Tennessee · Nonprofit
CHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND
CHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND (Tennessee) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,658,091 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($2,868,575). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $8.7M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Chattanoogahamilton County Public Education Fund does
Mission
To improve student achievement in public schools through highly effective teaching, strong leadership, and strategic partnerships so that children succeed in learning and in life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Project inspire - project inspire is a rigorous teacher preparation program that blends graduate level course work with a classroom apprenticeship and one-on-one coaching with a highly effective teacher in a high-needs classroom. Our residents come from various backgrounds with a focus on science, technology, engineering, or math. Our teacher residency programs provide practical learning, hands-on experience, and a support network teachers need to be sucessful.
$922,210 spentof which $367,977 as grants29% of program spendingGateway scholars (cams) - gateway scholars is a mentorship program that pairs high school students with college advancement mentors (cams) who support the students to and through college success. Cams provide tailored services to students as they transition to college, promoting self-advocacy, a growth mindset, and academic, social, and emotional learning.
$705,253 spentof which $4,402 as grants22% of program spendingVw elabs - the vw elabs program has placed high-tech learning labs in 35 hamilton county schools to date. These labs provide unique opportunities for the development and implementation of problem-based learning curricula.
$667,574 spentof which $386,985 as grants21% of program spendingOther program services - step-up, blue sky, stem, innovative educator, camp college and other programs designed to provide professional development to teachers and school administrators with a focus on improving student achievement.
$910,316 spentof which $189,470 as grants$10,189 earned by the program28% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,205,353.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $17M to $21M (+21%).
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 4% · 2018 12% · 2019 15% · 2020 19% · 2021 30% · 2022 6% · 2023 32% · 2024 15% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of CHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
John F Germ
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 10 funders, grant income fell $718k → $534k.
8 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.4M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of CHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
CHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 87% · 2019 70% · 2020 68% · 2021 43% · 2022 57% · 2023 51% — 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
30% of CHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
57% of CHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $363k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
CHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND's revenue fell 55% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 CHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: 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 CHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND?
- CHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND (Tennessee) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,658,091 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($2,868,575). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $8,658,091 in grants to CHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,868,575 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND 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.
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 29 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