOME OF CHATTANOOGA — $107,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetSKYUKA HALL — $95,564 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $87,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE FOR THE INNER CITY INC — $75,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetCHATTANOOGA ROOM IN THE INN INC — $73,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetSIGNAL CENTERS INC — $71,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN HATCHER FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC CANCER — $70,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCHATT FOUNDATION — $69,375 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetLOOKOUT MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY — $68,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetGIRLS INC OF CHATTANOOGA — $67,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $66,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT — $65,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA AREA INC — $65,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCHATTANOOGA AUTISM CENTER INC — $65,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA — $65,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHATTANOOGA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $63,650 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc — $62,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetON POINT — $60,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTHE GREATER CHATTANOOGA PUBLIC TELEVISION CORPORATION — $60,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA — $60,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetARTSBUILD — $60,000 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetTHE SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER — $58,748 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetFIRST THINGS FIRST INC — $55,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetKINGDOM PARTNERS — $50,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetERLANGER HEALTH — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC — $48,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSISKIN HOSPITAL FOR PHYSICAL REHABILITATION INC — $47,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ORANGE GROVE CENTER INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION CHATTANOOGA INC — $42,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCreative Discovery Museum — $39,980 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSCORE INTERNATIONAL INC — $37,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC — $37,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
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 CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc ↗
  • Who funds BRYAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Bethel Bible Village ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC SCHOOL BIBLE STUDY COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CHATTANOOGA INC ↗
  • Who funds Nonprofit Resource Center ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIES CHILDREN AND ADULTS INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFESPRING COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR YOUTH ISSUES ↗
  • Who funds THE SHEPHERD'S ARMS RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds WELCOME HOME OF CHATTANOOGA ↗
  • Who funds SKYUKA HALL ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FOR THE INNER CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHATTANOOGA ROOM IN THE INN INC ↗
  • Who funds SIGNAL CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN HATCHER FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC CANCER ↗
  • Who funds CHATT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INC OF CHATTANOOGA ↗
  • Who funds CHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds THE HAPPY SHOES PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA AREA INC ↗
  • Who funds CHATTANOOGA AUTISM CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA ↗
  • Who funds CHATTANOOGA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
  • Who funds ON POINT ↗

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.

Chattanooga Christian…The Community Foundat…Robert L & Kathrina H…Robert F Stone Founda…Benwood Foundation IncThe Maclellan Foundat…Hamico IncUnited Way of Greater…McKenzie Foundation D…Tucker FoundationLillian L Colby Chari…Schillhahn-Huskey Fou…
Chattanooga Christian Community FoundationTN129.6× affinity74 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    43report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 158 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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