Tennessee · Nonprofit
Chattanooga Cares Inc
Chattanooga Cares Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,136,144 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($1,202,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $61M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $32M
What Chattanooga Cares Inc does
Mission
Cempa community care's mission is to champion healthy communities by providing affordable, compassionate, and high quality care through advancing comprehensive support services and person-centered best practices. Leading the way in care for people living with hiv for thirty three years, cempa community care has expanded to become a community health center to help all people fight all illnesses. Cempa provides treatment, prevention, and support services to those impacted by health disparities with a focus on primary and infections disease care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Clinic services: with a focus in primary and infectious disease care, the cempa community care clinic offers a full range of services including primary and infectious disease care, nutritional counseling, mental health counseling, laboratory services, and health maintenance for preventative care.
$40,985,472 spent$57,506,232 earned by the program91% of program spendingClient services: support services coordinates a comprehensive continuum of care that encompasses social support necessary to assist clients in obtaining an optimum of care. This can be done by providing, coordinating, and assuring social support necessary to assist clients in maintaining their prespective health, safety, and well-being.
$2,251,598 spent5% of program spendingDenatal services: cempa dentists and dental hygienists provide specialized services and treatment in a state-of-the-art facility and relaxed setting.
$971,062 spent2% of program spendingEducation services: prevention, education, and outreach services partners with over sixty agencies and organizations to provide testing, education, and outreach to champion healthy communities and to help prevent the spread of infectious disease in our community. Syringe trade & education (part of prevention) is a harm reduction and education program for injection drug users developed by cempa community care. Step tn is designed to reduce the spread of hiv, hcv, and other bloddborne infections, as well as provide safe disposal of needles and syringes.
$788,066 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $44,996,198.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $28M to $41M (+44%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 19% · 2019 11% · 2020 8% · 2021 12% · 2022 6% · 2023 7% · 2024 5% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Dr Shannon Burger
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Arch Trimble IV
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $207k → $51k.
7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Chattanooga Cares Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Chattanooga Cares Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Chattanooga Cares Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 82% · 2019 87% · 2020 63% · 2021 41% · 2022 47% · 2023 65% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of Chattanooga Cares Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
84% of Chattanooga Cares Inc's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $294k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding Chattanooga Cares Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$4.4M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Chattanooga Cares Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Chattanooga Cares Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Chattanooga Cares Inc?
- Chattanooga Cares Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,136,144 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($1,202,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Chattanooga Cares Inc have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $2,136,144 in grants to Chattanooga Cares Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Chattanooga Cares Inc?
- UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,202,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Chattanooga Cares Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing