Tennessee · Nonprofit
WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA
WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $194,321 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($40,550). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $173k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $194k
- Net assets
- $689k
What Women's Fund of Greater Chattanooga does
Mission
To improve the lives of women and girls in our region by driving social change, providing opportunity and promoting economic self-sufficiency through education and advocacy, empowered philanthropy, collective partnerships, and strategic grantmaking.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Grant making: the women's fund's collective philanthropy arm, the nightingale network, awarded $10,000 to a step ahead chattanooga. A step ahead seeks to remove barriers to contraception through education, outreach, and access to birth control. They will use the grant to expand their spanish appointment line, ensuring equitable and continued access to free birth control. We also granted $3,626 each to beloved woman and young ladies of power to support their missions. The heard also received a $500 grant.
$62,084 spentof which $17,752 as grants37% of program spendingCollaboration: continued to work with partners across the state to eliminate the barriers to women and girls. Partners include awake tennessee; chattanooga mayor's council for women; a step ahead chattanooga; partnership for families, children and adults; children's advocacy center; healthy and free tennessee; and a better balance. We continued the work of the tennessee women's fund alliance and coordinated our 2nd bold and brave day on the hill.
$43,921 spent26% of program spendingAdvocacy: the women's fund researches issues, writes legislation and supports legislation, follows the legislative work of the general assembly, creates a legislative priority list, and issues calls to action on bills. This year, we continued our work to improve the status of women and girls in tennessee. Eleven bills on our priority list passed, and we held off challenges to past gains and a number of effots that would have ultimately harmed women and children in our community. We saw successes with important pieces of legislation such as the ability for child protection teams to share information and the ability to create additional safe baby courts in the state, and we supported the creation of a safe baby court in hamilton county. We held our 2nd bold and brave day on the hill in nashiville, bringing women from our area as well as other areas in the state to nashville to engage in the legislative process, meet legislators, and learn about women's funds in tennessee as well as other advocacy organizations in the state. We also conducted an annual period product drive to stock the local school districts care closets at schools across the district as part of our period poverty…
$60,664 spent36% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $166,669.
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 2021 to 2022, from $511k to $651k (+27%).
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: 2021 19% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Melody Shekari
Executive director
Board chair
Stefanie Crowe
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $36k → $37k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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: $771k from 2 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 WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA raised.
From the IRS filings of WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA’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
WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
62% 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 WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 75% · 2019 100% · 2020 57% · 2021 71% · 2022 37% · 2023 73% — growing more concentrated.
“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
43% of WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $93k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA
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
46% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA?
- WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $194,321 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($40,550). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $194,321 in grants to WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $40,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA 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 13 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